2009 – Page 137

Tax Department (DGII) director Juan Hernandez announced yesterday that tax collections during July increased by 10.9%. Hernandez added that tax collections were in the red for the first six months of the year, but now seem to be recovering. Furthermore, Customs Department director Rafael Camilo says the DGA has collected more than expected during the …

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The Central Bank publishes today a report on how business borrowing has been RD$5.06 billion since December 2008, and thus the economy is recovering. He said that loans for commerce were up RD$3.48 billion and those to construction RD$1.2 billion. Loans to farming and fishing were up RD$2.18 billion in the second quarter of the …

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The business sector is skeptical about the success of a proposal for a new energy plan the InterAmerican Development Bank and the World Bank would present in two months time. The plan would recommend short-term solutions to the present decades-old energy crisis. The business groups say that for the plan to succeed what is first …

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The Superintendence of Energy has good news for its clients. The three energy distributors will reimburse consumers with RD$32 million in overcharges in July. EdeSur will refund RD$18.9 million, EdeNorte will refund RD$11.6 million and EdeEste will refund RD$1.4 million to clients. Hoy reports that Proconsumidor, a dependency of the Superintendence, receives thousands of complaints …

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Public Health Minister Bautista Rojas Gomez told El Caribe that the government is conditioning pay increases to public hospital doctors to productivity. The government seeks to enforce Law 87-01 and 42-01 on public health and the Ministry’s Ruling on Human Resources that rules compensation and calls for the signing of work contracts. The work contracts …

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With the launching of tear gas at doctors, the National Police sent a clear message to protesting doctors: Be forewarned. A group of doctors, lead by Dominican Medical College president Waldo Ariel Suero, was met with police resistance when they tried to get to the Duarte Bridge after departing from a meeting at La Trinitaria …

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Minister of Work Max Puig says that since 2000 the number of children working has decreased from 430,000 to 150,000. He says that social policies in place now to discourage child labor are behind the decline. He also says that the government’s Solidarity Card, issued to help low income families, has helped ease the strain …

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Senator Wilton Guerrero of Peravia denounced that in the southwestern province there are more than 20 officers of the Armed Forces and the Police involved in drug operations. He said this became apparent when on 30 July, three police agents tried to ripoff drug dealers from Santo Domingo. In the clash, two alleged dealers and …

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Dominican consul in New York, Eduardo Selman clarified there are only five official consuls, recognized by the government of the United States in addition to the diplomatic mission, based in Washington, D. C. Selman responded to a report in Hoy, yesterday that said there were 25 consuls working in the US. The story explained that …

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Dominican Ambassador to Brazil Hector Dionisio Perez has announced that in October a delegation of 150 Brazilian businessmen will be in the DR to have an “international business encounter” in the DR. The encounter will be lead by President Leonel Fernandez. The event will take place between 9 October and 11 October in Punta Cana. …

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