2008 – Page 12

More good news for local vehicle owners and many businesses in general. For the tenth consecutive week, the price of fuel in the DR has declined significantly. This week, the price of premium gasoline dropped RD$8.40, regular gasoline went down RD$6, premium diesel RD$7.60 and regular diesel RD$9.80. Avtur was also down RD$8.89, kerosene RD$7.20, …

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The government has entrusted the Santo Domingo Chamber of Commerce with the task of certifying electronic signatures in the Dominican Republic. This opens the door to trade beyond our borders, says Juan Bancalari, president of the Chamber of Commerce. The Dominican Telecommunications Institute (Indotel) will be launching the Digifirma project this Tuesday. Bancalari stressed that …

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Two specialists from the Bronx Zoo and the United States National Aviary visited Santo Domingo to help the National Zoo reconstruct its aviary, as part of a cooperation agreement. Steven J. Sarro, director of Animal Programs and Steven Latta, assistant director of Conservation and Field Research at the National Aviary visited to help the zoo …

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The director of the University of Chile’s International Studies Center, Juan Emilio Cheyre, expressed his concerns about the situation in Haiti in an op-ed contribution to Listin Diario on Friday, 12 December. He says he was involved with the peace-making process and recently returned to Haiti, which motivated him to write the piece. Cheyre calls …

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Last week the Spanish EFE press agency reported an incident in which it mentions that a Dominican supposedly amputated a Haitian man’s hands. The video is being distributed in an email claiming that this was an example of the violence against Haitians in the DR. But a closer examination of the video makes it obvious …

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A poll on remittances, migration and banking in the DR has found that 55.1% of Dominicans do not have a bank account in the DR. The poll was conducted in June. Manuel Orozco, of Inter-American Dialogue, based in Washington, D.C. says that 67.7% said they didn’t have enough money to keep an account open. Likewise, …

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Diario Libre focuses on a recent court sentence that ruled in the favor of allotting lands in the National Park of the East to a group of Spanish investors. The newspaper comments that one of the investors is Carlos Sanchez Hernandez, a partner in Compania de Inversiones Trubia, which benefited from the ruling by the …

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Higuey has been described as a Mecca for forging land titles, where just in parcel 367-B there is a portion of land with 15 “claimants” fighting over its possession, as reported in Diario Libre. Also in the area there are property lines over property lines of land. The State Lawyer for the Higher Land Court, …

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Jose Torres, director of the National Association of Free Zones has confirmed that thousands of industrial free zone workers are being let go as a consequence of reduced contracting by US apparel companies. The dismissals primarily affect free zones in Santiago, La Vega and Moca in the north of the country. Behind it all is …

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Don Mario Alvarez, 20-year long editor of Hoy newspaper and writer of the renowned Coctelera column, passed away yesterday at Corazones Unidos, where he had been hospitalized for several days. He was married to Altagracia Matilde Soto, and had three sons, Jaime Virgilio, Mario Virgilio and Emilio Virgilio. He was best known as Don Cuchito, …

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