2012 – Page 255

The Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) and the Dominican Republic’s Technical Office for Ground Transport (OTTT) recently agreed to work together to train thousands of public transport drivers in an effort to mitigate the violence and traffic accidents that have escalated over the past three years. OTTT Director Julio Horton and Cesario Acevedo, ADRA-Dominican …

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The Dominican ambassador to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Mario Arvelo Caamano, and a Chilean, Oscar Godoy, have been elected vice presidents of the 32nd Regional Conference of the UN FAO for the 2012-2014 term. The selection took place at a meeting headed by Argentina’s deputy minister of Agriculture Lorenzo Basso, who …

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Foreign trade specialist Pedro Agustin Breton Estevez has told Hoy newspaper that the DR is the leading importer of food from the United States among the DR-CAFTA signatory countries. He made the comment to refute statements from Customs director Rafael Camilo, who had denied mass imports of food products were taking place. Breton Estevez referred …

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The US research, strategy and media firm, Bendixen and Amandi International has presented the results of research carried out amongst 1,352 voters between 23 and 31 March, which placed PRD candidate Hipolito Mejia in first place with 51.4% of the votes ahead of Danilo Medina (PLD) with 39.7%. There was a margin of error of …

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The Dominican Republic and the Organization of American States (OAS) have signed an agreement for the privileges and immunities of the observers who will oversee the country’s presidential elections on May 20 when some 6.5 million citizens will vote for the country’s President and Vice President. For the first time in the country’s history, voters …

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Senator Felix Bautista is denying the recent accusations that he financed Haitian President Michel Martelly’s election campaign, or that he ever gave him money, and said that he had all the documentation necessary to prove that the accusations against him, made in the program Nuria on Channel 9, and other media, were false, and formed …

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Hector Cabral, who pleaded guilty in October to unauthorized practice of medicine in the United States, has been sentenced to 250 hours of community service in his native Dominican Republic. Cabral, 52, is Dominican and licensed to practice plastic surgery in the Dominican Republic, but not in the US. He could not be prosecuted further …

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The Dominican Electricity Transmission Company (ETED) said on Tuesday, 3 April that a second transmission tower was on the point of collapse as sixteen of its supports had been stolen. Consequently ETED had to take the Hainamosa-Yamasa-Monte Plata transmission line out of service for six hours, leaving a number of areas without power. The damage …

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The sentence handed down to the Dominican Republic by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) for the disappearance of university professor Narciso Gonzalez (Narcisazo) in May 1994 has generated a variety of reactions. The IACHR imposed a fine of US$393,200 for negligence in investigating his disappearance. The government said yesterday, Tuesday, 3 April that …

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The United States Embassy has announced that the cost of applying for Non- Immigrant visas, which include transit visas, will be increased from US$140 to US$160 from 13 April due to the costs of implementing security systems and improving the visa process. The press release states that the current cost of the Non-Immigrant visa does …

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