2010 – Page 30

After presenting President Fernandez with a list of reforms needed for the administration’s National Development Strategy to succeed, international consultant Jacques Attali told reporters that the sooner the country puts 4% of the GDP into education the better. Attali said that it was clear that a “country that invests so little in education cannot be …

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The joint budget commission that is working on the 2011 budget will ask the Ministry of Hacienda for a modification of the projected budget so that a further RD$1 billion can be assigned to education. The money would come from the funds assigned to the President and to the Second Metro Line. The amount is …

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The World Bank Board of Executive Directors approved a US$150 million loan on 23 November to support the introduction of a results-based accountability system to measure progress in social protection, mainly education and health, in order to expand human capital and improve the transparency and quality of public spending. “The World Bank’s support complements the …

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Today marks the official beginning of the IX National Census of Population and Housing. This census comes eight years after the last one and will reveal how many people live in the country, their condition and other demographic variables. All this will help establish the best policies for the state, which is the fundamental reason …

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Four people in Santo Domingo West are being monitored closely after apparently contracting cholera. Three of the patients, two over 50 years of age and one 20-year old, are being treated at the Marcelino Velez Hospital in Herrera. The fourth patient, aged 68, is in the Dominican Social Security Institute (IDSS) Salvador B. Gautier Hospital. …

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The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) is preparing for 200,000 cases of cholera in Haiti over the next three months “due to the explosive nature of the epidemic”. According to El Caribe, so far there have been more than 1,400 deaths from cholera in Haiti. PAHO deputy director, Dr. Jon K Andrus, said that they …

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The Attorney General has opened the remodeled Santiago District Attorney offices, and said that the Justice Department is providing a strong response to organized crime and announced the training of a team of career prosecutors in investigative criminal procedures. Radhames Jimenez Pena said that the District Attorney and the prosecutors who will be working in …

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The NGO Citizen Participation (PC) has expressed concern about the difficulties faced by poor people who try to seek help from the justice system. PC says that this is one of the civil rights most commonly violated in the country. During an event celebrating the first anniversary of the Community House of Justice in La …

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Eddy Brito, who until this week was considered to be a minor accomplice in Jose Figueroa Agosto’s money laundering schemes, was removed from the general prison population and placed in a maximum security cell after it was revealed that he was one of the top five operatives in the Puerto Rican drug baron’s smuggling network. …

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The District Attorney for the National District, Alejandro Moscoso Segarra, has revealed that there is a possibility that the federal authorities in Puerto Rico could draw up charges against other Dominicans who may be implicated in Jose David Figueroa Agosto’s network, including individuals who are currently in jail. Diario Libre reports that Moscoso said that …

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