2010 – Page 271

Economy & Planning Minister Temistocles Montas and PUCMM university rector Monsignor Agripino Nunez Collado have announced that the proposal for a National Development Plan for 2010-2030 is ready for discussion. According to spokespersons for the government-sponsored plan, points of view of all national sectors have been taken into account, including politicians, industrialists, labor unions and …

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The IX National Population and Housing Census, scheduled for late October or November, expects to count 10 million people and visit 2,500,000 houses, according to the director of the National Statistics Office (ONE). Pablo Tactuk said that the census would take a week to carry out and that they will be recruiting 56,000 census takers …

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Central Electoral Board (JCE) president Julio Cesar Castanos Guzman revealed that the JCE received RD$344 million yesterday for the celebration of the upcoming congressional and municipal elections on 16 May 2010. He said that a further RD$200 million would be given to the board over the next few days, bringing the total to RD$544 million …

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Education Minister Melanio Paredes announced yesterday that milk would be taken out of the school breakfast programs at the schools where food poisoning cases have occurred until the causes are determined. Paredes made the announcement after meeting with representatives of the companies that supply the food products for the School Breakfast Program. He added that …

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President Leonel Fernandez has told journalist Huchi Lora that the government is backing out of its financial support for the construction of a baseball, commercial, hotel and residential complex next to the Quisqueya Ball Park. Today’s Hoy newspaper reports that 48 hours after the announcement, engineer Jesus Rodriguez Sandoval, the chief promoter of the project, …

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The Chamber of Deputies declared yesterday that the legislative proposal authorizing the emission of US$1 billion in bonds by the President was urgent and approved it after two consecutive readings. The bonds will be placed on the international capital market. The initiative was approved with the majority vote of the ruling PLD party and allies …

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Exiled and deposed Honduran President Manuel Zelaya was the person who told the Dominican government that Venezuela Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro would visit, according to a report in today’s Listin Diario. President Leonel Fernandez was expecting to meet President Hugo Chavez on his return from a meeting with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in …

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Business, tourism and environmental organizations from Cabarete are asking the ruling PLD party and its ally the PRSC to refrain from presenting the candidacy of Gabriel (Canoa) Mora for mayor of the Cabarete municipal district. Letters were sent to President Leonel Fernandez, who is president of the PLD, and to Foreign Minister Carlos Morales Troncoso, …

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Corruption in the security forces is the great shared evil that threatens respect for human rights in the Dominican Republic and Haiti, according to a report from the United States government. The document, which analyzes the human rights situation in the world each year, and sums up the human rights issues in both countries, highlights …

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Raul Yzaguirre, US ambassador nominee to the DR, appeared before the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee yesterday in a confirmation hearing. Yzaguirre, a human rights activist, said during the hearing that one of his primary concerns, if confirmed would be public security and safety. He said he would work closely with Dominican authorities on anti-corruption …

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