2010 – Page 8

Celso Marranzini, executive vice president of the Public Electricity Corporation (CDEEE), said that in 2010, 459,733 new clients became paying customers of the three power distributor companies n EdeSur, EdeNorte and EdeEste. The distributors now have 1,872,949 paying clients. He said that in November 2010, compared to November 2009 the electric sector billed US$1,231.9 million, …

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Over the weekend, local press carried reports on leaked US Embassy reports to the US government of complaints by foreign businessmen that they were being extorted by Dominican government officers. The reports were released in Spanish in El Pais of Spain, following their publication in WikiLeaks. These are the first two of reportedly 1,675 classified …

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Business groups were prompt to comment on the WikiLeaks releases and complained that corruption, excessive red tape, impunity and lack of respect for laws discourage foreign investment and affect the competitiveness of local companies, as reported on Sunday in Listin Diario. Manuel Cabrera, former president of the Association of Industries of Herrera, said that other …

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New cases of cholera were reported in provinces at the border with Haiti — San Juan de la Maguana, Elias Pina and Independencia provinces, all lining the Haitian border. El Caribe reports on the case of a pregnant woman from Haiti who arrived to Montecristi seeking medical attention, and is now recovering. Local health authorities …

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The so-called Pedro Escobar of the Caribbean, Jose David Figueroa Agosto, reportedly sent his mistress and lover a note from his prison cell in Puerto Rico. He asked Sobeida Felix Morel to not talk to reporters, saying, according to How newspaper, that her comments were affecting his case in the courts in San Juan. According …

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19-year old Martha Heredia, who revved Dominicans to vote for her leading her to win the Latin American Idol pop show title, is making headlines now for a tragedy that occurred when she was driving from Santiago to Santo Domingo near Villa Altagracia. As reported in El Caribe, on Saturday morning before 7am she was …

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Salsa king Gilberto Santa Rosa & merengue king Johnny Ventura promise two evenings of extraordinary tropical music at the National Theater. Together they released the successful track, “Hay que dejarse de vaina” and now will be performing to share their music with Dominican audiences. 21 and 22 December. At the National Theater. 8:30pm. Tickets: RD$1,500 …

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On Friday no baseball games were played because the Player’s Federation decided that the Dominican Professional League (Lidom) suspension of pitcher Wilkins Arias had been unfair. The League had ordered Arias be expelled for the rest of the championship and penalized with RD$25,000 for playing in a game when he was not on the Aguilas …

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The PLD majority of deputies voted in favor of passing the 2011 National Budget as presented by the Presidency. The budget total is RD$390 billion. The budget included an addendum assigning 30% of surplus revenues in 2011 to education. The first reading was passed with the vote of 99 deputies of the PLD and its …

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ProConsumer inspectors have started the process of verification to establish whether the GLP stations are complying with the requirement of installing scales so consumers could be sure they are receiving what they had paid for. On Thursday inspectors visited GLP stations in Santo Domingo, Moca and Santiago. The inspectors checked that the readings on the …

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