2008 – Page 77

Results of a nationwide evaluation shows the need for major changes in how Dominicans are taught. Forty-thousand first-year students at 16 universities were evaluated for the POMA/Ministry of Higher Learning (SEESCYT) study. The students showed below average problem-solving skills, but acceptable scores in language and reasoning skills. Students at the Technological Institute of Santo Domingo …

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The Tourism Promotion Council (Confotur) of the Ministry of Tourism has met twice this month, with another session pending for the end of the month. The meetings are to decide on tourism development projects that had been submitted months ago. Manuel Quiterio Cedeno writes in El Caribe that many cases date back to 2006, while …

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While the University of Puerto Rico and Universidad Central del Este are focusing on the genetic composition of Dominican residents in the East, the Museum of Dominican Man is also studying the identity heritage in a separate study. Juan Rodriguez Acosta, director of the Museum of Dominican Man (MHD) said that the study, “Genetic Structure …

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The director of the Maternidad San Lorenzo de los Minas, the largest maternity center in the eastern part of Santo Domingo, says that 60% of the budget of the hospital is spent on Haitians that come to the hospital to give birth. The public hospital provides free assistance to patients, regardless of their legal status …

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The General Prosecutor’s Office has issued a document whereby it does not object that the Supreme Court of Justice annul a sentence that condemns the president and vice executive of the Banco Nacional de Credito (Bancredito) to eight years in jail for fraud against bank customers. The communication is signed in the name of the …

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The Police arrested 21 more people suspect of involvement in the seven-person drug massacre that occurred in Paya, Bani last month. Four of those arrested are foreigners from Ecuador and French Guyana. Hoy reports the Police had been trailing the group and decided to arrest them before they left the county, via the DR-Haiti border. …

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Mets Pitcher Ambiorix Burgos maintains he is innocent after a judge ordered him to jail for three months at the Nagua jail in a traffic accident that killed two women on the Cabrera-Nagua highway in the northeast. Prosecutor Raul Quiroz says this is only the beginning of the case and that a full investigation is …

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A coffee-growers association in Bonao has won the RD$6.5 million prestigious “Brugal Premia Su Gente” community award. The Asociacion de Caficultores La Independencia won in the category of environmental protection. Others winning the awards that were announced last night at an event at the Casa San Pablo were the Grupo Fe y Alegria at the …

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President Leonel Fernandez met briefly yesterday with Senator Wilton Guerrero of Peravia who has denounced alleged complicity between high-ranking officials and drug traffickers. The meeting nevertheless took place in the presence of most of the PLD senators and allied parties. Issues such as constitutional reform and budget allotments for the provinces were the main focus …

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The state university UASD and private universities Universidad Nacional Pedro Henriquez Urena (UNPHU), Universidad Catolica de Santo Domingo (UCSD), Instituto Tecnologico de Santo Domingo (INTEC) and Universidad Interamericana have joined a movement that is calling for the rewriting of the Dominican Constitution to be left up to the “constituent body” of elected specialists. By law, …

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