2009 – Page 146

The board of directors of the Dominican Telecommunications Institute (Indotel) has ordered the Dominican Telephone Company (Codetel) to pay a fine for poor service. Indotel instructed Codetel to pay cell phone users who used prepaid plans the equivalent of 8.3% of the monthly consumption by the user. The resolution obliges the Codetel concession “to work …

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Former presidential candidate Guillermo Moreno complains that government corruption has become horizontal, because all who aspire to elected office see the post as a lifeline for feeding their personal projects. “The entire political system and especially the party system is fed by corruption,” he said on Monday. Moreno is notable for having tackled difficult cases …

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Over the last few days, 11 suitcases, 251 grams of gold, cell phones and other articles have been stolen from the Las Americas International Airport (AILA). The thieves evaded security and entered the terminal flight ramp. The National Police are investigating 6 cases of robbery committed over the past 15 days in restricted areas of …

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On Saturday, President Leonel Fernandez met with five of six PLD aspirants to the presidential candidacy for the party in 2012, former Secretary of the Presidency Danilo Medina, Tourism Minister Francisco Javier Garcia, Interior & Police Minister Franklin Almeyda, Civil Aviation Institute director Jose Tomas Perez, and the vice president of the State-run Electricity Companies …

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The Ministry of Environment (SEMARENA) has released 150 turtles into the sea at Guibia beach in Santo Domingo. The turtles had been born in several nests in the provinces of La Altagracia and Samana. The Ministry is still monitoring a series of other turtle nests to ensure their full development.

The State-run Electricity Companies (CDEEE) indicates that in the last four years it has received US$2.7 billion, which has been divided up among the energy distributors and their corporate units. El Caribe reports that a substantial part of those funds was used to cover expenses related to the application of “official social policies” and to …

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National Energy Commission director Aristides Fernandez Zucco says the construction of a natural gas plant that would produce 600 MW of energy and a wind power project that could produce as much as 600MW more energy will begin this month after the necessary agreements are signed. Zucco announced that a delegation from the United Arab …

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Although the government has been able to reduce its external debt by US$107.2 million or 1.5%, it has increased its internal debt by US$202.5 million, or 5%. A report by the Hacienda Ministry’s Public Debt Department revealed that at close, on 31 May 2009, the external debt totaled US$7.129 million, down from US$7.237 million in …

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The Dominican Republic has by far the highest number of legislators in relation to its population in the Americas. The Constitutional Revisory Assembly is proposing to increase the number of members of the Chamber of Deputies to 190, up from 178. There are an additional 32 senators. A report in today’s El Caribe describes this …

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Senator Francisco Dominguez Brito has undergone a second surgical procedure in an eight-day period. Dominguez had his first surgery at the Corominas Clinic for intestinal blockages last week, and doctors there announced that the Senator for Santiago and former attorney general was on the road to recovery.