Santo Domingo.– Motorcycle owners and drivers have five days left to install mufflers on their bikes, a measure aimed at reducing the high noise levels of the city, announced Environment Minister Jaime David Fernandez Mirabal and the director of the Metropolitan Transport Authority (AMET) General Rafael Oscar Bencosme Candelier.

After the deadline, the motorcycles without mufflers will be confiscated, as defined by Environment Law 64-00, which establishes fines and confiscation of equipment for those contributing to noise contamiantion, Fernandez Mirabal explained.

According to the official, cars and motorcycle owners tend to shorten the ends of their mufflers in order to attract attention with their disturbing noises.

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Cincinnati.– Former Dodgers Minor Leaguer pitcher Jonady Nunez received a 50-game suspension from Major League Baseball on Friday for testing positive for the performance-enhancing substance Stanozolol in violation of the minor league drug program.

Most recently, Nunez had been a member of the Los Angeles Dodgers’ Dominican Summer League team. The suspension of Nunez will be effective immediately upon signing with another MLB organization.

Santo Domingo.- The Industry and Commerce Ministry posted lower prices on gasoline, diesel, avtur and kerosene, whereas liquefied petroleum gas remains unchanged.

For the week between Saturday, August 29 to Friday, September 4, a gallon of premium gasoline will cost RD$154.00, or RD$1.30 less and regular will cost RD$145.00 or RD$1.90 less.

A gallon of regular diesel will cost RD$122.60 less and premium will cost RD$127.60. A gallon of avtur will now cost RD$95.99, or RD$0.17 more and kerosene will cost RD$113.10, or RD$0.30 more, whereas propane gas will remain at RD$65.42 per gallon.

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Santo Domingo.- Dominicans will have the chance of switching phone companies without the need for changing their number through the portability of numbers, which starts 30 September and will give customers the right to maintain their phone numbers.

In order to complete the transfer, users only have to pay a one-time fee of RD$80 pesos each time they changed service providers.

The head of the Dominican Telecommunications Institute (INDOTEL), Jose Rafael Vargas, noted that after filling out a request form for number portability and showing the corresponding documentation, there comes an easy process for there is no limit on how many times a person can change telephone companies.

According to Vargas, this step is the most important conquest in favor of the users of the national telephone system because “it will bring about better prices, and better quality of service for the customer.” He also asked telephone companies to emphasize quality as a way to retain their customers, and compete in a fair manner, “because if they don’t, Indotel will be their judge.”

Santo Domingo.– Local taxpayers paid RD$7.9 billion last year on real estate transactions, 50% of them were carried out in the National District, Supreme Court (SCJ) president Jorge Subero Isa, revealed during a breakfast with journalists who where invited to tour the new fully computerized facilities of the Superior Land Court and Property Title Registrar divisions.

According to the official, real estate transactions in the Dominican Republic rank third in revenues generated for the government, behind customs and tax departments.

The goal of digitizing all property titles through 2010 is being achieved with Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) funding, Subero said. Property titles for 13 provinces and the National District are now available in electronic form, an advance that came after the passing of Law 108-05 on Real Estate Registrations.