2012 – Page 173

The Popular Front (FALPO) has described the plight of the people who were injured during the recent protests in Salcedo as both difficult and dramatic, saying that many did not go to hospital out of fear caused by the psychological trauma of the aggression inflicted by the military and police. Local FALPO spokesman Rafael Ramos …

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Indomina, the leading filmmaking media company in the Dominican Republic, is working on its first film. Movies.ie announces that Sean Astin (‘The Lord of the Rings,’ ‘The Goonies’), Brando Eaton (‘American Horror Story,’ ‘Dexter’) and Ben Hollingsworth (‘Suits,’ ‘The Joneses’) are set to lead ‘Cabin Fever: Patient Zero,’ a prequel to Eli Roth’s 2002 horror …

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The organizers of the Miss World pageant in the Dominican Republic have chosen Sally Aponte to replace Jenny Blanco. Blanco had to stand down because of age restrictions. Aponte will travel to Ordos in the Chinese autonomous province of Inner Mongolia, for the contest that will take place on 16 August. It will be transmitted …

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The Dominican government’s People’s Pharmacy program was recognized yesterday, Monday 25 June at the 10th Anniversary of the United Nations Public Service Day Awards Ceremony. The United Nations presented the Dominican Republic with the prestigious award in the category of improving the delivery of public services for the program that is carried out by the …

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The Organization of American States (OAS) has accepted a request from the Dominican Republic to analyze the crisis created after the removal of President Fernando Lugo in Paraguay. An extraordinary session of the OAS will convene today, Tuesday 26 June at 2:30pm, reports the DR’s permanent representative in Washington. Ambassador Roberto Saladin sent messages to …

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An estimated 133,000 high school seniors are set to take the National Standardized Educational Tests starting tomorrow, Wednesday 27 June. This number includes 31,271 students who have tests pending from former years. Some 31% of the students registered in the fourth year of high school were excluded from these tests because they have yet to …

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The joint commission that is studying the Supplementary Budget, which increases the current budget by some RD$51 billion, will present a favorable report to the full bodies of the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies for the government to authorize the issue US$500 million in sovereign bonds towards the electricity subsidy. The bonds issue is …

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The president of the Hacienda Commission, Tommy Galan, has reiterated his criticism of the fact that despite executive vice president Celso Marranzini’s achievements in organizing the Public Electricity Corporation (CDEEE), this has not translated into any reduction in the subsidy. He complained that on the contrary, year after year, the resources demanded by the CDEEE …

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The Inter-American Development Bank representative in the Dominican Republic, Manuel Labrado, considers the debt level of the Dominican Republic to be “normal,” as reported in Diario Libre. He estimated the Dominican debt at around a reasonable 30%. Labrado said the IDB has approved around US$300 million for the Dominican public sector, and another US$70 million …

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At a gold price of around US$1,400 per ounce and a silver price of about US$28 per ounce, the Pan Terra Gold mining company says that its Las Lagunas plant could generate around US$300 million in surplus cash for its investors over the next six and a half years. The company says that the expectation …

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