2010 – Page 14

203 organizations have joined together to support the call for the assignment of 4% of GDP to education, approximately double what the government is allocating at present. According to El Nuevo Diario, the “Coalicion Education Digna” is calling for the rejection of the Senate approval of the 2011 Budget and the Addendum, which failed to …

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The most recent Gallup-Hoy poll shows that there has been a significant fall in President Leonel Fernandez’s popularity, and his apparent re-election ambitions were rejected by more than two thirds of the people who responded to the poll. Nonetheless, the political opposition does not appear to be capable of capitalizing on this. One important element …

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A report in Listin Diario’s economic section says that the government has taken on US$2.781 billion in foreign loans over the past seven years using the excuse of improving the electricity sector. Journalist Jairon Severino observes that the government has not allocated funds from the National Budget to any major electricity project, and preferred to …

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The Chamber of Deputies (CD) will hear today the proposal on the General Budget for 2011. The total proposed is RD$390,475,775,514. The deputies have predicted approval of the project exactly as approved by the Senate of the Republic last Friday, only with the addendum from the President that assigns funds for the creation of the …

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The Herrera Industries Association has warned Hacienda Minister Vicente Bengoa that the private sector’s support for the agreement with the International Monetary Fund was not given so that laws could be violated or for complicity with government overspending. AEIH president Wadi Cano said that the business sector had made the agreement on the understanding that …

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The IX National Census on Population and Housing will continue across the country this week. Unofficially, Diario Libre was reporting that the census taking is being done by telephone, due to the fact that many people have called in saying they have not been counted. The census people reported that they do not have a …

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The National Social Security Council (CNSS) confirmed in a press release yesterday that they had ordered the creation of a special RD$7.5 billion fund with the earnings from the Worker’s Compensation Insurance (SRL), after an actuarial study and in response to two of the major business organizations in the country. The petition was supported by …

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PRD presidential hopeful Luis Abinader officially withdrew his nomination bid yesterday and signed an alliance agreement to support former President Hipolito Mejia’s nomination bid. In his speech as he signed his pact with Mejia, Abinader said that he was withdrawing his nomination attempt as he looked at the internal polls and recognizing that the former …

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A Police colonel who apparently could not take “no” for an answer, along with a private, were both suspended pending a hearing before the District Attorney in Santiago. Lieutenant Colonel de la Cruz Taveras and Private Jose Francisco Reynoso Santos were accused of assault on a female colleague, Sergeant Mildred Cepeda Suarez. The case file …

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On Friday night, the Aguilas travelled to Santo Domingo and took on the rather hapless Tigres del Licey. Lefthander John Halama did the honors for the Aguilas, and pitched six good innings of one-run baseball, while the Aguilas racked up a 6-1 lead. Omar Luna got five hits in six trips to the plate. The …

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