2008News

Thursday sales

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, …
2008News

New foreign trade center

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 …
2008News

Fernandez to Colombian summit

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 …
2008News

CESFRONT beefs up patrols

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 …
2008News

Electricity rate increase?

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 …