2007 – Page 316

The pressure is on Licey tonight as their playoff destiny hangs in the balance. The teams are heading into the sixth game of the series finals and there is no clear-cut advantage on either side tonight. The Aguilas lead Licey three games to two in this best of nine series and as each game passes …

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President Leonel Fernandez has issued the necessary decrees appointing Vicente Bengoa and Temistocles Montas to the newly created ministries of Treasury (Hacienda) and Economy, Planning and Development (EPD). The decrees fulfill the requirement of Law 496-06. The new Ministry of Treasury replaces the Ministry of Finance, and the Ministry of Economy, Planning and Development is …

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The Armed Forces have a contingency plan ready for any problems that might arise from the transport strike that is planned for next Tuesday. Although there have been calls for halting the strike (see next story), so far the organizers have insisted that the strike will go on. Yesterday, the President’s press spokesperson, Rafael Nunez, …

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The government agencies connected with transportation and traffic control as well as the new Metro, OPRET, OMSA, the OTTT and AMET, are urging the unions to call off their strike, planned for 30 January. In a full-page ad in most of today’s papers, the government agencies list eleven activities by OPRET and its sister organizations …

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The Tax Department director (DGII), Juan Hernandez, says that the government tax agency would begin issuing license plates for all motorcycles and other two-wheeled motorized vehicles in the Dominican Republic. According to Diario Libre, the DGII does not even know how many of these vehicles there are in the country. He did say that the …

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Tax Department director Juan Hernandez has announced a RD$28.3 billion increase in tax collections for 2006. The director general of the department said that the DGII had raised its collections by 34% compared to 2005. In 2005 the tax office collected RD$82.2 billion and in 2006 collections totaled RD$110.5 billion. The DGII is forecasting a …

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The Dominican Republic is now officially an extra-regional partner and potential beneficiary of the Central American Bank for Economic Integration (BCIE). Harry E. Brautigam, the BCIE president sent the certification to Treasury Minister Vicente Bengoa and thanked him for the cooperation that allowed the Dominican Republic to form part of the bank. The Dominican Republic’s …

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In an unusual move, the Department for the Prevention of Corruption (DEPRECO) has issued a Wanted Poster for Angel Jose Castro Castro, one of the accused in the recent pension scandal at the Ministry of Finance. Depreco is pursuing Castro Castro as one of the leading figures in the RD$50 million scandal. Octavio Lister, the …

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The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court has ordered an investigation into the presence of several members of the armed forces intelligence unit (J-2) in a courtroom of Santo Domingo’s Second Court of Instruction during the preliminary hearings of the case involving Colonel Leonel Velasquez and others implicated in the murder of Major Jose Herran …

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In Santiago, the Third Court of Instruction has ordered four of the five men accused of the murder of Vanessa Ramirez Fana to be held for trial. The fifth person implicated, Jose Armando de la Rosa, who had purchased the stolen cellular phone from the accused murderers, was released from jail. The magistrate, Miguel Parache, …

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