2012 – Page 317

Vaccination drives and prevention efforts have paid off. Yesterday, Virgen Gomez of the national health audit commission announced that the DR is free of measles and rubella (German measles). As reported in Diario Libre, Gomez said that vaccination coverage of preventable diseases is now at 95% of the population. The last case of rubella was …

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The Dominican League Against Cancer defended the work being carried out by the Dr. Heriberto Pieter Oncological Institute. The Institute treats thousands of patients from all over the country, mainly people from the lowest income brackets. The League fears that the institute’s management style might be changed in a possible shared management situation in the …

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Surveys of schools and other public buildings by the National Office of Evaluation of Seismological Vulnerability, have found that a total of 32 schools, 24 in Nagua, and 8 in Sanchez, in the province of Samana, suffered damage after the 5.1 earthquake on Monday. Although the school officials are ringing the school bells, only a …

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The reforms that the business sector is suggesting for the Labor Code include legalizing the reduction of the working week from five to four days and extending the working day from 8 to 10 hours, but without overtime pay. The alternate working week would go from Tuesday to Friday. According to the business sector, this …

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The five largest private employers that contribute to the Social Security System had, all together, 37,163 employees in 2011, which represents an increase of 8,681 employees compared to 2010, when there were 28,481 workers. According to figures from the Social Security Treasury report for 2011, the Ramos Group became the largest private employer, going from …

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A report on the ranking of schools in the Dominican Republic showed that of 5,515 public and private schools in the country, 4,564 scored “Deficient” (D) with a ranking below 55 points on all tests. In the School Ranking Classification of Educational Centers (CLACE 2011) by the Think and Grow Foundation, headed by former Minister …

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Deputy Public Works Minister Mario Holguin and president of the Dignity Network Foundation (Fundacion Red de la Dignidad) wants to raise awareness among citizens and government of the importance of improving road safety in the Dominican Republic. Yesterday he launched two books with his findings on regional highway safety. One of the books focuses on …

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A few hours after a group of deputies from the PRD asked party president Miguel Vargas Maldonado to take a leave of absence, the party’s presidential candidate, Hipolito Mejia and 42 legislators came out in defense of MVM and called on the party leadership to avoid being distracted by the opposition’s strategies. Mejia acknowledged that …

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Some 55% of PRSC voters consulted in the Penn, Schoen Berland poll, carried out for the SIN Group, think that the party should take part in the presidential elections as an ally of another party, while 49% say they would vote for Danilo Medina if there were an alliance with the PLD. Respondents who said …

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“Diatriba de amor contra un hombre sentado” (Diatribe of Love Against a Seated Man), Nobel Prize for Literature Laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s only play, will be staged at the National Theater’s Sala Ravelo over the weekend of Friday, 24, Saturday 25 and Sunday 26 February. The play, a 90-minute, one-woman comedy is directed by Enrique …

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