2010 – Page 267

The Fernandez administration chose former president of the PRSC political party, engineer Federico Antun Batlle (Quique) to be the general manager of the National Bank for the Promotion of Housing and Construction (Banco Nacional de Fomento a la Vivienda y la Construccion), formerly the BNV. He replaces Joaquin Geronimo, who was appointed to head the …

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The National Lottery sells few tickets. Its income rather comes from collecting taxes on sports betting shops nationwide, Diario Libre reports today. Administrator Enrique Martinez says 80% of its revenues comes from taxes. The Lottery collected RD$1,423,943,341 last year, of which more than RD$1.24 billion came from the taxes collected from betting parlors and electronic …

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Today is the crucial for political parties to register their candidates for the 4,036 jobs that are up for election on 16 May. The very active day begins with a plenary meeting of the Central Electoral Board (JCE) before the deadline.

Blackouts have increased once again in Santo Domingo and the provinces of the East and throughout the Cibao Valley, with the AES Andres and the San Felipe going off line. AES Andres produces 200 megawatts and the San Felipe unit about 180 megawatts. According to the Superintendent of Electricity, at 6 pm yesterday the electricity …

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Work is advancing on the Consorcio Energetico Punta Cana-Macao (CEPM) wind park in Cabo Engano, in the Punta Cana area. The company has placed an order for 14 V90-1.8 MW turbine for the Parque Eolico Los Cocos project from Vestas Wind Systems, the world’s biggest manufacturer of wind systems. As reported by Reuters, delivery of …

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Pueblo Viejo Dominicana Corporation (Barrick Gold) said yesterday that all but three of those that were intoxicated at the plant have been released from hospitals. PVDC says that 348 employees were affected, while another 600 did not suffer symptoms and were back at work. The company attributes the intoxication to food poisoning at lunch. The …

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The creation of new urban and production centers outside of over-populated Port-au-Prince is the focus of the recommendations that will be made to donors at the World Summit for Haiti scheduled for the United Nations on 31 March. Delegates of 28 nations met in Santo Domingo to discuss a proposals for sustainable development in Haiti. …

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New York State Assemblyman Jose Peralta won yesterday’s special election in Queens, New York for the vacant State Senate seat against Hiram Monserrat. Peralta’s Senate victory makes him the first Dominican-American State Senator in New York State history and only the second Dominican Senator ever in US history (Juan Pichardo of Rhode Island is the …

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Adjunct prosecutor Bolivar Sanchez told the press yesterday that the owner of the missing Cessna that disappeared from Dominican radars shortly after takeoff last week is Santiago lawyer Arsenio Rodriguez Perez. The pilot has been identified as Colombian Adolfo Rodriguez Vasquez. Rodriguez had landed at Santiago’s international Cibao Airport on 28 January from the Opa-Locka …

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Fugitive drug baron Jose David Figueroa has been mocking Dominican society and its institutions all along, but he has not been doing it alone, writes El Dia in an editorial today. The newspaper comments on his “spectacular escapes” saying he has walked from two of these. “We can even say he left with guards that …

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