2012 – Page 56

The Detroit Tigers will have six Dominicans on their World Series roster: Johnny Peralta, Ramon Santiago, Jose Valverde, Alberto Alburquerque, Joaquin Benoit and Octavio Dotel. The San Francisco Giants will have three Dominicans on their roster: Santiago Casilla, Guillermo Mota and Joaquin Arias. If Melky Cabrera had not been punished for the use of illegal …

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Only one game was played last night, Tuesday 23 October. The Toros del Este defeated the Leones del Escogido in a down-to-the-wire game, 3-2, with Charlie Blackmon delivering a two-run double and Diorys Hernandez a solitary homerun for the Toros. The games in Santo Domingo and San Pedro de Macoris were rained out and will …

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President Danilo Medina is preparing for his second trip abroad since taking office on 16 August 2012. He will travel to Spain on 13 November to attend the 22nd Ibero-American Summit of heads of government from Latin America, Spain and Portugal. The event, which will take place on 16-17 November in the southern city of …

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The Minister of Public Works, Gonzalo Castillo has promised that the Ministry, in coordination with the mayors of the National District and Greater Santo Domingo will repair the holes in the main streets in the city, in a program to be called “Christmas without holes”. The work will involve patching and asphalting so that people …

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Rene Jaquez, director of Student Welfare at the Ministry of Education says that the new school lunch, which the Ministry will be providing to 97 public schools where the extended day program is implemented, will have a different meal each day. The program will benefit 37,000 students and will cost RD$52 per serving. The school …

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Rafael Calderon, speaking on behalf of the PLD senators, says that the government has decided to remove the proposed 16% tax on fuel from the planned fiscal reform. He said that removing this tax, along with around 60 products would protect poorer families and stated that the reduction in spending proposed by the Economic and …

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The economist Miguel Ceara Hatton, speaking on behalf of the Citizens For Democracy movement is urging President Danilo Medina to base the 2013 budget on that of 2011 and not 2012. He says the 2012 budget was irregular in terms of public expenditure because it was an electoral year where politics prevailed. He said that …

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Fulgencio Severino, president of the National Patriotic Movement For All (MPT) and specialist in social security has said that the decree issued by President Danilo Medina abolishing State support in complementary pension plans violates the law and shows a lack of understanding of how these pension plans work. He said that it was not the …

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Arismendi Diaz Santana, an expert on pension plans in the DR, has written to Hoy to outline the major inequalities in the pension plans granted during the Fernandez administration. He makes the point that the system allows high-ranking government officials to retire with million-pesos worth in pensions after only four years in the job. High-ranking …

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After eight consecutive years of Leonel Fernandez administration, the Dominican Republic is positioned in the bottom half of the World Bank’s Doing Business Report. The low ranking reflects the fact that the regulatory environment is not the most conducive to starting and operating a company. The index averages the country’s percentile rankings on 10 topics, …

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