2008 – Page 82

The Dominican College of Journalists (CDP) is condemning the Police for tampering with a photograph sent to El Nacional newspaper, depicting the eviction of Dominican Medical Association (CMD) president Waldo Ariel Suero from the Ministry of Public Health building as part of the CMD’s campaign for increased wages for public hospital doctors. CDP president Mercedes …

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Police have announced the suspension of the director of the local division of the International Police (INTERPOL), Colonel Frener Bello Arias, who is being investigated for extortion. Police chief Rafael Guillermo Guzman Fermin says that he has requested the assistance of an assistant prosecutor to investigate the case. Colonel Cabrera Sarita has been provisionally appointed …

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Police have announced they have broken up a powerful gang that they say committed robberies at the BHD and Asociacion Dominicana de Ahorros y Prestamos banks, La Sirena and Ole supermarkets, among other companies. The police accuse fugitive Julio Ehrain Christiaan from Curacao and Dominican Jose Santana Rodriguez (El Gordo) of heading the group. The …

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USS Kearsage is docked off Santo Domingo Port and doctors on board plan to see approximately 6,000 low-income patients. The medical team on board includes ophthalmology, dental, pediatric, and gynecology and obstetrics staff who will work from 8 to 5pm. The medical teams are working simultaneously in Santo Domingo, Bayaguana (Monte Plata) and from the …

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The Teneria Bermudez tannery has corrected an item that appeared in the local press, explaining that it has spent RD$30 million on installing a new residual water treatment plant to prevent polluting the Yaque del Norte River. The company says that it has Ministry of Environment Permit No. 0613-07 to operate. The company was fined …

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Dominican Grammy-winning songwriter Juan Luis Guerra has challenged claims that merengue is on its way out as a musical genre. During an event in his honor on radio station Zol 106.5, he said that on the contrary, doors are now open to merengue in markets where it had previously never been heard of. Guerra said …

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President Leonel Fernandez was in Miami to participate in the Miami Herald-sponsored Americas Conference at the Biltmore Hotel Thursday. Fernandez was also a keynote speaker at a Beacon Council event where he spoke and meet with around 600 Floridian businesspeople. For some days now, President Leonel Fernandez has been arguing that the DR is well …

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Despite the global crisis, growth continues at the Dominican Republic Exchange. Trading leaped to RD$25,429,696,170.23 for the first ten months of the year, for a significant 221.31% growth compared to the same period last year. The total volume traded for the year 2007 was RD$15,414,587,959.17 Three new issues were approved during the third quarter: BHD …

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Two US companies, Hart Energy Consulting and Energy Security Group, have submitted a project aimed at helping implement Law 57-07 on alternative energy, specifically using ethanol mixed fuels. The project’s objective is for 10% of the local fuel consumption to come from ethanol fuel. This could greatly reduce the nation’s foreign fuel bill. Initial studies …

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The start-up of construction projects has decreased by 90% in the last two months, according to the president of the Housing Construction and Promotion Association (ACROPROVI), Jaime Gonzalez. Gonzalez blames the lag in construction on the rising financial costs. Gonzalez says that sales of new homes are down 70% in 2008, compared to 2007.