2013 – Page 141

President Danilo Medina was yesterday at the Loyola Polytechnic Institute, the nation’s most important vocational training school. He toured the school together with Rector Jose Nunez and promised funds to modernize and add 30 classrooms to the highly reputed institution. Medina spoke to more than 1,500 students and said that his government is on a …

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Tourism Minister Francisco Javier Garcia Fernandez has opened the possibility of the country inviting Pope Francis to visit next year for the 520th anniversary of the first mass in the New World that was celebrated in La Isabela, Puerto Plata by Friar Bernardo Boil on 6 January 1494. He said that the visit of Pope …

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Minister of Environment Bautista Rojas Gomez announced that a first National Forestry Inventory is being prepared with cooperation from the German Cooperation Agency (GIZ). He said the information will be useful to develop policies to help the country adapt to climate change and mitigate damages. Rojas Gomez spoke during the opening of the 16th Biennial …

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Construction crews are at work in the Colonial City for major urban improvements starting with Isabel la Catolica and Arzobispo Merino streets from Presidente Billini to Arzobispo Portes streets. The works will also cover stretches of Luperon, Las Mercedes, Emiliano Tejera and Restauracion streets in this first stage. The works are part of the Interamerican …

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The Ministry of Public Health announced services at public hospitals will be free. The hospitals had been charging a “recovery fee.” The fees were from RD$40 for lab services to RD$8,000 for minor surgeries. The funds were used to complement wages of medical staff. Minister of Public Health said the government would make available RD$600 …

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Minister of Environment Bautista Rojas Gomez is encouraging Dominicans to deal with the summer hot temperatures by taking time off to visit the national parks, many of which are located in more refreshing mountain or beach areas. He also says that it is time to take that stroll in the well-shaded National Botanical Gardens or …

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She was born in Santo Domingo but 19-year old Yaritza Reyes represented the land of her grand parents, Elias Pina, in the Miss Dominican Republic contest. She is a graduate in nursing, and is a student of social communications at the state university UASD. She has worked as a professional model and as an English …

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Rafael Gonzalez Alvarez was sentenced yesterday, 5 August 2013 to 18 years in jail for the homicide of 55-year old businessman Guillermo Moncada Aybar, over a residential parking space in an apartment building complex. He was ordered to serve his term in La Victoria jail. Moncada’s widow, Yuli de Moncada, said the family would appeal …

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The Citizens Against Corruption movement (C3) has urged the Specialized Prosecution Service in the Fight against Administrative Corruption to make progress on several writs that have been raised against government employees from the government of the former President Leonel Fernandez. Juan Tomas Taveras said that there are six or seven outstanding writs and not one …

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The Police announced the arrest of three generals accused of inappropriate actions in a police raid in Sosua in October 2012, where a German citizen died, several fire arms were confiscated and according to a complaint by the inhabitants of the house, the police officers took RD$60 million and jewelry. The generals under arrest are …

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