2007 – Page 75

The Specialized Frontier Security Corps (CESFRONT) is receiving new complaints from businesspersons in the border region where the corps is working. Businesspersons say that because of new and stricter rules enforced by Cesfront many Haitians that they say have the proper identification are being deported back to Haiti. Diario Libre writes that many Haitians, who …

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More that 60 deputies from various political parties have introduced a bill that seeks to provide equal treatment under the law for all religions that are not currently covered by a special law or international agreement. Deputy Carlos Pena drafted the bill that contemplates the creation of the National Religion Associations Registry for major and …

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The Sun Land Corporation, in a press released directed towards the director of the Diario Libre, Adriano Miguel Tejada, answered some of the questions posed by that newspaper, though it was unable to provide definite answers (full disclosure) as to the dealings with the government. In the press release, Sun Land states that the promissory …

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The illicit business of stealing metals and selling them for profit has reached new lows according to the Diario Libre. Yesterday Juan Aneudy Duran Baez, 35, was shot in the back and legs after he was caught trying to steal boxes of bronze zippers from the Notion factory at the free trade park in Santiago. …

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Chief of the Navy Vice Admiral Julio Cesar Ventura Bayonet says that the possibility exists that more than three persons died earlier in the week as they tried to illegally enter Puerto Rico on small makeshift boats. Ventura says that three women were identified dead, but he is almost certain that more people died. He …

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The National Energy Commission (CNE) handed in the next National Contingency Energy Plan to President Leonel Fernandez. The President will study the plan to see if it can be implemented. Readers will remember a Presidential decree of September 2005 that issued a long list of things that would have been done to reduce the nation’s …

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Interior and of the Police Minister Franklin Almeyda has announced that there are 15,000 police men and women working for high-ranking government officials or in the private sector, as reported in Hoy. He emphasized that this was just the number of cops that should be patrolling the nation’s streets to prevent crime. According to the …

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The Chamber of Deputies approved yesterday the Law on Air and Maritime Interception by a wide margin. Pelegrin Castillo and Jose Ricardo Taveras of the FNP party are the authors of the initiative. Taveras explained to reporters from the Listin Diario that the law establishes the protocols to be used in intercepting suspicious aircraft and …

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Former Superintendent for Health and Labor Risks (SISARIL), Dr. Bernardo Defillo said that the start of the new Family Health Insurance Program (SFS) was a “40 year step backwards.” Defillo, a noted physician in Santo Domingo, said that the lack of service and the problems with customer’s identification with a particular ARS, the Dominican version …

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Nose, eye and ear specialists decided to no longer work with patients affiliated to the Family Health Insurance Program (SFS) plan. The reason is that in some cases, the ARS reduced by 70% the payments they were receiving under the previous plan. The specialists say they will only accept complementary insurance plans. As reported in …

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