2009 – Page 73

The news trickled into all the newspaper offices over the weekend. Kidnap victim Eduardo Baldera Gomez escaped from his captors in the area of Buen Hombre, Villa Vasquez, and walked for a good distance, finding refuge with two farmers who were milking cows. They fed him breakfast and helped him get to El Copey police …

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The National Revisory Assembly for the Constitution will annul the articles approved in last Thursday’s session during which several assembly members voted on behalf of absent members, creating a false vote. Assembly president Reinaldo Pared Perez said that the votes should be annulled due to what he called the “poor conduct” of some colleagues, and …

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Two Supreme Court judges have delivered a report to the president of the tribunal, Jorge Subero Isa, on the behavior of constitutional tribunals in Latin America, which in their opinion constitute a super power. “We fear that in this country many constitutional modifications will be produced because of this defect that the country’s constitution will …

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Lawyer Marino Vinicio “Vincho” Castillo, who heads the National Ethics Commission, complained yesterday that Brazilian firm Andrade Gutierrez, the company building the dam at Monte Grande, has overvalued its costs by as much as 800%. According to Castillo, when the National Institute of Hydraulic Resources (INDRHI) considered handing out the contract without bidding, the costs …

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PRD leader Miguel Vargas Maldonado is calling for a national strategy to be drawn up, with the aim of finding a bilateral solution to the Haitian immigration issue. Vargas says that the first thing that should be done is to create jobs in the frontier regions. Both governments also need to develop the plan and …

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The XXVIII Plenary Meeting of the Permanent Conference of Latin American and Caribbean Political Parties (COPPPAL) got under way this weekend. High-level leaders of the PLD and the PRD are taking part. In the opening ceremony, PRD president Miguel Vargas Maldonado reiterated the belief that the best way to reform the Constitution is through a …

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The government has decreed that the 2,356 medical residents who work throughout the country will receive, as of Tuesday, a bonus of RD$5,000 as an incentive for continuing to improve their education. According to Health Minister Bautista Rojas Gomez, these resources will also enable medical residents to obtain books or other tools that will contribute …

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The National Business Council (CONEP) says it will support the forthcoming IMF Stand-by Arrangement with the government on the grounds that the agreement would stabilize macro-economic elements by reactivating the economy. According to El Caribe, the main group representing the business sector in the Dominican Republic warns against further increases in the foreign debt or …

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The executive vice-president of the State-owned Electricity Companies (CDEEE), Celso Marranzini, told reporters from El Nuevo Diario that there was a basic thing that Dominican consumers needed to realize: That all Dominicans could enjoy electricity service 24 hours a day if they paid for it. Marranzini said, “I think this is the basic argument that …

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The fuel-price roller coaster is on the way up once again as the Ministry of Industry and Commerce announced price increases of as much as RD$4.40 per gallon. Premium gasoline goes up RD$4.00 to RD$149.90, regular goes to RD$139.90, a RD$4.40 increase. Diesel fuel went up to RD$119.40 for regular and RD$124.40 for premium, RD$2.70 …

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