2010 – Page 263

The Central Electoral Board (JCE) plenary body will meet today to go through a marathon-like agenda that includes 34 appeals for revision, correction, verification or challenges by aspiring candidates. The JCE will review the congressional candidates who were registered with the aim of accepting or rejecting them. Of the cases that will be heard, 11 …

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Commenting on the appeals regarding candidates in the municipal and congressional election of 16 May 2010, in Sunday’s Hoy newspaper Juan Bolivar Diaz wrote about what he describes as the elections just being another example of the “business of politics.” He quotes former foreign minister during the Hipolito Mejia administration, Hugo Tolentino Dipp, who presided …

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All Ministry of Public Health employees contribute RD$50 every month for life and accident insurance. The company that provides the insurance coverage is, as it so happens, run by a sister of Health Minister Bautista Rojas Gomez. The revelation was made by Nuria Piera on her Saturday night Channel 9 television show, Nuria a las …

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Operation Walk at the Plaza de la Salud is helping 50 people to walk again. The free surgical procedures are being carried out by Dominican physicians, accompanied by doctors from the Brigham and Women’s Hospital of Boston, US. This is the third year of the medical initiative that is valued at RD$20 million, as reported …

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The head of the Dominican Catholic Church, Nicolas de Jesus Cardinal Lopez Rodriguez, has added his voice to the criticisms of the infamous “barrilito” – little barrel. This slush fund, a perk for National Congress members, has come under fire lately from a broad spectrum of civil and legal groups. The Dominican version of what …

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A short-circuit in the underground high-tension line system that services Las Americas International Airport caused havoc for passengers yesterday. The airport’s electricity system failed and the main terminal lost power. Hundreds of people were stranded for long periods as only one of the boarding gates was operating. The incident began at 12:30pm. Yolanda Manan, spokesperson …

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According to the Dominican Chamber of Insurers and Re-Insurers (CODOAR), over the last 14 months, from January 2009 until February 2010, an average of 7 vehicles were stolen every day, a total of 2,605 in all. Cadoar says that they paid out RD$350 million in claims to cover the theft of 436 fully insured vehicles …

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While the figures don’t always tally, the National Police is reporting a reduction in traffic fatalities in 2009. During last year 1,020 people lost their lives in traffic accidents across the country, according to National Police statistics for 2009, delivered to the National Congress last week. There were 971 male and 118 female victims, including …

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Writing in Listin Diario today, lawyer Vinicio Castillo Seman warns that international pressures aimed at solving the problems in Haiti are motivating an increase in the flow of migration to the Dominican Republic. He comments on the recent United Nations report that criticizes what it calls “discriminatory and racist practices” in the DR towards Haiti, …

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Former Colombian ambassador to the Dominican Republic, Jorge Enrique Garavito Duran seems to have been the person responsible for introducing Spaniard Arturo del Tiempo Marques to President Leonel Fernandez in 2005. The ambassador sent a letter to Listin Diario, explaining that he met Del Tiempo in the DR. “I met him in Santo Domingo in …

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