2012 – Page 159

The President-elect of the Dominican Republic, Danilo Medina, met yesterday afternoon, Monday 9 July, with the President of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff at the Planalto Palace. He described the meeting as “very productive.” He said that Rousseff promised support for the energy sector in the Dominican Republic. During his visit to Sao Paulo Medina spoke about …

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24/7 power for neighborhoods has almost been the norm during the Public Electricity Corporation (CDEEE) administration under Celso Marranzini, but news reports are now suggesting that blackouts may on their way back due to financial constraints. So-called 24-hour sectors have already been suffering blackouts, which had been a thing of the past for months. A …

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The Ministry of Education has released some of the results of the recent Standardized National Tests and reports that this year’s results were 5% less satisfactory than last year’s and 1% less than 2010. According to El Caribe, only 80% of the 144,570 students who took the eighth grade tests achieved a passing grade. Over …

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The Institutionalism and Justice Foundation (Finjus) is advising the Senate to introduce a series of major changes to the legislation for creating the Fundamental Law of the National Police. The proposals were aimed, according to Hoy newspaper, at keeping the Police from returning to practices common during the Trujillo dictatorship era. The bill introduces budgetary …

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The National Police has announced the arrest of two suspects in the recent robbery at the Unipollo poultry distributor in Cutupu, La Vega. The announcement was made by officers of the Department of Criminal Investigations of the Central Cibao Regional Command, headquartered in Santiago. They said that they had captured two of the seven men …

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More than 30 policemen are in detention for alleged insubordination in San Francisco de Macoris. This occurred when the group allegedly tried to free private Marino Alfonso Torres minutes after a judge had ordered him to be detained for three months of preventive custody. The police agents are being held in the high security jail …

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With both President Leonel Fernandez (on his 71st trip abroad as President) and President-elect Danilo Medina out of the country during the three-month long transition period, the nation continues to hear of spectacular robberies and acts of violence. Recently, senator Wilton Guerrero warned he was seeing what he described as “maximum tolerance” towards crime by …

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The National Department for Persecution of Administrative Corruption (DPCA, formerly Depreco) has presented formal charges of fraud against nine former officials of the Teachers Medical Insurance. They are accused of mishandling RD$540 million. The accused include deputy minister of Education and former president of the Board of Directors of the ARS-SEMMA Francisco Cruz Pascual, former …

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Yesterday, Monday 9 July the Attorney General of the Republic received two Dominicans who had been extradited from the United States. Eddy Bismarck Nunez Garrido, and Fernando Antonio Burgos Rojas were presented to the media during a press conference at the Attorney General’s offices, headed by AG Radhames Jimenez Pena, Gisela Cueto, in charge of …

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Two women whose former partners had submitted them to violence have anonymously undertaken the task of raising the awareness of hundreds of men and women all over the country in order to halt the increase of this evil in Dominican society. Sonsoles and Zoe – as they call themselves – take facilitators to communities around …

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