2008 – Page 64

President Leonel Fernandez says that the country has definitely started on the road to modernization and that it is currently entering the transition phase towards a model of knowledge based on science, technology and the efforts of a new productive system. The President led last night’s inauguration of the Dominican Technology Fair “TECDO 2008” which …

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After many months of strife and an extended impasse with the Executive Branch and the Ministry of Public Health, the Dominican Medical Association (CMD) was able to work out an agreement with the Congress leadership yesterday. The agreement includes an increase in doctors’ salaries over the next two years. The agreement announced by the Congress …

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The vice-president of the Dominican Corporation of State-owned Electricity Enterprises (CDEEE), Radhames Segura, said yesterday that he expects that the energy crisis affecting the country to be solved with the possible entry of AES-Andres into service next week. The AES-Andres plant has been off-line for “technical problems”. The official told reporters from Diario Libre that …

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The new members of the Chamber of Accounts (CC), the government accounting office, have published the amounts of their salaries. In a certified letter sent to El Caribe, CC financial director Ana Maria Rivas Duran points out that because of the austerity directives issued by the President, members’ salaries will be RD$281,973.60 per month. To …

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The Minister of Education, Melanio Paredes, called the fact that there are so many betting parlors that promote gambling, “an outrage”. The minister, who is currently in Brussels, Belgium, was commenting on a report in Listin Diario that said that there were nearly six times the number of betting parlors as schools in the country, …

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The 48-hour protest that began on Tuesday in San Francisco de Macoris in demand for several public works projects was extended for a further 24 hours by a group of organizations belonging to the Alternative Social Forum (FSA). Two people were killed during the first two days of the protest. They were identified as the …

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The authorities have revealed the identity of the person who allegedly took the bag containing RD$15 million from the residence of the Colombians who were killed by a gang headed by Navy officers and some civilians, most of whom have been captured and put on trial. During the questioning carried out in hearings that led …

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The National Police have announced that at midnight on Tuesday they found one of the assault rifles used in the massacre at Paya, Bani last 4 August. The police reported that the weapon, which was found in the possession of an unnamed person, would be used in evidence against those accused of the crime. Even …

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National Progressive Force (FNP) deputy Pelegrin Castillo has told reporters that the United States government notified the Dominican government that it opposes the legislative proposal aimed at establishing air and sea interdiction of suspected drug smugglers. The legislation is currently in Congress as part of the mechanisms that will be implemented to fight drug trafficking …

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With two dissenting votes, the Supreme Court decreed that the legislation by which the National Congress approved the Concordat with the Vatican in 1954 was within Constitutional grounds. With this decision, the SJC rejected the petition for a decree of unconstitutionality brought by an Evangelical group, the Healthy and Eternal Life Ministry of Jesus on …

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