2007 – Page 59

Voltaire was noted for his satire and irony in his condemnation of the French monarchy. Diario Libre assistant editor Ines Aizpun wields an equally sharp pen as she examines recent declarations by President Fernandez and his ministers about the Sun Land case. Her A.M. column on Saturday, 27 October writes about the re-engineering of the …

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According to a letter from the Central Bank, 10 promissory notes, totaling US$22 million from a prior suspended commitment in which Sun Land also intervened during the Mejia administration were converted into public debt and are being paid by Dominican taxpayers regardless of the fact that the project for which they were contractually taken on …

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The police have announced that they tracked down the killers of four people in the Pastor section of Santiago to the mountains around San Jose de las Matas. The chief of police is warning the four accused killers of Maria Gomez, 63, Elias Collado, a.k.a. “Eli”, Jeffrey Rosario Pimentel, a.k.a. “Parece”, and Manuel Antonio Luna …

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The Chief of Police has announced the apprehension of the accused murderer of Ricardo Jesus Smart, a US citizen who went to the assistance of Leonardo Mordan Pena, a Haitian who was being attacked. Smart’s body was found in a house in the Campo Lindo barrio of Boca Chica. The accused, Ruddy Alberto de los …

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After weeks of silence surrounding the controversy over the recently disclosed Sun Land financing of Dominican public works, President Leonel Fernandez invited a selection of media directors to lunch and defended the legality and transparency of the contracts. He stressed that these were commitments to pay, not loans, and thus did not have to go …

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Speaking yesterday, President Leonel Fernandez revealed the existence of an addendum between the government and the Sun Land Corporation that reduces the amount of works being built with the US$130 million Sun Land loan from 11 to 5. The addendum also extends the period, until 15 July 2008, in which the works are to be …

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The Ministry of Labor has announced the official schedule for holidays in the Dominican Republic in 2008. Next year there will be six long weekends. Law 139-97 establishes that holidays falling on a Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday or Friday will be celebrated on the following Monday, with the exception of certain dates. For the Ministry calendar, …

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According to the Dominican Telecommunications Institute (Indotel) Dominicans use more than one billion cell phone minutes per month and is one of the countries in the Americas with the highest number of calls – both incoming and outgoing – to the US. Indotel director Jose Rafael Vargas made these comments during the launch of new …

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Oscar Pena Chacon, president of Codetel, says that during this year alone the country’s largest telecommunications company has invested RD$8 billion in remodeling and renovations in order to provide a better service. Pena made his comments during a ceremony inaugurating a new customer service office at the company’s corporate building on John F. Kennedy Avenue. …

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The National Social Security Council (CNSS) has approved an infractions and sanctions ruling for the SFS, the government’s health plan. Hoy writes that immediately after it was announced, the Dominican Medical Association (CMD) said it was not acceptable. The CMD says it has own set of rules. Enriquillo Matos, head of the CMD, said that …

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