2012 – Page 267

According to El Dia, the 807.4 kilos of cocaine confiscated by the National Drug Control Department (DNCD) at the port of Caucedo on 14 March belonged to a notorious drug trafficker, Joaquin Guzman Loera (Capo Guzman) from the Mexican Sinaloa cartel. As a result, last week saw the arrest of two Mexicans who the authorities …

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A German man identified as 57-year old Gerhard Hans Krueger was deported to Germany on board a Condor flight from Las Americas International Airport yesterday, Thursday, 22 March. An Interpol arrest order had been issued for him for fraud in Europe. As reported, he was a fugitive from justice from Koblenz, Germany, and Interpol agents …

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President Leonel Fernandez inaugurated the Polideportivo Maximo Gomez in Bani on Tuesday March 20. The sports pavilion, which was built with funds from the Presidency’s Office of Supervising Engineers of the Presidency (OISOE), cost RD$55 million. The opening ceremony was attended by the ministers of sports, public works, administrative of the Presidency and engineers Luis …

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In response to criticism that the Ministry of Education had not achieved its goals, Minister Josefina Pimentel told reporters from Hoy newspaper that government stinginess and penny-pinching had led to RD$6.8 billion of the budgetary funding from use by the ministry being withheld. She said that this shortfall in disbursements affected the operations program that …

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The Solidarity Card, a government welfare subsidy, has provided more than RD$34 billion in aid to 893,000 families over the past seven years, according to the “Executive summary of the results of the Payment of Social Subsidies and the Network of Social Supply”. The greatest part of the subsidy has gone to the “Food is …

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The Ministry of Industry and Commerce has announced that the United States has lifted its ban on meat imports from the Dominican Republic, in place since 2001. Manuel Garcia Arevalo said that the start up of meat exports is the result of compliance with quality and sanitary standards demanded by the United States Department of …

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Conversations and compliance with requisites that were demanded by the Haitian authorities have not stopped the bureaucratic and technical difficulties that led Dominican investors to stop installing flourmills in Haiti in 2009, a joint project that was being supported by the European Union. Since 2006 the Dominican Banco de Reservas has applied to the Haitian …

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The Dominican Association of Electronic Security Companies (ADESE) favors the approval of a bill aimed at exonerating electronic surveillance equipment, including video cameras, from duties. But engineer Cesar Fondeur, president of the organization, says that the Senate needs to make changes to the bill so that it is adaptable to the rapidly changing industry, as …

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PRD presidential candidate Hipolito Mejia has warned small and medium state suppliers (PYME) that his administration would not pay old debts, and asked them to make an effort to collect their debts before the end of the PLD government. He said that he would apply the thesis of former President Joaquin Balaguer that “old debts …

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Midnight yesterday Wednesday, 21 March was the deadline for the registration of candidates. Diario Libre reports that the political parties used the day to present their presidential and vice-presidential and overseas deputy candidates before the Central Electoral Board (JCE). The first party to arrive at the JCE was Alianza Pais. Presidential candidate Guillermo Moreno was …

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