2013 – Page 320

The Director of the National Energy Commission, Enrique Ramirez, and the Minister of Energy in Haiti, Rene Jean-Jumeau have signed an agreement committing the Dominican and Haitian governments to start studies to connect the energy system between the two countries. Ramirez said that although the Dominican Republic had not been able to overcome the profound …

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Vice President Margarita Cedeno de Fernandez used the Twitter social network to explain why she was not at San Isidro Air Force base to welcome President Danilo Medina on his return from Chile on Monday night, 28 January, after attending the Summit for the European Union and the Community of American States and the Caribbean …

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The overseas Deputies say they are being put under pressure by Dominicans who live abroad due to the closure of the Central Electoral Board (JCE) offices, which used to issue birth, death and marriage certificates and national identity cards (cedulas). They held a meeting yesterday, Tuesday 29 January with JCE president Roberto Rosario and the …

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Altagracia Paulino, the Director of the National Consumer Rights Protection Institute (Pro Consumidor) has issued an alert about the presence of counterfeit medicines in the country and announced plans for a campaign to stop people buying them. According to Paulino, the he World Health Organization has said that Dominican Republic is the ninth highest country …

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The Chamber of Deputies has increased employees’ salaries by between 10 and 40% effective from this month. Department directors will now receive RD$130,000 gross salary per month and managers RD$90,000. Chamber president Abel Martinez said that they had adjusted the salaries of employees who had joined the institution as secretaries and assistants, but were still …

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Over the last year the Ministry of Public Health facilities treated Haitian patients 1,085,253 times at a cost of RD$1,048,006,574, over one billion pesos. These figures include emergencies, admissions, laboratory tests, births (both natural and caesarean), birth control, major surgery, x-rays and blood transfusions, but do not include the costs of medicines, patient transport, vaccinations …

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The 18-21 January 2013 Gallup-Hoy poll, with 1,200 people polled, shows PRD president Miguel Vargas (65%) former President Hipolito Mejia Dominguez (63%) and former President Leonel Fernandez (52%) with the highest unfavorable ratings. The incumbent team, President Danilo Medina (82%) and former First Lady and current Vice President Margarita Cedeno (75%) have the best perception. …

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Following a meeting with the Vice President Margarita Cedeno de Fernandez about the economic crisis affecting the Central Electoral Board (JCE), its president Roberto Rosario said that the crisis affecting the PRD was not endangering democracy here, because it was an internal party problem. He said that Dominicans were used to political parties having internal …

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As is usual, Dominican creativity is having fun with the skirmish at the PRD political party headquarters over the weekend, in the ongoing confrontations between former PRD presidential candidate Hipolito Mejia (President 2000-2004) and party president Miguel Vargas Maldonado. The latest focus, nevertheless, is on the plastic chairs after TV cameras filmed people storming the …

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Supreme Court Judge, Francisco Ortega Polanco, has set the date of February 15 to hear the complaint by former President Hipolito Mejia against Senator Wilton Guerrero and the editor of El Caribe newspaper Osvaldo Santana for alleged defamation and slander. The judge had asked Mejia and Guerrero to come to a meeting and discuss if …

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