2010 – Page 190

The Chamber of Deputies has approved a US$78.1 million loan for the construction of the Guaigui Dam in La Vega province. The government is borrowing from the London branch of Deutsche Bank. The agreement between the bank and the Dominican government involves US$70 million in funds with an additional US$8.1 million to cover the cost …

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Two posters promoting First Lady Margarita Cedeno’s 2012 presidential nomination have been launched in an online campaign that is gathering strength. Both posters feature a photograph of Cedeno and one of them says “4 more years, we win and then… Margarita PLD” and the second one says “With her, we continue with him, Dr. Margarita …

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Yesterday the Central Electoral Board (JCE) Disputes Chamber heard the first 23 appeals filed against local election boards decisions. Today the chamber will disclose the mechanisms the Chamber of the Board used to make their decisions. The JCE also decided to order the National District Election Board to go over the invalid and questioned votes …

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Ethics Commission president Marino Vinicio Castillo says that TV journalist Nuria Piera must present the evidence for her claims that the government has its supporters on its payroll. On her Monday show on Channel 37 CDN, Piera revealed that as much as RD$17 billion could be spent on these secret payrolls every year. The payrolls …

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According to reports from Cotui, hundreds of workers at the Barrick Gold mining company have gone on strike. They are demanding that human resources contractor Grana y Montero increase their wages by 35%, pay them medical insurance, and overtime. The protests began on Monday, as reported in Hoy. Workers’ spokesman Arquimedes Mateo said that around …

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Religious, popular, barrio and community organizations from the southern areas of the city of Santiago held a mass march yesterday as a way of calling on the government to restart a series of half-finished projects and other demands. Holding up banners and chanting slogans, the demonstrators set out from Barrio Nuevo, La Herradura, and arrived …

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Having to get up an hour earlier than usual is what most students and employees have to do of late. Why? Because of the lengthy traffic jams now affecting central Santo Domingo. As reported in El Caribe, Ernestina Gonzalez lives in Mendoza, in Santo Domingo East, and she works in an office in downtown Santo …

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The president of the Confederation of Small and Medium-sized Businesses (Codopyme) has complained that while Law 488-08 benefits the sector, its fulfillment is being practically ignored by the government. He also complained that two years after the law was approved, its ruling has not yet been drafted, as reported in Listin Diario. He said that …

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The coordinator of the United Nations Human Development Office in the country has warned that the Dominican economy is very vulnerable. Miguel Ceara-Hatton said that research shows that the more the country grows, the fewer jobs it generates. He says this is due to the low impact that growth has on job creation. He said …

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Miguel Ceara, coordinator of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) program in the DR, says that higher education is another area that did not do well in the analysis carried out by the UNDP for the Ministry of Economy in that it highlights the fact that the scant information available on the quality of university …

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