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The Public Electricity Corporation (CDEEE) launched an international tender today, Monday 13 May to select the company that will carry out the engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) of two coal-fired thermo-electrical units that will produce 300 MW each. The CDEEE told Diario Libre that the objective is to expand low cost energy supply, continue to …

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The Medina administration is pushing ahead with the construction of the San Juan- Santiago highway. Leading experts, including former Minister of Environment Frank Moya Pons and economist Eduardo Garcia Michel have come forward to suggest that repairing roads that already exist would serve the same purpose of connecting the regions at a significantly much lower …

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The conflict caused by the differences between members of the Central Electoral Board (JCE) plenary is causing great concern among many sectors of society that are observing that as long as the president of the board, Roberto Rosario, does not put aside his “inflexible” and “arbitrary” attitude, there can be no solution in the medium …

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The directors of the Dominican Social Security system made a mistake when they set a date on the general opening of primary health care. The manager of the National Council for Social Security, Rafael Perez Modesto, while taking care not to mention a specific date, said that they would formally put this primary health service …

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The Ministry of Public Health closed down two private clinics in Samana, after inspectors determined they operated below minimum quality levels. The closed clinics were Centro Medico la Gloria at Calle Duarte in Sanchez, and the Centro Medico de Especialidades Samana II, located on the main street in Las Galeras. The centers were not authorized …

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An estimated 25,000 taxi units are in service in the DR, but the Consejo de Administracion y Regulacion de Taxis (CART) has only registered 3,487 units. A total of 142 companies are registered, but there are about 20 more, according to a new article in the series on public transport in Diario Libre. The reporters …

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In the Saturday 10 May weekend edition of Hoy newspaper, eminent author Fabio R. Herrera-Minino describes how the Dominican Republic is a nation captive by politicians. “From 1996 taxation has been increasing progressively on a par with the personal wealth of government officials, while government services, despite all the money made available, have not improved. …

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The executive vice-president of the Dominican Republic Industrial Association (AIRD), Circe Almanzar, says that for the Dominican industrialist freight haulage is the number four problem affecting competition on the international markets. Because the transport unions control the freight on the docks, the Dominican Republic has the “highest freight costs in Latin America, which takes away …

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The District Attorney for the National District, Yeni Berenice Reynoso said on Sunday, 11 May that she is in favor of the sex education campaign that is being carried out by the Dominican Association of Family Welfare – ProFamilia. Yeni tweeted “The @profamiliaRD campaign educational, timely, necessary!” El Nuevo Diario reports that the Catholic Church …

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Police authorities are reporting a steep decline in the number of reports of stolen cars and trucks. According to El Caribe, the number of reports has gone down from seven or eight a day to three or four. And the recovery rate, despite the appearance of more and more “chop shops”- informal workshops where cars …

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