2008 – Page 68

The authorities have revealed the identity of the person who allegedly took the bag containing RD$15 million from the residence of the Colombians who were killed by a gang headed by Navy officers and some civilians, most of whom have been captured and put on trial. During the questioning carried out in hearings that led …

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The National Police have announced that at midnight on Tuesday they found one of the assault rifles used in the massacre at Paya, Bani last 4 August. The police reported that the weapon, which was found in the possession of an unnamed person, would be used in evidence against those accused of the crime. Even …

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National Progressive Force (FNP) deputy Pelegrin Castillo has told reporters that the United States government notified the Dominican government that it opposes the legislative proposal aimed at establishing air and sea interdiction of suspected drug smugglers. The legislation is currently in Congress as part of the mechanisms that will be implemented to fight drug trafficking …

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With two dissenting votes, the Supreme Court decreed that the legislation by which the National Congress approved the Concordat with the Vatican in 1954 was within Constitutional grounds. With this decision, the SJC rejected the petition for a decree of unconstitutionality brought by an Evangelical group, the Healthy and Eternal Life Ministry of Jesus on …

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The Administrative Chamber of the Central Electoral Board (JCE) issued a new set of regulations and dress codes for its employees yesterday, including a ban on the use of blue jeans, polo shirts, Capri pants, Bermuda shorts, sport shoes and tennis shoes. The administrative Chamber, according to Hoy, has also banned the use of music …

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Business leader Julio Virgilio Brache says that business people need to join forces in order to save the Dominican forest cover. He said that forests have been deteriorating and the efforts will prevent the country’s water supply from drying up altogether. Brache, the president of the National Network of Business Support for the Protection of …

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Esperanza Marte Victoriano is an everyday heroine. With her hands, her ideas and her sweat, she has fought the worst type of tyrrany: Poverty. Together with other women from Los Calabazos in Jarabacoa, she planted the seeds of a project, and little by little, built an eco-tourism venture, a hydroelectric plant and an aqueduct that …

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President Leonel Fernandez launched the Strategic Science and Technology Innovation Plan 2008-2018 (PECyT+I) during a special panel discussion held at the Global Democracy and Development Foundation (FunGlode)yesterday. The RD$50 billion program will be managed by the Higher Education Ministry (SEECYT). Fernandez said that the initiative represents true innovation for the country and that development cannot …

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Dr. Cristobal Rodriguez, a constitutional specialist with the United Nations Development Fund (UNDP), says the proposed constitutional reform would give the Dominican President “unlimited power” adding that the personal management of the state’s resources by the President, as stipulated by the reform, could create a bureaucracy and a culture of potent clientilism. Rodriguez said that …

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Listin Diario reports that the government’s decision not to lower gasoline prices is illegal and violates Hydro-Carbides Law 112-00. The assertion comes after Economy, Planning and Development Minister Temistocles Montas announced that although international fuel prices are dropping, the government wouldn’t follow suit. Montas stated that the government would not lower prices because it had …

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