2013 – Page 112

Panamanian salsa king and Latin Grammy winner Ruben Blades is booked for an appearance at the Palacio de los Deportes in Santo Domingo on 14 December. His ‘Cantos y cuentos urbanos’ show will feature all the hits and songs that Blades has popularized in his more than 30-year singing career. Also known for political activism, …

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President Danilo Medina was in the southeastern province of San Pedro de Macoris yesterday, Tuesday 3 September for the start of construction of the first of 568 low- cost homes at the Altos del Higuamo housing development built by the Mexican cement company Cemex. Cemex said the project was begun after the Medina administration created …

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The Medina administration is expediting the issuing of permits for mining explorations and concessions in the Dominican Republic. A report in Hoy newspaper today, Wednesday 4 September indicates the location of several of the key mining exploration concessions. The report indicates that the Department of Mining had granted 141 concessions for exploration through July 2013. …

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Agriculture Minister Luis Ramon Rodriguez has told Diario Libre that President Danilo Medina has approved the sanitary procedure document that authorizes Haitian authorities to inspect the conditions under which poultry is raised with a view to restarting exports to Haiti. Rodriguez said that in around 30 days as many poultry farms as possible will be …

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According to Public Works Minister Gonzalo Castillo, the construction of around 28 schools is now underway and another 142 will start in two weeks. This has happened since President Danilo Medina met with the owners of the land on Friday, 30 August and broke the impasse that was preventing construction of the schools where school …

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According to El Nacional, in less than one year President Danilo Medina has put a stop to at least four increases for public services or taxes, which reveals a lack of coordination between government leadership and officials. They include the recent electricity rate increase, the back pedaling on the vehicle tax increase, the RD$20 on …

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Seven new ambassadors presented their credentials to President Danilo Medina in a ceremony at the Presidential Palace yesterday, Tuesday 3 September. They were John Petter Opdahl, an Arts graduate from Norway, social sciences graduate Naphtal Manana from South Africa, Otunba Olatokunboh Kamson from Nigeria, and lawyer Marijke A. Van Drunen Littel from the Netherlands. The …

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Yesterday, Tuesday 3 September, the Chamber of Deputies approved, in its second reading, the controversial bill to create a 911 Emergency System. The bill will now be sent to the Senate and it is proposed that the first phase will start in Santo Domingo next December. The Deputies also approved in the first reading changes …

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Mayors belonging to the PRD have announced the creation of the “Movement for a United PRD” with the aim of mediating in the party’s internal conflicts and to unify it before the elections in 2016. The vice president of the PRD National Municipal Affairs Secretariat, Victor D’Aza, made the announcement in a meeting of mayors …

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The Roman Catholic Church hierarchy in the Dominican Republic has been mute on several recent cases of priests accused of pedophilia. Usually very outspoken, the head of the Church Cardinal Nicolas Lopez Rodriguez has not commented on the issue. Yesterday, Tuesday 3 September Monsignor Agripino Nunez Collado confirmed that the apostolic nuncio Jozef Wesolowski of …

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