2008 – Page 335

Presidential Legal Advisor Cesar Pina Toribio revealed yesterday that the PLD political committee had unanimously offered to back Central Electoral Board (JCE) judge Aura Celeste Fernandez if she chose to remain on the board. Controversy was raised last week when her husband Guillermo Moreno accepted the presidential nomination for the Movimiento Unidad y Cambio (MIUCA) …

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Chicken and egg producers from Dajabon and Moca, as well as the Dajabon Defense Committee have agreed to either boycott or impede the holding of the bi-national market next Friday. Freddy Morillo from the Dajabon committee said that powerful sectors in Haiti are opposing the lifting of the ban on importing Dominican chickens so they …

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The executive secretary for the Economic Commission on Latin America and the Caribbean, Jose Luis Machinea, said yesterday that the Dominican economy could progress without using the IMF as a crutch. The minister acknowledged the work that the IMF has done in accelerating economic recovery and helping re-establish the country’s economic credibility, but he was …

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Plaza Lama is advertising vegetable sales, with tomatos selling for RD$22.95 the pound, onions for RD$23.95, Eggplants for RD$6.95, potatos for RD$13.95lb. Rossella Boutique women’s clothing shop advertises 40% off from 15-19 January at its Plaza Dorada (Av. Roberto Pastoriza 463) shop.

The Tigres del Licey pushed their way into the finals with an incredible performance from their pitching staff. Pitcher Ervin Santana pitched six hitless innings and the rest of the pitching staff followed through, preserving the bid for no-hitter. The offense came through and scored three runs giving Licey a 3-0 win over the falling …

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The Central Electoral Board has announced that it would save the money needed to hold the second round of voting, in case it is needed, by cutting expenses. In the DR, if a candidate does not reach 50%+1 vote, a second round vote needs to be held. Judge Roberto Rosario of the Administrative Chamber told …

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The Ministry of Hacienda is dealing with a major fraud case, which according to the Office for the Persecution of Administrative Corruption (DPCA), totals RD$230 million pesos. According to the documents offered to support the case, and which were seen by Listin Diario, between January 2005 and December 2006, RD$58.1 million was collected by people …

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Major newspapers today published a 52-item paid advertisement with a list of corruption scandals regarding departments and officers of the Fernandez administration covered in the press over the past three years. The advertiser, the National Front Against Reelection (Frenacore) says these add up to RD$205 billion in corruption. The top 15 items on the list …

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As soon as the Chamber of Deputies passed the 2008 budget bill, cries of ‘foul’ started to circulate along the halls of Congress. After the initial exchange of insults between Chamber of Deputies president Julio Cesar Valentin and Senate president Reinaldo Pared Perez (both members of the ruling PLD party), PPC deputy Radhames Castro continued …

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The former regional director of the Dominican College of Engineers and Architects (Codia), Ervin Vargas, has assembled a private commission to look at the situation created by the massive release of water from the floodgates of the Tavera Dam last month. On 12 December, the dam released a huge amount of water and flooded out …

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