2010 – Page 194

With the waters from the nearby Lake Fondo or Solie rising every day, and the rains continuing to fall, the area surrounding the major crossing between Haiti and the Dominican Republic has become a muddy morass. The mud and the rising waters have produced, according to the El Caribe, “chaos”, with border crossings taking as …

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President Leonel Fernandez urged its senators to speed up the approval of the sales contract for 49% stake in state-owned Refineria Dominicana de Petroleo (Refidomsa) refinery to Venezuela. President Leonel Fernandez made the request through his Hacienda Minister Vicente Bengoa, who met on Tuesday with the Senate’s Committee on Finance, which is discussing the agreement, …

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The DR will be the nation with the greatest economic growth rate in Latin America. The International Monetary Fund recently acknowledged the correct handling of the economic policies and especially the monetary policy. Central Bank governor Hector Valdez Albizu said that the IMF upgraded their forecast for GDP growth of 5-5.5%, but that this is …

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Celso Marranzini, executive vice president of the Public Electricity Corporation (CDEEE) has said that by the end of the first quarter of 2011, half of the energy in the country will be produced by natural gas. The executive vice-president of the CDEEE said that in part this would be accomplished by the conversion of the …

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A report in January alerted to an urgent need to improve aviation safety. In January, the report showed there were 307 incidents where inadequate procedures, violations of the airspace and the lack of coordination with military aviation could have ended in an aviation accident. A report from the Incident Prevention Unit (ATS) of the Dominican …

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The Chamber of Deputies got back to work on Wednesday with the approval of US$100 million in loans for the government. The Deputies approved a commercial loans for US$8 million and US$32.3 million loans for the Heriberto Pieter Cancer Hospital Also approved RD$646.7 million and for the Presa de Guaigui and Consorcio Impregilo-Yarull a loan …

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If you thought traffic at peak hours was bad in Santo Domingo, note it is getting worse. The government is initiating several new construction projects and detours as part of the Duarte Corridor that seeks to build new north-south thruways for the city. The Ministry of Public Works is alerting that as works progress, there …

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Unplanned pregnancies and early sex is the main reason for students to drop out from grade school, according to teachers and principals interviewed by the Listin Diario at public schools in Santo Domingo and Jarabacoa. “There are children that have dropped out when in 5th grade when getting pregnant, and they are 12 to 15 …

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Gian Enrique Rojas Matos and Ricardo Perez Mateo, accused by the Police of being the leaders of the gang of contract killers who murdered former Police Colonel Jose Amado Gonzalez Gonzalez on 24 December 2009, Omar Lantigua on 31 January 2010 and Ruben Soto Hayet on 14 May 2010, have been sent to jail for …

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Peravia Senator Wilton Guerrero says that gangs of drug dealers are using police agents to murder, kidnap and force rival groups to pay up in his hometown Bani. He said in the past two weeks, two youths were murdered by the Police. These are Ramon Alexander Gonzalez Batista, 23 years, and his 20 year old …

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