2007 – Page 116

Temple University professor Rosario Espinal analyzes the changes in Dominican electioneering in Hoy today. She says that in politics there is always the big risk that pragmatism will annihilate idealism. She says that the PLD is now on this road, the same way as the PRD in the 80s, when it abandoned its democratic ideals …

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The chief magistrate of the Central Electoral Board, Julio Cesar Castanos Guzman, has asked the group of high ranking former officers of the Dominican Armed Forces to provide evidence that the government is planning to commit fraudulent acts during the upcoming elections. Castanos Guzman also predicted that the complaint filed by the Dominican Revolutionary Party …

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Oscar Pena Chacon, the new chief executive of the largest Dominican telecommunications company, Codetel, has praised the business climate in the DR and announced that this year the company would be investing US$250 million, in their first year of their operation of the former Verizon operation. As reported in El Caribe, the company is investing …

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In a 13 August release, TiVo says that the Dominican Republic Tourism brand has distinguished itself for making the TiVo Stop||Watch Commercial Rankings in the “Least Fast-Forwarded” list on multiple occasions. The DR made the top 5 of the list in May and again in June for its “inexhaustible” campaign. In the more recent June …

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Today’s Chicago Tribune focuses on how thousands of jobs are at risk in the DR because of US legislation that will hike taxes on cigars to help fund an expansion of children’s health insurance. The newspaper explains that a US$10 cigar would pay US$3 under the Senate bill. Producers in the DR, Nicaragua and Honduras …

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Prosecutor Francisco Garcia began to present the closing arguments for the state yesterday, representing the Superintendence of Banks and the Central Bank lawyers versus collapsed bank Baninter. Accusations and proof against Ramon Baez Figueroa, Marcos Baez Cocco, Vivian Lubrano, Jesus Maria Troncoso Ferrua and Luis Alvarez Renta were outlined in the first day of closing …

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Acting on a complaint from a Haitian woman, District prosecutor Jose Manuel Hernandez Peguero searched and closed a pornography website production happening in a city apartment. In the search, the prosecutors released 12 Haitian women who were allegedly performing in pornographic movies by German Lutz Robert Gunther Meyerding. The anonymous Haitian woman said she had …

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The National Drug Control Department (DNCD) and the Dominican Air Force have announced that they had found a burned out twin-engine airplane and 150 kilograms of cocaine in a field in Higuey, the capital of La Altagracia province. According to the report several people were being held for questioning. Colonel Guillermo Manueta, the DNCD head …

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President Leonel Fernandez has designated Major General Daysi Liriano Paulino as director of the auxiliary police, while Colonel Jose Ignacio Sandoval Cabrera was appointed to the post of director of the National Prisons Department. Sandoval replaces Juan Ramon de la Cruz Martinez, who was not reassigned to another post. General Franklin Vittini Duran was appointed …

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The Tax Department (DGII) will return RD$40 million to vehicle owners who renewed their license plates before President Leonel Fernandez suspended this year’s fee increase. Listin Diario explains that vehicle owners who have already paid for the renewal will receive checks that can be cashed ten days after Congress passes the bill. President Fernandez instructed …

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