2011 – Page 67

The Dominican Republic National Symphony Orchestra has announced six concerts for this season. Symphony director, Maestro Jose Antonio Molina, says that several star performers will come for the season. He announced that director Missak Baghboudarian from Syria would be here to celebrate the music of Franz Liszt with two of his concerts for piano and …

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President Leonel Fernandez defended his government’s education spending levels during yesterday’s inauguration ceremony of the Instituto Politecnico Aragon, a vocational high school in Los Guaricanos, a slum area in northern Santo Domingo. During the event, Fernandez said that when he began his second term in 2004, the budget for education was RD$15 billion. He said …

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President Leonel Fernandez has promoted seven National Police colonels to the rank of brigadier general and shuffled many in the Police. By decree 486-11, Fernandez promoted to generals Francisco Romer Francisco Lopez, Juan Francisco Campusano Jimenez, Pablo Almonte Roberto Morales, Luis Perez Sanchez Neivis, Ludwig Suardy Miguel Correa, Orison Olivenca Minaya and Radhames Aquino Robles …

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The Ministry of Public Health has announced the start of a new campaign to encourage breast-feeding among Dominican mothers. As reported in Listin Diario, the Dominican Republic has one of the lowest exclusive breast-feeding levels in Latin America and the Caribbean, at 7.8% of mothers. The campaign is being sponsored by Unicef, the Ministry of …

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The Coalition for an Independent and Transparent Justice is calling for the selection of judges who will serve in the higher courts by the National Judicial Council (CNM) to be carried out with transparency. At a press conference in the Conference Room of the National Association of Young Entrepreneurs (Anje), Francisco Alvarez, Samir Chami Isa, …

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The Institutionalism and Justice Foundation (FINJUS) has joined voices urging President Leonel Fernandez to make public the procedures and regulations that govern the actions of the National Judicial Council (CNM). The first session of the council was held behind closed doors. Tulio Castanos Guzman, executive vice president of FINJUS says that this is mandated in …

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The National Association of Young Entrepreneurs (ANJE) has described as “irresponsible” the way the government has been reporting on the national debt, as reported in El Dia. ANJE criticized the government for trying to minimize the current levels of debt compared to the debt taken by exporting countries such as Mexico. ANJE president Lara Guerrero …

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Writing in today’s El Caribe, lawyer Marisol Vicens criticizes the government for establishing a 10-day term for the presentation of candidacies for judges for the Supreme Court of Justice, Supreme Electoral Court and the Constitutional Court. She also criticizes the ruling for the selection, which has not be made public, for allowing a high level …

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815 kilos of cocaine were seized yesterday, thwarting a trans-shipment operation to Puerto Rico estimated to be worth around US$25 million, as reported in El Dia. The drugs are said to belong to the Colombian Norte del Valle cartel, made famous by the popular TV series “El cartel de los sapos” (The Cartel of the …

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The Police say that Crismeide Guerrero (La Gorda) arrested in the case of missing 27-year old Wilma Teresa Martinez Barrientos, confessed that the woman had been murdered and beheaded. Martinez, described as a businesswoman, has been missing since 8 July. The Police reported Guerrero took the police to Km. 5 of the Miches-El Seibo road …

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