2009News

Fernandez moves on demands

The government convened the Council of Government to meet on 5 August to review commitments taken on in January during the Presidential Summit meetings held earlier in the year. The government maintains that it has been fulfilling these commitments gradually, Secretary of the Presidency Cesar Pina Toribio said yesterday. The Ministry of the Economy, Planning …
2009News

CDEEE debt hinders deals

The embattled executive vice-president of the State-owned Electricity Corporations (CDEEE) Radhames Segura has said on several occasions that the contracts for electricity generation are burdensome and that they need to be renegotiated. He repeated this again yesterday, and newspaper reporters asked him why this has not been done. Segura has been in this post for …
2009News

Border market reopens

The Dominican and Haitian authorities reopened the bi-national market that is held in Dajabon every Monday and Friday. However, yesterday the market was much less active than normal with fewer buyers and sellers occupying the stalls around the city. According to Haitian consul Jean Batiste Bien Ame, the lower-than-usual turnout was the result of Haitian …