Dominican Today (Free subscription) | yesterday
Santo Domingo.- President Leonel Fernandez last night headed the reinaugural of the Palacio de Bellas Artes, built in 1956, and now remodeled with all its surroundings, placed inthe hands of the Culture Ministry and all Dominicans 52 years later.
Dominican Today (Free subscription) | yesterday
SANTO DOMINGO.- President Leonel Fernandez met yesterday in the National Palace with the deputies of the ruling PLD and allied parties, to know the vision on the initiative’s content for the reform of the Domnican Constitution, and to explain the Executive Branch’s Approach approach on the piece.
Dominican Today (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
SANTO DOMINGO. - President Leonel Fernandez and executives of the company Shell today completed details for the State’s buyout of the 50 percent stake it doesn’t already own in the country’s only oil refinery, Refidomsa, said Hacienda minister Vicente Bengoa after a meeting in the National Palace Thursday.
Dominican Today (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
SANTO DOMINGO.- As sniping among senior Government officials continues while president Leonel Fernandez appears to wait and hope the confrontations run out of steam, just today the Environment Ministry challenged the National Properties (BN) administrator to take the conflict over the sale of government lands in Santiago to court.
Dominican Today (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
SANTO DOMINGO.- The Executive Branch yesterday appointed Angel Lockward as Dominican ambassador in Colombia. The designation of the Cabinet level officer without functions is contained in president Leonel Fernandez decree 622-08.
Dominican Today (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
SANTO DOMINGO.- Public bickering among senior Government officials that have drawn the media’s attention in the last few weeks reveal president Leonel Fernandez’s lack of ability to exert discipline, just weeks after the inaugural of his second term.
Dominican Today (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
Santo Domingo.– President Leonel Fernández submitted a
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
Dominican President Leonel Fernández said that the U.S. credit crisis not only menaces the economies of the region but also democracy, which is already being questioned by the have-nots of the region who held high expectations for the benefits of democracy.
Dominican Today (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
Santo Domingo.- President Leonel Fernández flew to Miami today to speak on trade and investment facilities in the Dominican Republic, sponsored by newspaper Miami Herald.
Dominican Today (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008
SANTO DOMINGO.- President Leonel Fernandez will travel to Miami Thursday to participate in newspaper Miami Herald’s annual luncheon, in which he’ll talk about investment and trade opportunities in Dominican Republic.
Dominican Today (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008
SANTO DOMINGO.- President Leonel Fernandez instructed the Agricultural Bank to disburse starting today the first RD$1.0 billion of the RD$2.5 billion allocated to recover production of the farms damaged by the spate of storms in the last few months.
Dominican Today (Free subscription) | 30/09/2008
SANTO DOMINGO.- A Central Electoral Board judge today defined the unification of the elections in president Leonel Fernandez’s proposal to reform the Constitution an electoral step back, and instead proposed limitations to the electoral campaign period.
Dominican Today (Free subscription) | 29/09/2008
SANTO DOMINGO.- President Leonel Fernandez sent a bill to the Senate aimed at replacing Law 175-03 that authorizes the Executive Branch to contract 255 million dollars in Dominican sovereign bonds for infrastructure in international money markets, to build the Coral freeway (east).
Dominican Today (Free subscription) | 27/09/2008
New York.– Dominican President Fernandez called education “the only way to speed up economic and social progress” and agreed that his government must concern itself with improving the public school system.
Dominican Today (Free subscription) | 27/09/2008
New York.– Dominican President Leonel Fernandez told about 400 people gathered at a Brown University auditorium that “in order to save democracy in Latin America, we also need a rescue package.”
