Dolores Vicioso – Page 244

The Ministry of Education (Minerd) plans to issue electronic birth certificates for students starting this 2024-2025 school year. A pilot project is underway and gradually should expand to all public schools enabling schools to use digital birth certficates to enroll students in public schools. Parents need but to take their IDs to the school for …

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It was a normal day at the ruling PRM majority Chamber of Deputies when on Friday, 20 July 2024, despite the priority being the Penal Code, the deputies passed loans for US$485 million. Meanwhile, Congress has continued under much pressure as defendants of the Penal Code seek amendments to the draft received from the Senate. …

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Unicef is warning that the Dominican Republic’s draft Penal Code under study in the Chamber of Deputies endorses child abuse at home. The United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef) office in the Dominican Republic has raised concerns about a provision in the draft Penal Code that suggests that violence against children and adolescents in the home …

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On Friday, 19July 2024, the Constitutional Court (TC) ruled that a child’s life is above the religious beliefs of the parents. This is a major decision that has stirred up debates. The case revolves around what happens when physicians order a blood transfusion but this clashes with the parents’ beliefs. The parents of the child …

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Two people died in Bayara, the first municipal section of Petit-Goâve, in Haiti after consuming beef contaminated with anthrax and ten other people were hospitalized, according to CASEC Wilnord Delicieux, Haiti Libre reported on 16 July 2024. In the Dominican Republic, defense and health authorities took new preventive measures to protect against a spill-off of …

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Statistics from the Customs Agency (DGA) reveal that exports to South America are growing steadily. One of the plusses making the difference is the large number of flights down South that have cargo space available. In the first five months of 2024, some US$48 million were exported to the South American countries. This is US$10 …

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RD Vial reported the resumption on Sunday, 21 July 2024 of the Fast Pass and cash payment services at all lanes of the Las Americas Expressway tolls plaza following a temporary disruption caused by a lightning strike early on Saturday, 20 July 2024 in the morning. Jean Luis Rodríguez, director of RD Vial, praised the …

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If you were not already aware, the water in five-gallon bottles stored in the sun can be toxic. A headline story in Listin Diario alerts Dominican consumers to the reality that the water stored outdoors for purchase could be contaminated. Originally, water companies bottled the water in glass, but the bottles would break and were …

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There have been nearly a thousand cases of dengue (“bonebreak”) fever so far this year, a reminder for people to keep to preventive measures. Dengue is only transmitted by one type of mosquito, the Aedes aegypti, and that mosquito breeds only in stagnant waters. The mosquito is fairly easy to kill. Simply remove any stagnant …

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Convicted congresswoman Rosa Amalia Pilarte López (PRM-La Vega) has submitted a petition to the full Supreme Court of Justice asking for a review of her appeal against ruling SCJ-SS-24-0592 issued by the Second Chamber of that high court on 28 May 2024. Her attorneys Eduardo Jorge Prats, Julio Cury, and Roberto Medina Reyes, presented a …

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