2011

El Dia’s editorial today, Thursday 11 December 2014 urges the signing of the Fiscal Pact to reduce distortions in the taxation and government spending. For starters, there are many laws that allocate percentages of the budget for 140% of the total of the budget. “This is an absurd situation that needs to be corrected,” writes …

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There is a major problem with the efficiency of traffic fine collection in the DR. As reported in El Caribe, only 3% of drivers who are fined actually pay up. As reported, some have up to 150 fines pending in the system. Making matters worse, El Caribe reported that the Banco de Reservas (where one …

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Foreign Minister Carlos Morales Troncoso expressed the government’s condemnation of a robbery on the Duarte Highway on Thursday after arriving to Santiago’s Cibao International Airport. The Chief of Police, Major General Jose Armando Polanco Gomez announced the arrest of three men who allegedly took part in the robbery of Haitian Minister of Haitians Living Abroad …

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Despite repeated calls over the loudspeakers, the owners of two black bags left at the Gregorio Luperon International Airport remained unclaimed. The National Drug Control Department (DNCD) took 50 packages of cocaine weighing over 53 kilograms, distributed in two bags that were abandoned by persons unknown in the Gregorio Luperon International Airport, before their owners …

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A scandal has broken out in the Jose Maria Cabral y Baez Regional University Hospital in Santiago after several patients complained that they had been cheated by a false doctor who performed operations and consultations in the medical center. “Dr. Alcantara,” as he calls himself, has cheated at least seven patients from whom he took …

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In a tragic reflection of so many of society’s ills, a young adult male killed his underage lover and her new boyfriend, a man beat his former wife to death with a length of pipe and another sprayed his former wife with gasoline and set her on fire. She later died of her injuries. The …

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The Collegiate Court of San Pedro de Macoris released four men yesterday, all well-known drug traffickers according to El Nuevo Diario. Prosecutor Henry Estevez de Leon said that he would appeal the decision of the Collegiate Tribunal of the Penal Chamber of the Court of the First Instance in San Pedro de Macoris. Apparently one …

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The National Meteorological Office (Onamet) is forecasting scattered showers for many parts of the country today. Onamet says that temperatures will continue to be comfortable and in the mountain valleys might even go down to as low as 10 degrees Celsius. The skies will be partly cloudy and a change in the dominant breezes might …

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As part of her tour of Costa Rica, Mexico and Dominican Republic, Israel’s Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Orit Noked will be in the Dominican Republic from 1 to 2 November. She is traveling with representatives of Israeli agricultural companies and will meet with Foreign Affairs Minister Carlos Morales Troncoso, Agriculture Minister Salvador Jimenez …

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Resolution 32/2011 dated 20 October the Central Electoral Board (JCE) authorizes civil registration officers to issue birth certificates to people whose Dominican nationality is under investigation, as reported in Hoy. The decision on whether to accept the cases under investigation is left to the JCE assembly. This resolution contradicts comments by JCE president Roberto Rosario, …

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