2007 – Page 323

President Leonel Fernandez has given out a series of awards and presents to over 330 students and 18 teachers in ceremonies at the Presidential Palace. The awards ceremony covered the school term between September and November 2006. The Ministers of Education and Higher Learning were present at the ceremony, together with the head of the …

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The Ministry of Agriculture (SEA) will be selling poultry very cheaply due to the massive over-production that is currently affecting the industry. A number of government organizations, including the SEA, the Department of Livestock and the National Poultry Commission, are all contributing to the program that will set up hundreds of sales points across the …

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Minister of the Environment Max Puig was very happy to announce the news that Dominican forests have grown by 5% over the past 15 years. The announcement was made in Santiago during a ceremony at the Centro Leon. Puig said that the Dominican Republic was one of the nations with a good environmental record, along …

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Miguel Cocco, the hard-nosed Customs chief, is demanding attention. And, he is getting it. Yesterday he put his staff on buses and went to the Attorney General’s offices in Santo Domingo where he handed over a large file that implicated three people who had been caught attempting to evade over half a billion pesos in …

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The Central Electoral Board (JCE) and its Forged Identities investigating Commission have announced that the situation facing the electoral tribunal is so severe that even evangelical pastors have been involved in the production of fake identification papers leading to the issuing of fake “cedulas”, the national identification card. According to Listin Diario, magistrate John Giuliani …

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In today’s Hoy newspaper the economic editor Mario Mendez highlights the fact that as drafted, the bill to modify the Electricity Law grants the Superintendent of Electricity full powers to override the law, including the right to make changes to the power rates. Article 17 of the bill that seeks to modify Art. 30 of …

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The new Ecuadorian President, Rafael Correa, has promised his country’s assistance for the Dominican Republic in the search for solutions to its energy problems. Correa instructed his Energy Department to work through the Dominican Embassy. This news was given to Listin Diario by Dominican Vice-President Rafael Alburquerque who attended Correa’s inauguration ceremony in Quito, and …

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The Dominican Republic exports so much “scrap” metal that it is pushing out mining for leadership in the industry. Iron, copper and steel, supposedly gathered as scrap are now exported in quantities that are close to exceeding the ferro-nickel ingots from the Falconbridge mine in Bonao. It is a major business. In 2006, “scrap” exports …

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In 2006, 508 Dominican “diamonds in the rough” were harvested by the Major League Baseball academies in the DR, as reported in Diario Libre. This is 26% more than the 403 recruited in 2005. This year, MLB teams distributed US$25 million in bonds to the new players, compared to US$17 million in 2005. The average …

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Apparently people were making pottery in the DR many centuries before the Taino Indians. Such a discovery has apparently been made in the area of Bayahibe Point in the south east of the Dominican Republic. Spokesman Marcio Veloz Maggiolo said that his archeological team had submitted pieces gathered at the site in Bayahibe for radiocarbon …

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