2008 – Page 145

La Cadena advertises plantains for RD$5.95, Chinese eggplant for RD$4.95lb, Jaja evaporated milkfor RD$29.95/315gr, La Joya soya oil for RD$129.95/64oz, Giselle red beans for RD$54.95/2lbs. Super Pola advertises sales in its meat department with smoked pork chops selling for RD$74.95lb, pork spare ribs for RD$74.95lb, USM pork loin for RD$99lb, frozen chicken breasts for RD$49.95lb, …

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President Leonel Fernandez opened the new Institute of Foreign Trade and Business Innovation of the Dominican Republic (I-CEi) yesterday, a training center for the development of foreign trade and investment last night. The facility was built at a cost of RD$180 million donated by the Japanese Agency for International Cooperation (JICA). Two Japanese firms, Yamashita …

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President Leonel Fernandez will travel to Cartagena, Colombia to attend the Cartagena Summit on Drugs this weekend. Six heads of state will attend. President Fernandez will be joined by El Salvador’s Elias Saca, Guatemala’s Alvaro Colom, Panama’s Martin Torrijos, Mexico’s Felipe Calderon and Colombia’s Alvaro Uribe. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez will be represented by his …

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The ITB Berlin, the world’s leading convention and conference authority, has recommended that the best site for the construction of an exhibition, meetings and convention facility for the city of Santo Domingo is the site of the Dominican Naval Academy on the east bank of Ozama River. The site has been ceded to Inversiones Sans …

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The Ministry of Tourism has ordered the halt to all new projects in certain areas of Las Terrenas, on the Samana Peninsula. The Resolution 02/2008, signed by Minister Feliz Jimenez, freezes the approval for new projects “from the east side of the El Catey Airport to the Bahia Principe Portillo Resort. The second paragraph of …

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Dominican Cardinal Nicolas de Jesus Lopez Rodriguez told reporters that he wants to see an end to the conflicts between stakeholders in the Social Security system. At the same time he wants to see an improvement in their weaker areas. He said that the government and the health care providers need to sit down and …

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The Specialized Frontier Corps (Cesfront) has reinforced its patrols along the Dominican-Haitian border in response to increasingly violent protests in Haiti. The protests have to do with the rising costs of foodstuffs. Cape Haitian, Fort Liberte and Juana Mendez were affected by riots. The Cesfront posts in Dajabon, Montecristi, Manzanillo and Loma de Cabrera were …

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The chief of the Santo Domingo Fire Department, Oscar Guillermo Garcia called for the government to invest in improving conditions of Fire Department stations prior to the authorization of mixed fuel service stations, offering gasoline, diesel, propane and natural gas to vehicles. Chief Garcia said that the firemen “work for miserable salaries.” He said there …

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The Chevron-Texaco Company told the mediators at yesterday’s meeting that they are willing to purchase the tankers involved in the dispute that has cost the company millions. Chevron had cancelled the contracts on 25 units that hauled petroleum products to the company’s gasoline stations around the county. As a result, the tanker owners and drivers …

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The Dominican Corporation of State Electricity Enterprises (CDEEE) is working with a huge, billion dollar deficit, and according to the press release handed out by the executive vice-president, Radhames Segura, there are only four alternatives available: One is to renegotiate the current terms of the Madrid Accord; the second is to transfer some payments into …

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