2007 – Page 90

During the Eighth Ministers Council, held over the weekend in Casa de Campo, finance ministers from Central America, Panama and the Dominican Republic agreed to increase efforts to harmonize tax schemes within the region. Outgoing council president, DR Treasury Minister Vicente Bengoa explained that in the current year the Council has created two documents that …

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Ambassador Hans Dannenberg Castellanos presented diplomatic credentials to Thai Deputy Foreign Minister Sawanit Kongsiri at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Tuesday, 28 August 2007. Dannenberg was assigned to the position on 22 March 2007. Dannenberg, who is based in the Indian capital, New Delhi, is the first Dominican Republic ambassador to Thailand. Deputy Foreign …

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Work on the highway from Santiago de la Cruz to Loma de Cabrera and Santiago de la Cruz to El Pino has resumed, thanks in part to the efforts of Angel Sosa, “the Pilgrim.” Sosa was in Santo Domingo threatening to go on hunger strike if work on the highway wasn’t resumed as promised and …

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The Central Electoral Board (JCE) took out an advertisement in Saturday’s Listin Diario, inviting tenders for the purchase of 10 luxury SUVs for its staff. Companies are asked to submit their offers and the requirements are that the 2008 luxury SUVs should have six to eight-cylinder turbo diesel engines, leather seats, double air-conditioning, refrigerator, sunroof …

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Over the weekend, the politicians went abroad… PLD presidential candidate, President Leonel Fernandez pitched the first ball at the New York Yankees versus Toronto Blue Jays game in New York. PRD presidential candidate Miguel Vargas was in Miami where he threw the first ball in the Mets versus Marlins game at Dolphin Stadium, a game …

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Eduardo Estrella, who lost the PRSC presidential primary to Amable Aristy Castro, is persevering. He will now be the presidential candidate for the Social Democrat Revolutionary Party (PRSD), the political party formed by Hatuey de Camps when he became a PRD dissident after former President Hipolito Mejia chose to change the Constitution so he could …

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Listin Diario is warning vehicle owners who are selling their vehicles to ensure that the registration is passed on to the purchaser prior to completing the transaction. The newspaper warns that according to Dominican law, if the vehicle is in any way involved in an accident or theft, the legal owner will be held responsible, …

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The quiet seaside vacation community of Palmar de Ocoa has made headlines with the arrest of a pornography ring. As reported in Saturday’s Listin Diario, police officers arrested five French citizens for trafficking in minors and pornography. In a raid on the Palmar de Ocoa residence that served as the group’s center of operations, dozens …

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Captain Anderson Antonio Rojas and Corporal Wilkinson Novas Diaz have been sentenced to three months house arrest at the 27 de Febrero Naval Base for their role in the assassination attempt on Major Joran Jose Baez Fernandez. Both men have denied their role in the plot and their lawyers have said that they would appeal …

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Awilda Cuevas and Johanny Garcia, the students who were run over by a bus last week, are doing better. Both could be taken out of the intensive care unit today. Cuevas suffered severe head trauma while Garcia had four broken ribs and a fractured leg.