2012 – Page 296

On Monday February 20 President Leonel Fernandez issued Decree 55-12 appointing Perfecto Acosta Suriel as the coordinator of the Commission for Support to the Reform and Modernization of the Justice System. Acosta Suriel will replace jurist Lino Vasquez Samuel who was selected as a magistrate on the Constitutional Tribunal. The decree also appointed Jose Alfredo …

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The United States Embassy in the Dominican Republic said yesterday Monday February 20 that “no military personnel would be involved in the construction or operation of the base or based on Saona Island,” in response to questions from Diario Libre on the role that they would play once their support for the Dominican Navy and …

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Executives from online newspaper Siglo21.com have presented documents and are asking the authorities to investigate their case, on the grounds that the information indicates that the source of the alleged exchange between the First Lady Margarita Cedeno and ambassador Rosa Hernandez de Grullon apparently has an IP address that belongs to two leading PLD members. …

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The Ministry of Education has a RD$120 million budget for repairing and remodeling 39 of the 114 school buildings that suffered damage including cracks in the earthquakes that shook parts of the country in January. According to El Nuevo Diario, Minister of Education Josefina Pimentel said that she has requested the National Office of Infrastructure …

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The president of the Dominican Seismology and Seismic Engineering Society (Sodosismica), Leonardo Reyes Madera, insisted yesterday Monday February 20 on the need for the country to conduct structural surveys of schools and hospitals in order to assess whether they have problems that could cause them to collapse during an earthquake. According to the expert, the …

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The Tax Office (DGII) has announced the extension for all fiscal year 2012 of the measures pertaining to the exonerations from payment of the anticipated tax payment on Income Tax, from the payment of the Tax on Assets and from the Retention of Income Tax on payments made by the State. The measure is contained …

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PRD president Miguel Vargas Maldonado has told the Central Electoral Board (JCE) that he supports the Board’s proposal to send the election results to the media at the same time that they were being sent to the political parties. This stance contradicts the opinion expressed by his party’s presidential candidate Hipolito Mejia’s National Campaign Command …

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The voting rolls will cost the political parties that want them RD$500,000 each, according to the Central Electoral Board (JCE). The co-head of the JCE Computer Center and Financial Director say that the cost of printing a set of the voter registration lists will come to RD$557,630.08. The price quote was made at the request …

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Former Supreme Court (SCJ) judge Julio Anibal Suarez has issued a challenge before the Constitutional Tribunal against the National Council of Magistrates resolution that removed from the high court. Suarez claims that the resolution that removed him contains four major infractions – the lack of a motivation, violation of the right to be heard, stability …

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Members of the Metrallas and the Tigres, gangs from the Dominican Republic, are breaking in to the houses of rival Dominican gang members in Madrid, in order to steal their drugs and sell them in Latin American neighborhoods. According to Spanish newspaper ABC, the Police have identified several gang members as former deportees from the …

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