2007 – Page 74

The National Drug Control Department reports that an army sergeant was arrested when caught in custody of suspected drug dealers on their way to Playa Los Charcos, in Rio San Juan on the northeastern coast, where they would receive a shipment of cocaine. The sergeant was identified as Miguel Segundo Garcia. He was chief of …

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Metropolitan Transit Authority (AMET) director Brigade General Latif Miguel Mahfoud Rodriguez explained in today’s Hoy why driving in the National District (Santo Domingo) can be dangerous. Mahfoud explained said that during a two-hour surveillance operation on Abraham Lincoln, George Washington (Malecon), Luperon and Los Proceres avenues transit police ticketed 611 drivers for running a red …

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Puerto Plata gets a nonstop connection to New York again. JetBlue Airways announced effective 10 January 2008 it will be flying into the north coast airport from New York City’s JFK International Airport. Fares for the nonstop flight begin at US$109 each way (plus taxes and airport charges). The flight has convenient travel times, with …

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President Leonel Fernandez has named 60 persons to new positions in his government. Among those receiving new posts are transport association businessmen Antonio Marte, Ramon Perez Figuereo and Alfredo Pulinario Linares Cambita. These three have pending cases in court for corruption in government Plan Renove, and for the bombing of a bus during a strike …

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Banco de Reservas (BanReservas) has announced that in the last three years it has obtained more than RD$8 billion in utilities for a 30% increase and that its holdings surpass the US$4.1 billion mark, more double the US$1.94 billion that were registered in August 2004. Daniel Toribio, director of the BanResrvas, says that in its …

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The government has opened a new office in Hunts Point (the Bronx), New York to facilitate agricultural importers and exporters and reduce the hurdles that businesses face in shipping their products. Agriculture Minister Salvador Jimenez made the announcement and added that in the last three years the export of Dominican agriculture products has increased by …

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The Dominican government with the cooperation of the World Nutrition Program (PMA) will evaluate the state of child malnutrition in the 10 poorest provinces of the DR with the goal of implementing nutrition programs for children between the ages of three and 35 months, as reported in Hoy. Three thousand homes in Bahoruco, Barahona, Elias …

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Eighty years ago the Dominican economy had to make a drastic change from an economy based on the production of sugar to an economy based on services, with free trade zones and tourism providing the most jobs. Now economist Pavel Isa feels that once again the Dominican economy must make changes or face a crisis …

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Jose Ramon Fadul, President of the National Social Security Council said that he is preparing a document that will focus on the weaknesses in the current health care insurance plan, the SFS, and also said that he has information that the health risk administrators (ARS) are including the names of dead persons as affiliates in …

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The DR, through Vice President Rafael Alburquerque will continue to support the right of Taiwan to be a member of international organizations. Alburquerque, who is in Tapei, said that 20 million people can’t be isolated from international bodies. Alburquerque, speaking in Hoy, added the need to continue strengthening ties with the Asian country, with which …

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