2009 – Page 82

An outstanding evening, starts with a 6pm conference by Mexican Miguel Angel Munoz on Maestro Ramon Oviedo on Friday, 2 October at the Auditorium of the Museum of Modern Art. This is to be followed by a review on the work of Maestro Ramon Oviedo by Sara Hermann and Carlos Acero. Dustin Munoz will act …

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Vice President Rafael Alburquerque and Environment Minister Jaime David Fernandez Mirabal have announced that they will go and see for themselves the encroaching deforestation over the border with Haiti. Listin Diario has been featuring reports showing that Haiti’s barren hills are moving east. The VP and Fernandez plan to tour the area by helicopter to …

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Economic improvements in Haiti are the best of news for the DR. A business mission visiting Haiti this week bodes well. Former US President Bill Clinton is optimistic that Haiti is well placed to pull itself out of its current state of grinding poverty. Clinton, who is the UN Special Envoy for Haiti, is leading …

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The DR government will officially present the International Monetary Fund (IMF) with its letter of intent for a new Stand-by Arrangement today. The letter describes the policies that the Dominican government plans to implement in the context of its request for financial support to fund budget deficits. It needs to be reviewed by the IMF …

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Clave newspaper highlights that the public debt is now at US$17,396.2 million, according to figures from The Economist. In other words, every baby born in the DR comes into this world owing US$1,845. Journalist Edwin Ruiz points out that the Ministry of Hacienda only acknowledges a government debt of US$11,358.2 million. He writes that the …

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The Constitutional Revisory Assembly has announced that the Constitutional article on protected areas will include private property rights. This legalizes the de-facto privatization of beaches, rivers, lakes and coastline that has taken place over the years. Senator Francis Vargas (PLD-Puerto Plata) submitted the request. In the past, the Constitution established all these areas as fully …

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Yesterday legislators also approved changes in the Constitution to enable presidential, congressional and municipal elections to be held in the same year. This will start in 2016. The presidential and congressional election will be held on the third Sunday in May. The municipal election will be held on the third Sunday in February. The new …

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Celso Marranzini, the recently recruited executive vice president of the State-Owned Electricity Companies (CDEEE), is asking the public to give him time to resolve the power crisis. He had good news, though. He says citizens will begin to notice a reduction in blackouts beginning today. Marranzini says that the government is awaiting shipments of fuel …

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The United Nations committee that is studying the legality and environmental implications of building a cement factory near the perimeter of the Los Haitises National Park says it has postponed the presentation of that report until further notice. The report had been promised from 20-30 September, but committee members now say that the delay is …

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You can’t blame the man for trying. But by the looks of it, legal advisor under former President Hipolito Mejia, Guido Gomez Mazara’s chances of being the PRD’s Secretary General have passed him by. Yesterday, Gomez once again faced the cameras brandishing proof of fraud in the PRD internal electoral process. But at this point …

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