2007 – Page 86

Listin Diario is reporting that over the last five days milk prices have skyrocketed, with hikes ranging between RD$4 and RD$149. Powdered, evaporated and condensed milks have all been affected by the price increases. Daniel Pena, president of the Santo Domingo Wholesalers Association, said that the price increases are abusive and affect the development of …

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Foreign Minister Carlos Morales Troncoso has formalized, on behalf of the DR, relations with Guinea-Bissea. The Minister also signed agreements with Sudan, North Korea, the Congo, Algeria and the Ivory Coast. Morales signed the agreements while in New York for the 62 General Assembly of the United Nations.

In October a group of Chilean investors will be visiting the DR to study the possibility of building a wind park that could produce 100 MW of energy for the country. Dionisio Sanchez, senator for Pedernales, recently returned from the Third Ibero-American Parliamentary Forum where he exchanged ideas with technicians and investors about the possibilities …

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President of the Association of Industries from the North Region (AIREN) says that Asian products are being sold on the Haitian market and enter that country without paying taxes while Dominican producers are forced to pay taxes through the application of rules that aren’t clear and change every day. He says that four or five …

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National Social Security Council general manager Ana Ilse Mena is justifying the exclusion of HIV/AIDS patients from the SFS on the grounds of fiscal balance. Mena explained that the decision was made by all parties but added that it is an issue that will have to be resolved gradually. Patients with cancer and pancreatic problems …

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National Social Security Council president Jose Ramon Fadul has warned the private health insurers (ARS) that they could have their licenses canceled if they challenge the government’s health plan, the SFS. He is quoted in Hoy as saying that the ARS do not own the country even if they run an industry with transactions worth …

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The Dominican Catholic Church said today it would be vigilant so that there is not a revoking of the Ministry of Environment Resolution 16-2007 that called an end to aggregate extraction from rivers in 90 days. Extraction is outlawed as of 10 November. “The cost to repair the damages to nature is much greater than …

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The PRD has repeated its demand for an explanation for the US$130 million the country has taken on in public debt after Presidential Works Supervisor Felix Bautista, from the Office of Engineers and Supervisors of State Works (OISOE) signed promissory notes worth US$130 million without Congressional approval. Bautista reportedly received authorization from President Fernandez to …

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Police are investigating the events that led to the death of 26-year old Engelis Maria Gonzalez Castillo Wednesday. Contrary to initial reports published in yesterday’s Diario Libre, today’s edition reports that retired Captain Rafael Garcia Sosa had tried to shoot driver Cruz Nidio Tejada Tejada and shot Gonzalez, who happened to be sitting behind the …

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The Santo Domingo City Hall (ADN) wants the central government to pay the RD$418.7 million debt accumulated by bus union Fenatrano. The debt was contracted when the former mayor of Santo Domingo, Johnny Ventura agreed to guarantee a commercial bank loan so that Fenatrano-affiliated bus owners could replace their vehicles. With bus owners falling into …

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