2013 – Page 276

The Federation of the Association of Teachers at the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo (Faprouasd) has issued a writ at the Appeal Court in the National District, against the rector of the university, Mateo Aquino Febrillet, accusing him of embezzling more than RD$61 million of university funds. The writ also names Administrative Vice Rector Emma …

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First Lady Candida Montilla de Medina greeted the Pope during the papal investiture in the Vatican today, Tuesday 19 March. The First Lady is leading the Dominican delegation that is attending the ceremony. Others on the delegation are administrative minister of the Presidency Jose Ramon Peralta, Dominican ambassador to the Holy See Victor Grimaldi and …

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The government is going to spend RD$700 million on remodeling and equipment for 36 public hospitals that have been declared as the highest priorities. Sixteen of them have been taken over by the authorities in the areas of infrastructure, human resources and equipment. Reporter Diego Pesquera of Hoy newspaper says that the Minister of Public …

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The Department of Customs (DGA) reported yesterday, Monday 18 March that the Barrick Pueblo Viejo mining company has to pay the Dominican state the sum of RD$952 million in order to ship a load of dore that the customs agency has been holding since Wednesday, 13 March. The DGA director general, Fernando Fernandez, has also …

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In Diario Libre today, Tuesday 19 March, editor Ines Aizpun focuses on a key issue for Dominicans n the lack of accountability in government. The contracts traditionally signed by Dominican government officials that go on to become an object of regret are at the center of this malaise, she writes. These contracts are often heavily …

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Leading civic group Participacion Ciudadana (PC) is demanding detailed and transparent follow up on shipments of gold, silver, dore and other exported metals. In a statement released today, Tuesday 19 March, PC says that the exported goods must be verified to eradicate accounting procedures that promote a lack of transparency and complicity between the company …

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The National Association of Young Entrepreneurs (ANJE) is calling on the authorities to publish details of the national budget performance by each government institution and each line item contained in the General Budget of Income and Spending approved for this year. This would comply with the principles of transparency and publicity established in Article 11 …

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If you noticed a reduction in traffic today, Tuesday 19 March, it might be because public schools are affected by a teachers’ strike. While the Ministry of Education does not appear to give any signals of “having its arm twisted,” the Dominican Teachers Association (ADP) insists on trying to do so by radicalizing its methods, …

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Central Electoral Board (JCE) judge Rosario Graciano de los Santos says that until the government girds it loins with the sufficient courage that former President Leonel Fernandez did not possess, and carries out a census and regulates all of the foreigners who are in the Dominican Republic illegally, as required according to Law 285-04 on …

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The Institutionalism and Justice Foundation (Finjus) said yesterday, Monday 18 March that the Central Electoral Board (JCE) decision to place the solution to the “stalemate” affecting thousands of citizens of Haitian descent who are calling for their identification documents in the hands of the Department of Immigration is unconstitutional. The foundation said that the 19,015 …

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