Dominican Today (Free subscription) | yesterday
Santo Domingo.- President Leonel Fernandez will speak 7:30 p.m. Thursday in a press conference in the National Palace, said the Presidency’s Press director Rafael Núñez yesterday, who said the chief executive will talk about the rise in fuel prices and food scarcity, among other topics.
Diplodemocracia (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
Dominican president Leonel Fernandez will fly to Venezuela's Isla Margarita Saturday to attend a Petrocaribe summit, where the leaders will deal with the increases in the price of oil on and try to get Caracas to boost the share received by their countries through that deal ( full information )/ Presidente dominicano Leonel Fernández volará a la isla de Margarita Venezuela este sábado para atender...
Dominican Today (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
Santo Domingo.- Dominican president Leonel Fernandez will fly to Venezuela's Isla Margarita Saturday to attend a Petrocaribe summit, where the leaders will deal with the increases in the price of oil on and try to get Caracas to boost the share received by their countries through that deal.
Dominican Today (Free subscription) | 07/04/2008
SANTIAGO. - President Leonel Fernandez inaugurated Thursday the first Government-built housing project in various areas of the country for the families left homeless by the storms Olga and Noel.
Dominican Today (Free subscription) | 06/26/2008
SANTO DOMINGO. - President Leonel Fernandez will participate in an extraordinary Petrocaribe Summit of Presidents July 13 in Venezuela, with members of the agreement, said that country’s ambassador Francisco Belisario Landis today.
Dominican Today (Free subscription) | 06/26/2008
SANTO DOMINGO.- President Leonel Fernandez received Wednesday the credentials of the ambassadors of Colombia, South Korea, Bulgaria and Guatemala, during a ceremony held in the Ambassadors salon of the National Palace.
Dominican Today (Free subscription) | 06/25/2008
SANTO DOMINGO.- As soon as president Leonel Fernandez begins his third term in office August 16 Dominican Republic will sign a "monitoring agreement" with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The pact doesn’t imply the contributions of funds, structural revision of quantitative goals nor the conditionalities of a Stand-By agreement.
Dominican Today (Free subscription) | 06/24/2008
SANTO DOMINGO.- President Leonel Fernandez will meet with International Monetary Fund (IMF) assistant director Murilo Portugal today to analyze three topics: the effect of the world’s oil and food crisis on the Dominican economy; the status of the tax agreements, and the supervision of the international banking organizations.
Dominican Today (Free subscription) | 06/14/2008
Santo Domingo.– The Dominican President Leonel Fernandez on June 13 received a delegation of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) led by the head of the CPV Central Committee’s Commission for External Relations, Tran Van Hang, which is on a working visit to the country.
Dominican Today (Free subscription) | 06/13/2008
SANTO DOMINGO.- For almost six hours president Leonel Fernandez yesterday met with the Government’s economic and energy area officials to analyze and discuss measures to take in the coming days, aimed at confront the energy problem and the situation brought on by the constant rises in oil prices.
Dominican Today (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
SANTO DOMINGO. - President Leonel Fernandez said today the increase in oil prices will bring about political imbalance and difficulties for the continent’s countries to pay the foreign debt and also the fuel bill and blamed those jumps in on the lack of regulations over the United States investment banks
Dominican Today (Free subscription) | 06/09/2008
BARCELONA.- President Leonel Fernandez yesterday said a group of businesspersons from the Balearic Islands -who already have tourism complexes in Dominican Republic- want to invest 3,750 million euros in the industry in the next four years.
Dominican Today (Free subscription) | 06/05/2008
ROME.- President Leonel Fernandez and the first lady Margarita Cedeño participated in a mass to give thanks for his electoral victory, dedicated to the Virgin La Altagracia, protector of the Dominican nation.
Dominican Today (Free subscription) | 06/05/2008
ROME.- President Leonel Fernandez proposed yesterday, in the UN conference on Food Security, to apply an emergency plan so the most vulnerable countries can have enough resources to confront the cost of oil and to adopt sustainable farm production programs, and railed the international community’s “arrogance” before the problems of others.
Dominican Today (Free subscription) | 06/04/2008
ROME. - Dominican president Leonel Fernandez today announced a plan to produce ethanol from sugar cane and reduce the dependency on fossil fuels by using biofuels, during his speech in the summit on food security of the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), which began yesterday in Rome.
