2007 – Page 263

Semana Santa, or Holy Week is almost here and the Ministry of Public Health is getting ready. Beginning on 4 April and ending 8 April, the Ministry will have 60,000 ambulances available for the public and is preparing an emergency plan for the peak week of domestic vacation travel. Juan Rodriguez, director of Emergencies and …

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For the last 15 days the Colonial Zone has been receiving a makeover as workers continue to clean up the area. Listin Diario writes that the beggars commonly seen around the historic city center have been cleared out and palm trees have been planted around of some of the monuments and sites. Many buildings have …

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The Minister of Commerce and Industry and the president of the National Council of Industrial Free Zones for Exports have inked an agreement to build two new free zones with an investment of RD$300 million. Francisco Javier Garcia and Luisa Fernandez signed the agreement during the regular session of the free zone council. The two …

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Pope Benedict XVI has invited chief Central Electoral Board (JCE) judge Julio Cesar Castanos Guzman to attend the V General Episcopal Conference of Latin American and Caribbean bishops. The conference will be held in Apreciada, Brazil in May. The invitation comes from the Pontifical Commission for Latin America, and points out that the Apreciada Conference …

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The government has sent a legislative proposal to Congress for the issue of a US$40 million letter of credit for the companies that are to construct two coal-fired generation stations in the Dominican Republic. One station is planned for Azua and the other for Manzanillo. The CDEEE requested the letter of credit from the Minister …

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TCW, a US$132 billion capital management company and a subsidiary of the Societe Generale of France, issued a press release yesterday in Los Angeles, California, explaining why it was suing the Dominican Republic in the International Court of Arbitration in New York. According to Diario Libre, the lawsuit was filed on behalf of the EdeEste …

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Enrique Iglesias, the former head of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and currently the head of the Secretariat General for Ibero-America (SEGIB), told reporters from Diario Libre that the Dominican Republic should pay more attention to the small and medium businesses as a way of successfully fighting poverty. The successful fight against poverty, according to …

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Negotiations between labor representatives and business leaders are to continue after a four-hour meeting was adjourned last night with no conclusive outcome. A spokesperson for the labor sector, Rafael Abreu, said that while the business sector representatives did up their offer to increase the minimum wage, no decisions had been reached. Abreu said that the …

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The leaders of several of the transport unions were released on bail yesterday after spending long hours in jail. Complaining of “inhumane treatment” and visibly unhappy about their situation, the transport leaders vowed to continue their fight. Juan Hubieres, Antonio Marte Alfredo Pulinario and Ramon Perez Figuereo were held for questioning in connection with the …

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Official and private entities will begin discussing the policies that govern migration within the Dominican Republic. The idea is to create a clear-cut policy that can be included in the constitutional reform process that is now under way. The groups will also look at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights ruling that condemned the Dominican …

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