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As of today the country’s urologists have decided to abandon the troubled Family Health Insurance Program (SFS). If any patients need to be seen by a urologist, they will have to attend a public hospital or pay the required fees to see a specialist at a private clinic. According to Dr Pablo Mateo Santos, the …

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The executive director of the Dominican Telecommunications Institute (Indotel), Jose Rafael Rizek Vidal, revealed that just hours after the inauguration of the OneMax offices in Santo Domingo competitor fees for broadband access fell by 20%. He told reporters from Hoy newspaper that his office was proud to see such benefits for consumers. Speaking at a …

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Just hours after issuing their verdicts on the BanInter corruption and fraud case, the three-judge panel went on vacation. According to El Caribe, Antonio Sanchez, Pilar Rufino and Esmirna Mendez handed down their decision on 21 October and have not returned to their offices since then. Their reason: Since taking on the case in February …

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The projects associated with the now infamous Sun Land case need an additional US$60 million worth of equipment in order to be fully ready to serve the university and the public. The original US$130 million contract had stipulated 11 works would be fully equipped with the funding. The Heriberto Pieter Cancer Hospital alone needs US$40 …

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Lawyer Julio Cury has told Diario Libre that the loans taken on by Sun Land to be passed on to Dominican contractors with the guarantee of the Dominican state violates No. 10 of Art. 55 of the Constitution, which obliges the head of state to send the loans to Congress. During an address to media …

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Voltaire was noted for his satire and irony in his condemnation of the French monarchy. Diario Libre assistant editor Ines Aizpun wields an equally sharp pen as she examines recent declarations by President Fernandez and his ministers about the Sun Land case. Her A.M. column on Saturday, 27 October writes about the re-engineering of the …

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According to a letter from the Central Bank, 10 promissory notes, totaling US$22 million from a prior suspended commitment in which Sun Land also intervened during the Mejia administration were converted into public debt and are being paid by Dominican taxpayers regardless of the fact that the project for which they were contractually taken on …

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The police have announced that they tracked down the killers of four people in the Pastor section of Santiago to the mountains around San Jose de las Matas. The chief of police is warning the four accused killers of Maria Gomez, 63, Elias Collado, a.k.a. “Eli”, Jeffrey Rosario Pimentel, a.k.a. “Parece”, and Manuel Antonio Luna …

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The Chief of Police has announced the apprehension of the accused murderer of Ricardo Jesus Smart, a US citizen who went to the assistance of Leonardo Mordan Pena, a Haitian who was being attacked. Smart’s body was found in a house in the Campo Lindo barrio of Boca Chica. The accused, Ruddy Alberto de los …

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After weeks of silence surrounding the controversy over the recently disclosed Sun Land financing of Dominican public works, President Leonel Fernandez invited a selection of media directors to lunch and defended the legality and transparency of the contracts. He stressed that these were commitments to pay, not loans, and thus did not have to go …

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