2013 – Page 278

Diario Libre reports today, Monday 18 March that 70% of solid waste in the municipality of San Jose de las Matas is being collected and classified for recycling. Mayor Jorge Luis Bisono says the recycling program is the result of years of citizen education. He said that workshops, talks and advice had yielded positive results. …

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President Danilo Medina recently announced his determination to proceed with the construction of a highway that would cut through three National Parks and provide a seventh route from San Juan de la Maguana in the southwest to the central city of Santiago de los Caballeros (El Rubio-Sabaneta). La Lupa magazine this week publishes comments in …

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The construction of the Cibao-Sur highway from the north of San Juan de la Maguana province to Santiago would cause irreparable damage to the country’s watersheds which have their source in the Central Mountain region. Jose Manuel Mateo, director of the Biodiversity and Wildlife Department at the Ministry of the Environment, called on the government …

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In a lengthy article in today’s El Caribe, journalist Esteban Delgado reports on the real difficulties the government is experiencing in trying to resolve the chronic problems dogging a central element of Dominican development: the deficient and costly electricity service available to the population. This crisis, which has affected the people and the economy for …

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The Dominican Teachers Association (ADP) that groups public school teachers said yesterday, Sunday 17 March, that it soundly rejects the 20% salary increase announced by the Minister of Education, Josefina Pimentel, and warned that “the fight goes on.” Union president Eduardo Hidalgo told Diario Libre reporters that he believes that the Minister of Education had …

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News reports over the weekend of Saturday 16 and Sunday 17 March suggest that Barrick Pueblo Viejo had declared the United States and not the Dominican Republic as the source of the gold exports made from the Dominican Republic in the Single Customs Declaration (DUA). Company spokespersons described this as “a mistake.” The information was …

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Despite the fact that the Barrick Pueblo Viejo mining company could not correct the error in the Single Customs Declaration (DUA) for the shipment that was held up Las Americas International Airport (AILA) on Wednesday, 13 March because they said that there was an error in the online platform for registering cargo at the Customs …

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The Dominican Republic is the country with the second highest rate of traffic accident fatalities per capita, of the 182 United Nations member states. The DR has a rate of 41.7 fatalities per 100,000 and it is only preceded by the Pacific island nation of Niue, which has 68.3. The estimates are published by the …

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The Dominican economy is 61% service-based. The services include the tourism industry that provides the economy with US$4.5 billion a year. Nevertheless, according to economist Nassim Jose Alemany, the DR has fallen 14 places in the tourism competiveness chart published by the World Economic Forum. The DR fell from number 72 to number 86 on …

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The Banco Popular Dominicano (BPD) has announced its results for 2012 and once again the bank performed very well. Total assets grew by RD$17.9 billion, reaching RD$223.5 billion, an 8.7% growth from 2011. Gross earnings were over RD$5.0 billion and net earnings, after taxes, were set at RD$4.1 billion, with shareholders earning 21.18%. Deposits were …

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