2013 – Page 338

The National Police has received six trucks that will be used to increase patrols across the country, specifically in various towns in the Cibao and Santo Domingo province. This is part of the program to guarantee that there is a least one police vehicle in each municipality across the country. Police spokesman General Maximo Baez …

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A photo exhibition that accompanies leading paint company Pinturas Tropical’s 2013 diary and calendar continues at the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Santo Domingo until next Tuesday, 15 January. The theme of the new calendar and diary is the classic poem by the late Dominican national poet Pedro Mir, “Hay un pais en el mundo” …

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In the first three months of budgetary restrictions imposed by President Danilo Medina, the government is reporting a surplus of RD$10.8 billion. Income during September, October and November 2012 totaled a little over RD$93 billion and expenditure was limited to RD$82.6 billion. El Caribe reports that this is due to the forced reduction of expenditure …

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The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Justice and chairman of the Judicial Branch Council, Mariano German Mejia, warned that in the hands of reckless judges given to detours, the law of guarantees becomes a danger for society. In his keynote speech yesterday, Monday 7 January during the solemn session in celebration of the …

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The Haiti-Dominican Republic bi-national fair held on Mondays and Fridays in the northwestern border town of Dajabon was suspended yesterday, Monday 7 January after the Dominican Armed Forces closed the frontier bridge over the Masacre River to halt the influx of crowds of Haitian farm workers to the Dominican Republic, which has increased tensions along …

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Central Electoral Board (JCE) judge Cesar Felix Felix urged the Medina government to allot the RD$500 million that is needed to renew the national identification and voter registration card (the “cedula”) for nearly seven million inhabitants. He stressed the importance of renewing this document, which has been overdue for several years, because of the inconveniences …

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In a symbolic event at the Nelly Biaggi School in the El Almirante sector of Santo Domingo East yesterday, Monday 7 January, attended by President Danilo Medina, the government launched the learning phase of the National Literacy Plan called “Quisqueya Learns with You” which aims to teach 851,000 young people and adults to read and …

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The Higher Electoral Court (TSE) will once more become, this Friday 11 January at 9am, a setting for two actions to be debated. With this step former President Hipolito Mejia is seeking to halt the disciplinary trial that could expel him from the PRD on the one hand and revoke three resolutions that grant power …

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The inmates in the holding cells of Higuey jail say that four people have died in the recent cholera outbreak. These inmates, who are being treated for the disease in the city’s Nuestra Senora de la Altagracia Hospital, said that the authorities have only admitted to two fatalities. They also described the hellhole in which …

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The Attorney General, Francisco Dominguez Brito and the District Attorney for the National District, Yeni Berenice Reynoso have not excluded the possibility that all the people named in Sobeida Felix Morel’s sworn statements might be called in and investigated. According to El Nuevo Diario, Dominguez Brito said that Miguel Vargas Maldonado and others said to …

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