2012 – Page 260

With Holy Week just around the corner, the country’s public safety agencies are announcing plans to make the Easter vacation safer for the hundreds of thousands of people who will be on the move. Listin Diario and El Nuevo Diario both report on these safety measures. The National Police have announced that 14,000 agents will …

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Seven universities have signed up for a program that will provide professional study options as well as technical training for inmates at the country’s correctional and rehabilitation centers. The project was signed by the Attorney General of the Republic, Radhames Jimenez Pena and the rectors of the Pontifical Catholic University Madre y Maestra (PUCMM), Monsignor …

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News of the appointment of the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo (UASD) to the Administrative Board of the Rosa Emilia Tavares National Cancer Institute has exposed a conflict between the sectors that make up the institution. Curiously, the university wants to head up the direction of the health center that will be inaugurated later this …

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Although Law 87-01 that created the Dominican Social Security System establishes that the government should also install daycare centers when the Family Health Insurance comes into effect, the country only has 123 such centers caring for 7,037 children under the age of five. El Nuevo Diario quotes Dr Liliam Rodriguez, the director of Daycare Centers …

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Minister of Agriculture Salvador Jimenez and the local representative of the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA), Manuel Sanchez Hermosillo signed an agreement yesterday, Wednesday 28 March for a donation of RD$170 million by the US Department of Agriculture to improve the DR’s quarantine capacity through the Food for Progress program. The IICA will …

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Danilo Medina has told an elite audience that he would sign an agreement with the International Monetary fund. The PLD presidential candidate Danilo Medina, said yesterday, Wednesday 28 March, that if he wins the 20 May election, he will work towards a new “precautionary” stand-by arrangement with the International Monetary Fund, which will be used …

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The members of the Central Electoral Board (JCE) visited the installations of the communications company Orange Dominicana yesterday, Wednesday 28 March, where they met with the main company executives and were shown the workings of the operations centers, monitoring and transmission of the election results. Eduardo Valcarcel, the vice-president of communications for Orange Dominicana, the …

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The Dominican expat vote could decide the 2012 presidential election, forecast by leading polls to be a tight race between Danilo Medina of the ruling PLD and Hipolito Mejia of the PRD. A total of 328,605 voters are registered to vote abroad, as reported in El Caribe’s historical review of the expat vote. A higher …

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The Central Electoral Board (JCE) voting list contains 6,504,943 voters for the 20 May 2012 presidential election, which is being contested by six presidential candidates. The candidates are: Hipolito Mejia, Danilo Medina, Guillermo Moreno, Max Puig, Eduardo Estrella and Julian Serulle. In the Dominican Republic, 6,176,338 voters are registered to vote, and another 328,605 are …

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In a column in today’s El Caribe, lawyer Marisol Vicens Bello describes how two years after the earthquake in Haiti, a new earthquake has shaken both countries. She calls attention to the significance of the situation where of US$500 million donated for public works in Haiti, around 70% was allocated without tender to companies controlled …

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