2012News

President Fernandez inaugurates schools and a chapel

President Leonel Fernandez, accompanied by Education Minister Josefina Pimentel, inaugurated two schools and a Catholic chapel in Los Girasoles, Pantoja and Villa Linda, in the municipality of Los Alcarrizos, built at a cost of over RD$93 million, yesterday, Thursday 24 May. Pimentel said that the 105 new schools that had been inaugurated during the Fernandez …
2012News

DR drinks a lot

A study of drinking patterns in Latin America by the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO) in Costa Rica shows that Dominican men are only second to Venezuelans when it comes to alcohol consumption. Alcohol Consumption Patterns in Latin America revealed there are differences in consumption. Carlos Sojo, chief researcher, said the study found …
2012News

Cyber war at the JCE

In the hours before and during the elections there was a behind-the-scenes cybernetic war that forced the Central Electoral Board (JCE) to maximize the use of anti-hacking technology to ensure that there was no manipulation of the data, according to a report in Listin Diario. A source told the newspaper that many acts of manipulation …