2007 – Page 272

San Diego Chargers star lineman, Dominican Luis Castillo will be hosting a football clinic at the Juan Pablo Duarte Olympic Center on 14 March. The event is open to the public. Castillo is here on vacation and is taking the opportunity to share some of his football knowledge with young Dominican players. His visit comes …

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The Central Bank expects foreign students studying in the Dominican Republic to have spent upwards of US$70 million in the DR last year. This would be up from US$66 million in 2005. A poll carried out by the Bank’s research department in 2005 says these numbers almost equal the exports of coffee, cacao and tobacco …

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The Cave of Wonders Airport will use only renewable energy and ethanol fuels. The new facility being constructed in San Pedro de Macoris will cost between US$5 and US$6 million. Hoy newspaper says that Max Shauck, a US scientist and Alex Rood, the head of the Tecno Deah Consortium, reviewed the agreement signed between the …

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Small businessmen are asking the tax authorities to collect VAT and other taxes on a quarterly basis rather than the monthly collections now in force. Recent changes in the tax regimen have forced small businesses to work wonders with limited economic resources. The greatest problem facing the small entrepreneur is the monthly VAT payment on …

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Monsignor Agripino Nunez Collado has issued a call for a negotiated settlement to the current crisis between the workforce and employers on the proposed increase in the minimum wage. The good Monsignor has been called in to mediate the impasse, and the hope is that some sort of a deal can now be worked out. …

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The Electricity Distributor for the East (EdeEste) has issued a public complaint calling attention to the fact that the electricity cables along the Las Americas Expressway have been stolen to the extent that barely 2% of the highway is getting service. The Juan Bosch Bridge was left without much electricity after vandals stole over a …

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The National Transportation Federation (FENATRADO) has announced that as of today, their members will charge an additional 35% for hauling cargo in the Dominican Republic. During an interview with reporters from El Caribe, FENATRADO leader Blas Peralta said that his union had warned of a tariff increase two months ago and that the latest increases …

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Serious disruptions to public transport are expected today, particularly in San Juan de la Maguana and Elias Pina provinces, as well as in the eastern region. Some 8,000 vehicles are due to take part in the action. As reported in Hoy, FENATRANO and CONATRA union leaders Juan Hubieres and Antonio Marte made separate announcements about …

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AMET officers were putting their new toys to use over the weekend and personalities of all stripes were giving their views on the positive and negative aspects of the new policy. El Caribe reported that AMET officers, accompanied by Traffic Court prosecutors conducted a large number of tests on Friday night, detaining some and seizing …

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The Bishop of the Mao-Montecristi dioceses, Diomedes Espinal de Leon, complained over the weekend that the north west of the country was a forgotten area and that the army units in the frontier zone encourage the passage of undocumented Haitians, charging RD$50.00 for every illegal migrant who passes through their checkpoints. Espinal said that those …

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