2001 – Page 173

Minister of Education, Vice President Milagros Ortiz Bosch said that parents and society in general should demand that their children receive the stipulated number of class hours. She pointed out that in the United States, children receive 1,300 hours of instruction, 1,200 in Spain and 1,400 in Japan. In the DR, some 1,025 hours are …

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The president of the Dominican Association of Professors, Olimpia Gonzalez rejected the findings of a recent study commissioned by Minister of Education Milagros Ortiz Bosch and funded by the US Agency for International Development. The study said that the two biggest enemies of public education in the DR were the politics that corrode the Ministry …

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Mrs. Carmen Quidiello de Bosch, wife of Juan Bosch, the founder of the Partido de la Liberacion Dominicana warned there is a distortion in the purposes of the PLD and requested that the name of her husband, former President Juan Bosch, be removed from the final report of the VI Congress of the party. She …

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Former Vice President Carlos Morales criticized the government for promoting the giant growth in numbers of employees of the state. He said the state now employs more than 330,000 persons, most of which hold "botellas" or jobs that could be done without, or for which persons do not do anything, but collect a salary. In …

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Capilano College of Vancouver, Canada will be interviewing potential candidates for their Latin American Management Program. The program consists of one academic year of intense management studies coupled with global, cultural, and language studies with particular focus on how all of those aspects relate to the unique experiences of Latin American markets. Academic focuses include: …

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The Senate approved the Central American Free Trade Agreement. It postponed the approval of the FTA’s protocols for six months so that the government may have time to renegotiate farm product concessions. Ambassador Maritza Amalia Guerrero, representative of the government before the World Trade Organization, protested the decision. She explains that the agreement clashes with …

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President Hipolito Mejia issued a decree in an attempt to resolve the dispute between the Ministry of Public Health (Sespas) and the Dominican Social Security Institute (IDSS) regarding the soon to be opened Herrera Hospital. Both government institutions sought the management of the new center. Yesterday the President signed into law the General Health Bill …

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Minister of Finances Fernando Alvarez Bogaert denied yesterday a report in the Listin Diario (see http://www.dr1.com/daily/news031501.shtml) that stated that the government had a RD$1,500 million fiscal deficit in January and that a loan from the Banco de Reservas was used to finance the deficit. The newspaper attributed the fiscal deficit to government overspending on new …

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El Siglo newspaper reports that there has indeed been a slow down in the rate of government construction on the mega projects left three-quarters finished by the past administration. Minister of Public Works Miguel Vargas said that his department is receiving less than half of the resources managed last year. He said that to meet …

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