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President Danilo Medina arrived in Caracas, Venezuela at 8:30am, this Friday 19 April to attend Venezuelan President-elect Nicolas Maduro’s swearing in ceremony. He was welcomed by Minister of Industry Ricardo Menendez, the Dominican ambassador in Venezuela, Adonaida Medina and consul general Mary Kasse. He traveled to Caracas with Presidency Minister Gustavo Montalvo, Administrative Minister Jose …

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The Presidency announced yesterday, Thursday 18 April that the National Literacy Plan has a chapter to teach students with special needs. The plan will cover students with intellectual, hearing, visual or other physical disadvantages, who have not yet learned to read and write. President Danilo Medina, Vice President Margarita Cedeno, Education Minister Josefina Pimentel and …

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The Medina administration reported that yesterday, Thursday 18 April the Treasury received the funds corresponding to the US$1 billion placement on foreign capital markets, the largest in Dominican history. The placement and use of the funds was assigned in the 2013 National Budget. Administrative Minister of the Presidency Jose Ramon Peralta says that the administration …

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At a time when the labor, government and business sectors are meeting to agree on the percentage of the minimum wage increase, Ligia Bonetti, president of the Dominican Republic Association of Industries is calling for a social pact for jobs to be signed. She says that attention needs to be focused on more than the …

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As of 31 March, the National Pension Fund had surpassed RD$210 billion, says Superintendent of Pensions Joaquin Geronimo. He wants the funds to be invested in the construction sector. As reported in Hoy, Geronimo said that Law 189-11 on Development of the Mortgage and Trust Markets enables the funds to be used to build housing …

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Public Administration Minister Ramon Ventura Camejo is urging Congress to move forward on the General Public Wages Bill. The bill had advanced in Congress at the end of the Fernandez government, only to stagnate again after the start of the Medina administration. Ventura says that if the bill is not passed, the nation will be …

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An editorial in Hoy today, Friday 19 April makes a call for an end to taxation on telecommunications. The Chamber of Deputies has announced a bill that would impose an additional RD$20 on every fixed phone line bill, both fixed lines and mobiles. The tax would finance the National Emergency System (911 hotline). The Hoy …

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The Dominican Republic is a country that can barely guarantee breakfast snacks at public schools, while on the other end of the scale it is a world leader in the number of luxury SUVs per square kilometer, economist Isidoro Santana said during the launch of the new Dominican Academy of Sciences economic magazine under the …

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Residents of the Poligono Central area of Santo Domingo will have noticed that garbage collections are now taking place in the evening. A new schedule at the Duquesa landfill site is making it possible for garbage trucks to circulate late at night. This weekend trucks are working until midnight but this will be extended to …

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Chevron Caribbean, Esso DR, Dipsa-Next, Petromovil, Sunix Petroleum, Isla Dominicana and Sol Company have published an advertisement in the media today, Friday 19 April telling the general public about the exorbitant demands the fuel truckers union is making for fuel tanker truck drivers. They are demanding that companies that transport their fuel in more than …

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