2011 – Page 39

Donor countries and friends of Haiti met yesterday at the United Nations headquarters and committed to move from words to actions and increase efforts towards the rebuilding of Haiti. The initiative came as part of the Ministerial Meeting for Haiti, headed by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her husband, former US President Bill …

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President Leonel Fernandez has been awarded the Global Women and Children’s Health Award by South-South News. Upon receiving the award, Fernandez highlighted his government’s efforts to benefit women and children and how family health coverage has been expanded. He says the initiatives have contributed to a substantial reduction of maternal and child mortality, as reported …

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The Ministry of Public Health reported yesterday that it has spent around RD$900 million this year on medications to cover the free treatment of a total of 5,671 patients suffering from catastrophic, high-cost illnesses in this country. Minister Bautista Rojas Gomez told Listin Diario reporters that the beneficiaries are people on very low incomes and …

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The transparency in the tenders for pharmaceuticals and sanitation materials to supply the nation’s Public Health programs carried out by the Program of Essential Medicines (Promese) has reportedly attracted the attention of some of the free zone companies established in the country. During a luncheon meeting hosted by Luisa Fernandez Duran, the chairwoman of the …

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The National Business Council (Conep) asked yesterday for the consequences of the application of the general rule number 13-2011, which is aimed at forcing banking and financial institutions to withhold 1% of the interests that the companies receive for their deposits, to be studied and revised. Conep, which is headed by Manuel Diez Cabral, is …

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The magistrate for the Monte Plata court for Boys, Girls and Adolescents, Aura Mercedes Raquel Hernandez Caba, has annulled a birth certificate issued for the daughter of Puerto Rican drug capo Jose David Figueroa Agosto and his wife Leavy Yadhira Nin Batista, because the birth certificate had been obtained with false documents. Magistrate Hernandez Caba …

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The National Police arrested two Haitians yesterday for the gruesome slaying of a Frenchman who lived in Las Terrenas. According to El Nuevo Diario the Police found the victim’s motorcycle and several other items that belonged to Jerone Veste Pass who lived in La Playa section of the beach community. The two who were arrested, …

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A commission of high-ranking officers headed by the Chief of Police himself, Major General Jose Armando Polanco Gomez, and the head of the National Drug Control Department (DNCD), Rolando Rosado Mateo, is looking for four men who killed Lieutenant Colonel Cesar Augusto Ubri Bocio of the National Army at point-blank range with three shotgun blasts …

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The mayor of Philadelphia has posted a US$25,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and capture of the two suspects in the murder of the Dominican-American family in their bodega in North Philadelphia last week. Mayor Michael A. Nutter made the announcement last Friday. The robbers killed Porfirio Nunez, his wife and sister. Nutter …

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The National Police announced the arrest of several members of a gang that has killed several foreigners in Santiago over recent weeks. During a chilling press conference covered by the nation’s media, the Chief of Police, the head of the DNCD and the District Attorney for Santiago presented the case against a series of contract …

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