2010 – Page 229

Economy, Planning and Development Minister Temistocles Montas admitted yesterday that the government has had an RD$18 billion budgetary deficit during the first quarter of this year. He added however that the 2.6% deficit of the GDP was taken into account in the National Budget and would be compensated by foreign borrowing. “We will end the …

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Education Minister Melanio Paredes said that the 56 children who required medical treatment at the Hospital Desiderio Acosta in Rio San Juan after drinking school milk suffered from intolerance to the flavored milk and had not been poisoned by the Ladom product. The children suffered nausea and stomachaches. Paredes said the milk drink would be …

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“Once more into the fray” seems to be the government’s slogan when it comes to a wage increase for the nation’s health workers, including technicians, nurses and doctors. El Nuevo Diario is reporting that the government and the Dominican Medical Association (CMD) have agreed to continue their negotiations on salaries and other demands during a …

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An explosion of a transformer at the San Pedro 1 electricity substation caused a major blackout throughout San Pedro de Macoris and several other eastern municipalities and cities yesterday evening. The explosion occurred at 9:30pm, causing a fire that was not extinguished by firefighters until 11:30pm. The municipalities of San Pedro de Macoris, Consuelo and …

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The Senate has delegated the study of the reports made by the Chamber of Accounts on the fiscal periods 1998, 1999, 2002, 2005, 2006 and 2009 to its Hacienda and Budget commissions, but these have yet to issue an opinion. Hoy reports that this contradicts the Constitution, which stipulates that these reports need to be …

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The United Nations Development Program National Coordinator in the DR, Miguel Ceara-Hatton writes today in Clave that there is a distortion in the way that Dominicans evaluate government officials. “In the Dominican political system people think development is about things,” he writes. He explains that this kind of thinking extends to Presidents and even city …

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The Assistant Secretary of the Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration in the US, Eric P. Schwartz, has paid a visit to the president of the Central Electoral Board (JCE), Julio Cesar Castanos Guzman. After their meeting, Castanos Guzman told the Dominican press that he had explained how the status and documenting of foreigners in …

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Following the controversial release of accused multiple murderer Raul Serumberto Reynoso Mota (aka Vantroi) by substitute judge Raul Rosario Hernandez, the appointment of substitute judges in the judiciary has come under the media spotlight. Diario Libre concludes that many of the decisions that have been publically criticized in recent years were made by substitute judges. …

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This week the Supreme Court of Justice dismissed substitute judge Raul Rosario Hernandez for ordering the release on bail of Raul Serumberto Reynoso Mota (Vantroi) on 26 April. Vantroi is accused of 36 murders. Interestingly, El Nacional reported that judge Rosario Hernandez had less than a month left on his contract. He had been hired …

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Raul Serumberto Reynoso Mota (Vantroi) is still in jail. Assistant prosecutor for the province Omar Alvarez placed an appeal that is being studied by Judge Olga Herrera Carbuccia of the Penal Chamber of the Court of Appeals of the Province of Santo Domingo. The prosecutor is requesting a year in jail as the cases against …

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