2010 – Page 60

The Ministry of Public Works says that it is spending US$1.9 billion on road construction, repairs and rebuilding on the country’s main roads and highways. In the north, Minister Victor Diaz Rua told reporters that the Ministry of Public Works was spending US$117 million on the Santiago Beltway, part of the Viadom Project. The Beltway …

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In response to the outbreak of cholera in neighboring Haiti, the Dominican authorities are strengthening preventive measures aimed at keeping cholera out of the country. This work, led by the Ministry of Public Health, intensified yesterday. More than 3,000 cases of cholera and around 250 fatalities, 14 of them along the border, have been reported …

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The Coca Cola Company is investing US$9.5 million to produce mango juice in Haiti. John Murphy, president of Coca Cola’s Latin Center Business Unit said it is a corporate social responsibility initiative. The company now employs 800 people in Haiti, the largest single private employer. He said the idea got its start in September and …

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Even President Leonel Fernandez seems to think that people are sabotaging the school breakfast program because of what he called “interests”. The President, as reported in Hoy, announced the formation of a high-level commission to get to the bottom of the series of incidents in which students have fallen ill after eating and drinking the …

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Regional free trade zone executives will be at the Paradisus Palma Real in Punta Cana from 27-29 October to discuss regional business, markets, competitiveness actions, new sales opportunities and corporate social responsibility actions. “We are going to unfold a portrait of the operational realities of free zones in Latin America, presented by businesspeople and government …

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Listin Diario reports that forged 25 peso coins are in circulation. To check their authenticity, just note that the forged versions can be bent. They are similar in size and color, and more easily confused in darkness. The forged coins read 2005 as the year of emission. The genuine coins were first issued in 2006.

The Dominican Association of Foreign Companies (Asiex) has appointed Salvador Demallistre as its new executive director. He replaces Pablo Linares who had served in the post for 15 years. Demallistre is a former general manager at DHS and Helados Bon. He has also been a driving force behind the Junior Achievement educational programs in the …

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Hundreds of victims of the flooding caused by the opening of the Tavera Dam floodgates during Tropical Storm Olga have marched on the local office of the National Housing Institute (INVI) in Santiago de los Caballeros. They are calling for the construction of 315 houses that were promised after the floodwaters washed away their homes …

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A female assistant prosecutor, 33, was gunned down near her home last night. The National Police are investigating the confusing incident, which resulted in the death of the assistant District Attorney for the National District, Gissel Odaliza Reyes Diaz, 33. She was killed by two people who intercepted her a few meters from her house …

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Not to be missed is the Wednesday, 27 October jazz en Dominicana 8:30pm concert at Casa de Teatro, a warm-up for the Music, Identity and Culture in the Caribbean Conference scheduled for April. There will also be quality Latin jazz at the Fiesta Sunset Jazz at the Dominican Fiesta, on Friday, 29 October with the …

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