2013 – Page 315

Today, Tuesday 5 February the government will present the results of a new study on the content of salami, in order to establish whether the product that is sold in the country contains contaminating elements. Speaking at the Presidential Palace yesterday, Monday 4 February, Minister of Public Health Freddy Hidalgo said that the information, which …

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The Dominican Social Security System (SDSS) operates on a deficit that the Superintendent of Health and Labor Risks (Sisalril), Fernando Caamano, calculates at about RD$100 million a month, while the system treasurer, Henry Sadhala, prefers to describe it as a lack of cash flow, which he says is RD$32 million. Both agree that they have …

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The end of the “grace period” that several supermarket chains gave consumers by absorbing the new taxes of the tax reform during the month of January, suggests that people have only seen the tip of the iceberg of the effects of the new taxes. As much as RD$2,000 and RD$3,000 now has to be added …

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Ecologist Luis Carvajal says that the Ministry of Environment has changed the terms of reference of the UNDP review to favor Xstrata. As reported in El Dia, Luis Carvajal says that under the previous terms the exploitation permit could not be granted. Carvajal said that the evaluation to be carried out by UNDP specialists breaks …

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Electricity distribution company EdeSur has announced that because of a lack of generation attributed to the shutdown of several generators, a deficit in the supply created the need for them to shut down 48 circuits, nine of which were in the so-called “24-hour” category. They explained that “due to the situation in EdeSur they were …

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“Divine Providence,” is the explanation that the Santo Domingo West Fire Department gives for the low incidence of deaths or injuries in fires in cars and buses, both private and public, caused by poorly working Liquid Petroleum Gas (LPG) systems. Fire Department Lieutenant Colonels Jean Luis Yedy and Simeon Cabrera outlined a series of variables …

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The Embassy of Chile reports that Dominicans are now ranked as the third nationality applying for legal migration permits. Diario Libre reports that job opportunities now available in the healthy Chilean economy are attracting many Dominicans. As has happened with other countries, the first to migrate are spreading the news of the good opportunities and …

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The National HIV and AIDS Council says that more than 7,000 people in the Puerto Plata area are infected with HIV and as many as 2,000 may not know it. This situation, according to El Nuevo Diario and other newspapers, has spurred the Council to call for an urgent meeting to plan the measures needed …

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Details on the case of ICSSI, S.A., a company that was fast-tracked despite only having RD$50,000 in capital and was awarded a multi million-dollar contract to install equipment to monitor containers passing through Dominican ports during the government of President Hipolito Mejia are carried in acento.com.do and La Lupa magazine. Neither Miguel Cocco nor his …

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Hotoniel Bonilla, a deputy attorney general and head of the anti-corruption unit, has resigned. In his resignation letter to President Danilo Medina, the long-serving head of the National Directorate for the Pursuit of Administrative Corruption said that he would step down on 27 February, as reported in Listin Diario. The head of the DPCA (previously …

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