2013 – Page 23

Last night, Wednesday 4 December, the Tigres del Licey won their game against the Toros del Este with a dramatic tenth inning triple by Emilio Bonifacio that drove in two runs. The game was played in the Francisco Micheli Stadium in La Romana. In Santiago’s Estadio Cibao, the Aguilas Cibaenas beat up on the hapless …

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President Danilo Medina inaugurated the start of a housing project in La Barquita, Santo Domingo yesterday, Tuesday 3 December. The residential area, called La Nueva Barquita, will transform three poor areas on the banks of the Ozama River, home to 1,620 families who have been suffering from constant flooding. Jose Miguel Gonzalez Cuadra, executive director …

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The National Treasury is ready to start paying Christmas bonuses of one month’s extra salary tomorrow, Thursday 5 December, to around 600,000 public servants for a total of around RD$9.5 billion. The first to receive the money will be civil and military pensioners. National Treasurer, Alberto Perdomo Pina said that they would work hard to …

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According to a regional publication by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, FAO, chronic undernutrition among children decreased by 50% in the Dominican Republic from 1990 to 2013s. The publication, “Panorama of Food and Nutritional Security in Latin America and the Caribbean 2013” was launched yesterday, Tuesday 3 December in the Chilean capital, Santiago. …

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The Executive Director of the Dominican Institute for Research and Evaluation of the Quality of Education (IDEICE), Julio Leonardo Valeiron, says that the low level of knowledge of math and reading among teachers in public elementary schools is a cause for concern. Valeiron was speaking at the opening of the International Congress on Challenges in …

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This weekend, 7-8 December, the ruling PLD party will start the official process for electing new members for its Central Committee. At a press conference yesterday, Tuesday 3 December, party spokesman Cesar Pina Toribio said that this election was scheduled for 12 January 2014 when 166 new members will be elected, of which 150 are …

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Residents of Santo Domingo East protested outside the Presidential Palace yesterday, Tuesday 3 December demanding that the government assign resources to lengthen the second Metro line up to the community of San Luis. This time the demonstrators asked President Medina to use the US$1.4 billion that the government is expected to earn from the sale …

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Speaking at a press conference with Haitian Foreign Relations Minister Pierre Richard Casimir yesterday, Tuesday 3 December, Haitian Interior Minister David Bazil said that the media has been publishing erroneous reports of deportations and lynchings of Haitians by Dominicans after the murder of an elderly Dominican couple in which the suspects are Haitian. The Haitian …

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The delegation from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) met yesterday morning, Tuesday 3 December with representatives from all parties in the Chamber of Deputies and its president Abel Martinez. The meeting took place at the Presidential Palace and according to Martinez they spoke about the respect due to the laws and the Dominican …

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The Ministry of the Environment and Natural Resources has sent two fishermen and the owner of a fish shop in Las Terrenas to justice for illegally catching an endangered turtle and selling its meat. A ministry press release states that members of the Samana Environmental Department caught the two fishermen, Francisco Paulino Bonilla and Jose …

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