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The Ministry of Interior (SEI) plans to invest RD$3.6 million (roughly US$108,534) on 1,200 alcohol detectors, which will be used by AMET officers to determine whether a driver is within the permitted alcohol limit. Through a public bidding process, the SEI chose Vilarta Technology, SA. Nelly Labrada Rosario, who led the commission that chose Vilarta …

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Technicians from the leading Spanish rail company FEVE (Ferrocariles Metropolitanos de Vias Estrechas de Espana) were in Santiago to begin feasibility studies for the construction of a surface level railway for the city. Mayor Jose Enrique Sued stressed that the railway would be a foreign investment concession that does not require funds from the municipality, …

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The Central Electoral Board has announced it has available RD$12 million to help the three leading political parties organize their primaries. Yesterday, the JCE announced that RD$4 million are allotted to the PRD that has announced its convention for 28 January.

Forming a unified front to put pressure on the government, private bus transport unions Fenatrano, Conatra, Mochotran and Fenatrapego met yesterday and are threatening to strike as of 30 January if the government doesn’t agree to subsidize public transport by 30 January, the four transport associations will go on strike. The already heavily subsidized unions …

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International organization the Blacksmith Institute, which is focused on helping resolve some of the worst environmental problems around the world, is voicing concern at the Dominican government’s seemingly continual indifference, and the Environment Ministry in particular, in tackling the lead poisoning problem in Haina, to the southwest of Santo Domingo. According to Blacksmith’s president Richard …

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The San Lorenzo maternity ward in Los Mina Hospital has released figures revealing that 5,000 abortions were performed in 2006, of which 30% were for girls between the ages of 15 and 19. Hoy newspaper reports that in some cases the situation is so bad that girls come in for two or three abortions in …

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Speaking on the El Dia program on Channel 11, Attorney General Radhames Jimenez addressed the growing number of minors being employed in the drug trafficking business. Coordinator of the Pastoral Juvenil, a youtn program, priest Luis Rosario said that the minors are being increasingly used because they can take more risks given that penalties for …

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Banks Superintendent Rafael Camilo says that the liquidation of the Asociacion Central de Ahorros y Prestamos is complete and that depositors have received their savings. At the institution, 2% of depositors with more than RD$500,000 were responsible for 96.6% of the deposits (RD$1.26 billion). The liquidation began with the 3,502 people with savings of less …

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Police in Santiago have apprehended a man who is accused of raping 15 women in December alone. Listin Diario reports that Bernardo Modesto Paulino Reynoso, 30, was caught after a woman went to the police to file a report against him. Police report that most of the women were assaulted on the Circunvalacion Avenue in …

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Popular Reggaeton group Wisin & Yandel will be performing at Altos de Chavon later this month. It’s not the first time that the popular Puerto Rican duo performs in the country, but it might well be the litmus test for measuring the group’s real popularity. The concert, on 27 January, forms part of their “Pa’l …

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