2012 – Page 186

In many areas today, 14 June, will just be another day. But exactly 53 years ago a group of young men staged one of the most daring invasions ever carried out against a dictatorship. The invasion of Estero Hondo, Maimon and Constanza was a three-pronged attack on the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo and his 30-year …

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The director general of Equality Policies at the Ministry or Women, Maria Ramos, says that the increase in violence against women requires greater financial support as statistics show that 200 women are being murdered each year. She also told El Nuevo Diario that the government’s financial support has to be combined with new public policies …

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Despite a Presidential order last September to purchase equipment for blocking cell phone signals in the nation’s prisons, nine months later only two of the 36 penitentiaries have implemented the measure. The order, formalized in Decree 564-11, said that for reasons of “national security” this policy was needed as it had been proven that criminal …

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A young man was shot dead and a woman was injured yesterday, Wednesday 13 June, in a shooting incident between demonstrators and police during the indefinite strike that is affecting the city of Salcedo. The strike was called by the Broad Front for Popular Struggle (FALPO). The fatality was identified as Jonathan Paulino, 31, while …

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Casa de Teatro in Santo Domingo’s Colonial City is hosting the Casa de Teatro Jazz Festival every Thursday until 26 July. Aquiles Baez from Venezuela opens the festival this evening, 14 June. Next is Band Fred Deshaief from Guadeloupe-France. On Thursday, 28 June, Wilfrido Vargas will join Sistema Temperado with Rafelito Mirabal for a memorable …

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Yesterday, Tuesday June 12, President Leonel Fernandez inaugurated six projects in the southwest of the country, built at a cost of over RD$700 million. They included a housing project in Cristobal in Independencia province, a road reconstruction and school in El Cerro in Bahoruco, and a technical high school in Jimani, as reported in Listin …

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The new migration law is likely to cause problems for foreign workers and their employers, according to Business Week. The new law, which came into effect on June 1 requires non-Dominican workers to have a work permit that can be obtained with a passport, a visa, a birth certificate, a medical certificate and a criminal …

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Whilst handing over computer equipment to the Emergency Operations Center (COE), the US ambassador in the Dominican Republic, Raul Yzaguirre said that if US citizens continued to be robbed along the main roads around Las Americas International Airport (AILA) he would have to issue a new warning but this time with more authority. As quoted …

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According to a report sent to the Organization of American States (OAS) by Hipolito Mejia, the PRD presidential candidate in last month’s election, Danilo Medina’s election victory was the result of a chain of events that violated the laws and the rules of a democratic state. The report, dated May 29, said that the government …

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According to PRD secretary Geanilda Vasquez, the party will deposit documents at the Central Electoral Board (JCE) today, Wednesday 13 June, proposing Andres Bautista as the new president of the party instead of Miguel Vargas Maldonado, who was suspended from his post by a faction led by Hipolito Mejia at a meeting of the Political …

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