2012 – Page 62

Diario Libre executive editor Adriano Miguel Tejada comments on the fiscal reform in the newspaper’s editorial today, Wednesday 17 October. “Basically two types of fiscal reforms can be made. One that contributes to re-launching the economy by way of more revenues for a more rational state, and at the same time promotes private investment and …

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President Danilo Medina has issued an administrative memo to all government agencies instructing them to fill vacancies with personnel from within their ranks. The order makes exceptions for the Ministry of Public Health and the Ministry of Education when doctors and teachers are pensioned off. The measure cites the President’s decision to use every means …

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A total of 174 former undocumented cane cutters have been included in the payrolls of the Ministry of Hacienda, in the Department of Retirees and Pensioners. This was decided as part of an agreement that favored these workers who spent their lives cutting sugarcane. These men are some of 424 former cane workers who received …

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The Ministry of Public Works has opened the new bridge at Jatubey on the Duarte Highway between Bonao and La Vega. The old bridge had to be torn down due to damage from the river and replaced with a new one. Minister Gonzalo Castillo received the new structure from Engineer Manuel Estrella, whose company, Ingeneria …

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The president and vice-president of the Action for Education group (Educa), Elena Viyella de Paliza and Franklin Baez Brugal, have expressed concerns about the way that the Ministry of Education plans to use the more than RD$90 billion pesos that the 4% of GDP will provide the ministry. Interviewed during the weekly luncheon event at …

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The bus service once provided in the city of Santiago is no longer a presence and the Metropolitan Office of Bus Service (OMSA) parking lot is, in reality, a big junkyard full of discarded and scavenged hulks. From a labor force that once numbered 1,200, the payroll is now 300 and there are fears that …

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The Chamber of Deputies approved the Penal Code yesterday, Tuesday 16 October in one reading and with some modifications. The modifications will increase the maximum sentence to 40 years, penalize the invasion and occupation of lands, establishes 40 years prison sentences for wife/women killers, punishes kidnapping with sentences of between 20 and 30 years, and …

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A group of experts met at the Round Table on Transparency and Governability yesterday, Tuesday 16 October and expressed their consternation at the “roughshod and hurried” way in which the deputies approved the changes to Law 136-03 n the Minors’ Code. They did not like what they saw. The group of lawyers brought together by …

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Several leading members of the PRD have decided to join forces in search of preserving party unity and developing a new political movement to present alternatives to the leaderships of Miguel Vargas and Hipolito Mejia. Former vice-presidential candidate Luis Abinader, party general secretary Orlando Jorge Mera, Alfredo Pacheco, Eduardo Sanz Lovaton, Jose Leonel Cabrera, Tony …

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The Vida Azul Foundation, which represents the Ocean Conservancy in the Dominican Republic, reports that their beach clean-up day in September produced almost 200,000 pounds of refuse from 147 kilometers of beaches, and riverbanks throughout the country. The intiative, according to El Nuevo Diario was supported by members of the Ministry of the Environment, the …

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