2013 – Page 228

The government literacy program, “Quisqueya Learns With You” now has 221,507 Dominicans taking part, with a government target of 300,140 by the end of July. The provinces with the most people learning, according to the targets, are Santo Domingo with 32,487, Santiago 19,045, San Juan 16,952, Azua 14,222, San Cristobal 14,898, Puerto Plata 11,730, and …

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Yesterday, Wednesday, May 8, the Dominican Medical Association (CMD) protested outside the Presidential Palace in Santo Domingo demanding a 100% increase in public hospital doctors’ salaries. Association president Amarilis Herrera did not announce a strike but she stated that the doctors had planned a series of protests aimed at achieving their demands. The last time …

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Based on the findings of a 2011 study by the government’s Technical Ground Transport Office, Diario Libre reporters tell their readers that they are overpaying by more than RD$356 million in transport a year. Maria Paz Conde of the OTTT says that 1,250,000 people use public transport every day. The report, “Illegality, bribery and overvaluation …

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With the summer rains just starting, epidemiologist Jesus Feris Iglesias warns that extra precautions should be taken to avoid mosquito bites. The mosquitoes could be bearers of dengue, a potentially fatal tropical disease. Local medical authorities say that this year there have been 26 deaths and 4,500 cases, when the rains have just started. Last …

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Attorney General Francisco Dominguez Brito has announced that soliciting the services of a prostitute in the Dominican Republic is now against the law. The authorities have been tolerant towards prostitution in the past. Dominguez Brito announced that men caught soliciting the services of a prostitute would be arrested and files on them would be recorded …

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The story appeared in the Boston Globe in February, but now it is making headlines in the Dominican Republic. Today, Thursday 9 May, Listin Diario covers the Boston Globe investigation of the declarations of more than 50 athletes to the United States Tax Department (IRS). The investigation revealed that the charitable organization set up by …

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Seven communities were cut off and three families left homeless after the Canabo River in the municipal district of Jayaco-La Seiba flooded earlier this week. The communities cut off are El Llano, Penalo, Jengibre, Cercadillo, Pitufo and Los Cachimbos. Fifty people have been evacuated from their homes to a shelter prepared by the district director …

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The Police have arrested a man who is said to have admitted responsibility for the murders of a lawyer from Bani, Odalis Lara and Narciso Radhames Valdez Santos (Palillo) whose burned bodies were found in a vehicle at kilometer 22 on the Azua-Barahona road. The arrested man is Eulogio Feliz Castillo (El Gordo), 35, who, …

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The United States Immigration Service has deported 101 Dominican criminals who have served their time in US jails for drug dealing, murder, robbery, document forgery, sex offences, kidnapping, assaults, fraud and other crimes. This brings the total number of deportees this year to 1,248. The deportees were taken from Las Americas International Airport to the …

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According to the National Meteorological Office (ONAMET), a slow moving weather front will mean that the rains will continue, as well as thunderstorms and wind. They will be heavier in the afternoons and in the southeast, southwest, north, northeast, border area and the central mountain range. The forecasters say that the temperatures will remain high …

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