2008 – Page 41

Albert Pujols has been awarded his second National League Most Valuable Player. The slugger continues to rack up the post-season hardware and add more adjectives to his certain Hall of Fame career. Pujols’s achievement is amazing in itself, but even more amazing considering that his career had been in jeopardy before this season. Pujols has …

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The Gigantes came to play last night, though it took them a few innings to get warmed up. After falling behind, the Escogido looked to have the game wrapped, but the fat lady wasn’t singing and if she was the Gigantes weren’t listening. Came the crucial ninth inning and the Gigantes engineered a five-run rally …

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President Leonel Fernandez has told El Caribe reporters that he is confident about the financial market reforms agreed by the Group of 20 nations (G-20) and aimed at benefiting emerging economies and keeping the global economic crisis from getting worse. Fernandez said he believed that the financial crisis is the product of “a tired neo-liberal …

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The Dominican Republic has been named this year’s top small-island reformer in the “Doing Business in Small Island Developing States 2009” report published by the International Finance Corporation (IFC) and the World Bank. The Dominican Republic is, nevertheless, ranked 97th worldwide in the ease of doing business, meaning there is still lots of work to …

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The Los Haitises National Park will become the first reserve area that the Ministry of the Environment and Natural Resources (Semarena) will monitor with the full weight of the law so it becomes a model for others to follow. According to Eleuterio Martinez, the deputy minister for Protected Areas and Biodiversity, “from this moment onward, …

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The Jose Maria Cabral y Baez Regional University Hospital has decided to open a special unit to treat the increasing number of patients who are sent to Santiago for treatment from medical centers in Haiti. The office will operate under the direction of Dr. Jean Wisly Saint Hilaire. Many of the Haitians treated at “Cabral …

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The electricity crisis began to ebb a little last Friday after a meeting between the CDEEE authorities, the Ministry of Hacienda and President Leonel Fernandez that led to an announcement of partial payments of the debt through the use of fuel and loans. At noon yesterday, the generation available to the National Interconnected Electric System …

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The chairman of the Herrera Industrial Association (AEIH) Energy Commission, Ernesto Vilalta presented the need to de-politicize the energy problem in order to restore confidence in an industry that requires large investments. He said that, “in the first place the team that regulated the industry has to be changed in order for, at least, an …

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Fernando Capellan, president of the Dominican Association of Free Zones (Adozona), is calling bills to be passed that would declare exporting a national priority, reform the labor laws and stipulations that would enable the peso to float. Capellan said that the DR would then be able to make the most of new rules of origin …

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Dozens of traffic lights out of service and the lack of electricity have made it very difficult to get round Santo Domingo, risking life and limb for drivers and pedestrians alike. Major intersections lack this form of automatic traffic control because the lights are damaged, and to this one must add the lack of electricity …

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