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Returning to the Presidential Palace for the first time since he left the Presidency in 2004, former President Hipolito Mejia met with President Danilo Medina today, Monday 8 April. He was accompanied by his son Ramon Hipolito and daughter Carolina, former Vice President Milagros Ortiz Bosch, and party secretary Orlando Jorge Mera, who is the …

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The leadership of the Dominican Teachers Association (ADP), made up of public school teachers is reactivating, starting today, Monday 8 April, its plan of action for more benefits, with parent and community assemblies. The ADP will hold four regional assemblies with the aim of declaring 13 April “the National Day of Mobilizations and Reaffirmation of …

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The Minister of Public Health has told doctors working at state hospitals that there will not be any salary increases during this year, as reported in Diario Libre. Ministers Freddy Hidalgo said that the budget assigned to the ministry for this year does not include any pay raises for the doctors, nurses or lab technicians. …

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The National Hydraulic Resources Institute (Indrhi) has begun the construction of a dam at La Pina in the northwestern province of Dajabon, near the border with Haiti. It will provide irrigation water via the Juan Calvo Canal to 24,000 tareas of land that are farmed by 455 beneficiaries of agrarian reform governmental programs. The reservoir …

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Public debt in the Dominican Republic has more than quadrupled in the past 12 years, according to the Regional Center for Sustainable Economic Strategies (Crees). At US$2.8 billion in 2000, by year’s end 2012 the DR’s public debt stood at US$12.9 billion. Crees spokesman Ernesto Selman said that in 2012, the government paid 17.6% in …

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Writing in acento.com.do and Hoy on Sunday 7 April, journalist Juan Bolivar Diaz describes how government programs begun under the markedly clientelist Leonel Fernandez government have reached more than two million households in the Dominican Republic. Around seven million people receive RD$40 billion in social welfare in seven highly promoted welfare programs. Diaz describes six …

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They take care of the most valuable part of the society: the family. They are responsible for preparing food, doing the cleaning and the laundry for the family, and even look after their pets and plants. Many become a sort of second mother to the children and others provide support for elderly members at the …

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The president of the Justice and Transparency Foundation, Trajano Potentini announced yesterday, Sunday 7 April that he has filed an appeal of unconstitutionality regarding the “taxes” that the Central Electoral Board (JCE) charges for issuing documents and civil status certificates. Trajano said that it is against the Constitution for the JCE to issue a resolution …

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Today, Monday 8 April the judges of the Second Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice (SCJ), Miriam German Brito, Hirohito Reyes, and Esther Agelan Casasnovas will hear, the appeals presented by the Prosecutors of the Court of Appeals for the reduction of the sentences to the people convicted for their involvement in Jose David …

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The National Police Chief, Major General Jose Armando Polanco Brito announced yesterday, Sunday 7 April that he was against a general disarming of the civilian population, saying that the criminals who break the law make it very difficult to disarm them all. He said that honest people, who work and contribute to the country’s development, …

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