2008 – Page 318

The Latin American Table Tennis Championships will take place in Santo Domingo from 30 March to 6 April. A total of 14 spots need to be filled for the Beijing Olympic Summer Games. Two competitors from the Dominican Republic, Lin Ju and Wu Xu, qualified in the Pan American Games held in Rio de Janeiro …

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The International Monetary Fund has finished its eighth and final review of the Stand-by arrangement with the DR. As a result, the IMF has approved the disbursal of US$122.3 million, of which $77.05 million are in Special Drawing Rights. The review of the letter of intent was on the agenda after being delayed for “unintentional …

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Farmers taking part in the bi-national market between Haiti and the DR have decided to boycott this coming Monday’s market in response to the Haitian authorities’ reluctance to lift their ban on Dominican chicken and egg imports. The ban has been in place for two weeks, following an Avian flu scare in the DR, but …

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The PRD is asking President Leonel Fernandez to explain his relationship with Nelson Solano Guzman. A Supreme Court document indicates that Solano had ties to numerous mega-projects in the DR at the time of his extradition to the US on heroin trafficking charges. During a press conference held at the PRD headquarters, party general secretary …

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Dirty politics, underhand tactics and rumor spreading are all part of the political hustle and bustle during an election year, but Dominicans are getting tired of the negativity. As a result, the Catholic Church, the Supreme Court, the Central Electoral Board (JCE), Citizen Participation (PC), the Justice and Institutionalism Foundation (FINJUS) and the Latin American …

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Lawyers consulted by Listin Diario say that the signs in the parking lots of shopping malls and supermarkets don’t release businesses from responsibility when a car is stolen. Lawyer Desiderio Ruiz says that these signs are meaningless because if something happens to a vehicle within the parking lot, the business owners are obliged to pay …

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On 10 February the Conference on Dominican Affairs (CODA) will be holding its Eighth Annual Conference at Rutgers University. The conference seeks to provide a forum to identify and develop a state agenda designed to unite Dominican Americans behind a common goal. The conference especially addresses issues that affect the Dominican-American community in New Jersey. …

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The RD$1.8 billion per capita surplus that the Social Security Treasury collected from the Family Health Plan in its first four months of operation will be used to create a contingency fund to cover the unexpected costs of natural disasters, epidemiological outbreaks or inflationary cost increases in health coverage. The proposal will be presented to …

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A report by the United Nations Environmental Program indicates that the DR is the third largest emitter of carbon dioxide (CO2) gases in the Caribbean. The DR, with 4.84 million metric tons of CO2 per year, came in third among 18 countries. Trinidad and Cuba beat the DR to the top of the list. The …

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Thirteen people were injured yesterday after an elevator plummeted from the seventh floor of the Hilton Hotel, at the Malecon Center in Santo Domingo. The incident occurred at 8:30pm during a re-election event for President Leonel Fernandez. Hoy writes that Fernandez was present at the event and reports that the people who were injured included …

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