2013 – Page 334

If a bill currently in the Chamber of Deputies receives a favorable report from the Permanent Interior and Police Commission, they will establish a RD$20 peso tax to be used to set up the 911 emergency calls system. The tax will be collected on all commercial, residential and cellphone accounts. Article 13 of the proposed …

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The Institutionalism and Justice Foundation (Finjus) has suggested that the current status of the National Drug Control Agency (DNCD) is not only unconstitutional but should also be redesigned and placed under the Attorney General of the Republic. Finjus executive vice-president Servio Tulio Castanos is suggesting this change on the grounds that the DNCD had little …

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The disciplinary trial against former President Hipolito Mejia, the PRD interim president Andres Bautista, general secretary Orlando Jorge Mera and organizational secretary Geanilda Vasquez, is ready to start at 9am today, Monday 14 January at the party’s National House, located on the Enrique Jimenez Moya Avenue in Santo Domingo. The national prosecutor for the PRD, …

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The Eighth Penal Court of the National District has ordered Geronimo Sierra Trinidad to spend three months in preventive custody after being accused of stealing electricity. El Nuevo Diario says that the defendant was arraigned on charges after electricity distribution company EdeSur filed several complaints. According to the request by the Special Prosecutor for Electricity, …

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The head of the Fenatrado transport union, Blas Peralta, warned that the restrictions proposed by the Santo Domingo city council for George Washington Avenue (the Malecon) in Santo Domingo would result in chaotic traffic jams on other streets designated for alternative routes for the heavy traffic coming off the docks in the port of Santo …

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The practice of switching around of the dates of important feasts such as Three Kings Day and Juan Pablo Duarte Day takes away from the significance of the commemorative dates and promotes a culture of laziness, according to Salesian priest Jesus Maria Tejada. He is asking the Chamber of Deputies to stop moving them according …

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On Friday night, 11 January the Leones del Escogido pretty much pushed the Estrellas to the very brink of disaster as they once again defeated them, 7-2, in a game played in the Estadio Quisqueya in Santo Domingo. The victory took the Leones into a first place tie with the Aguilas Cibaenas. Although the Estrellas …

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Director of Immigration Jose Ricardo Taveras is denying the reports that circulated yesterday, Thursday 10 January that the government had agreed to admit 1,080 Haitians, most without the required legal documentation. The consulate that operated in Dajabon was moved to Ouanaminthe (Juana Mendez) to assist the Haitians in getting their legal documentation. “No Haitian citizen …

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The DR is seeking a free trade agreement with Haiti, but in the meantime, Osmar Benitez, advisor to the Executive Branch and executive vice president of the Dominican Agribusiness Board (JAD) said that the Dominican Republic’s trade relations with Haiti were defined by the European Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA). Within the framework of that agreement, …

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The Presidency has announced that the government will rebuild and extend the old market area in San Francisco de Macoris after it was destroyed in a fire. Some 17 vendors lost their stands and produce at the market. The government announced that RD$37 million in low-interest loans would be provided to the stallholders so they …

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