2007 – Page 253

Hoy newspaper advocates that fairness prevail in a new bill that the IMF is seeking that Congress pass. In an editorial today, the newspaper urges that legislators also contemplate penalties for electrical fraud committed by companies against consumers, not only those committed by consumers that seek to get around some of the highest power rates …

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Through funds received from a World Bank loan the Commission for the Reform of the Health Sector (CERSS), in conjunction with the Support Project for the Reform of the Health Sector (PARSS) will invest RD$248 billion in the construction, repair, and purchase of equipment for 265 health centers. Gustavo Rojas, director of the CERSS, explained …

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Bus owners leader Juan Hubieres has ended his three day hunger strike. And is quoted in the Diario Libre as saying, “I want to keep living,” as his justification for ending his strike. Enriquillo Matos, of the Colegio Medico Dominicano (CMD), explained to Hubieres the risks if he continued the hunger strike given his heart …

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Cardinal Nicolas de Jesus Lopez Rodriguez says that the Dominican public is tired of the internal conflict going on in the ruling PLD party and says that it is damaging for the country. He continued by saying that “we are tired of violence, death, drugs, and instability.” The Cardinal made his statements while speaking with …

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Two laborers who were victims of a bus bombing on 12 March during a transport strike were released from the Salvador B. Gautier Hospital yesterday. Maritza de Jesus, 28, and Gladis Perez, 28, had been receiving treatment at the hospital for first and second degree burns. Doctors said that both are in stable condition. The …

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The Ministry of Environment began a bi-national project yesterday to rehabilitate the severely degraded watershed of the Artibonito River, between the DR and Haiti, the largest on the island of Hispaniola. The project is being conducted with a CAN10 million assistance of the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA). There are 23,186 inhabitants at the Artibonito …

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Police Chief Bernardo Santana Paez says that police have enough evidence and the names of the people who were responsible for the death of journalist Victor Gulias Vicioso. The body of Gulias, head of public relations for the Dominican Municipal League (LMD), was found stabbed multiple times in his apartment on Ortega y Gasset Avenue. …

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American actress Susan Sarandon will be coming to the DR to film the movie “El Crimen de las Mirabal, according to producer Etzel Baez. Sarandon will be playing the role of Dona Chea. Baez explains that Sarandon will be in the country for one week to shoot her scenes in the hometown of the Mirabal …

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President Leonel Fernandez inaugurated yesterday under a downpour of rain the Nunez de Caceres Avenue Environmental Park, which includes a lagoon, sculptures, a cascade, an amphitheater and other installations. The park, built by the Aqueduct Corporation of Santo Domingo (CAASD) cost RD$348 million. The park covers an area of 16,000 meters and was planted with …

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PLD deputies who support the election campaign of Danilo Medina returned to work today but on the condition that Medina supporters who have been fired because they support Medina’s aspiration to be the PLD presidential candidate be reinstated to their posts. Alejandro Montas, spokesman for the PLD deputies that support Medina, said that the memo …

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