2013 – Page 45

In an interview with El Caribe, the president of the Higher Electoral Court Mariano Rodriguez said that the Constitutional Court Ruling 168-13 that calls for the start of the immigration regularization plan seeks to resolve a situation that has been pending for years in the Dominican Republic. “There are many opinions and interpretations and I …

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A Dominican government delegation is traveling to Venezuela today, Wednesday 13 November to respond to lobbying reportedly carried out by the government of Haiti for a repeal of the government decision to apply the law and grant residence not Dominican citizenship to thousands of Haitians living in the Dominican Republic illegally. The commission will explain …

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Speaking yesterday, Tuesday 12 November, Deputy Pelegrin Castillo denounced what he described as an international campaign to use the international media to pressure for international penalizations against the Dominican Republic. As reported in Listin Diario, Castillo said that in 1999 the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) asked the San Jose Court to ban the …

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A bill that resulted from the work of the Commission for the Reform and Modernization of the State in 1999 has failed to be passed by legislators from the two political parties that have had a majority say in Congress since then. A report in El Dia today, Wednesday 13 November says that the PRD …

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One of the companies participating in the process to choose the one that will build two coal-fired generators, South Korean bidder POSCO Engineering has asked the General Office of Public Contractors to suspend the process due to a possible conflict of interest in the relationship between bidding Odebrecht and bids evaluator Stanley Consultants. POSCO Engineering …

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Lawyer Fernando Casanova y Llaca is calling for the resignation of Senator Felix Bautista of the province of San Juan de la Maguana. In an op-ed contribution to El Caribe Casanova writes that this would be best for all concerned because of Bautista’s multiple occupations and interests that make him waste time in the legislature. …

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Journalist Nuria Piera appeared before a Congressional Committee yesterday, Tuesday, 12 November, and handed over the DVDs containing her reports on San Juan de la Maguana Senator Felix Bautista, concerning the financing of the Peruvian presidential campaign of Alejandro Toledo and about his personal wealth, which had been presented to Dominican courts. The DVDs came …

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Whilst the incidence of cancer continues to rise in the country and those affected have limited access to treatment, the Rosa Emilia de Tavares National Cancer Institute, a modern cancer center that was inaugurated over a year ago, built and fully equipped at a cost of around RD$5 billion, still has not opened to serve …

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Prostate cancer has increased among older men in Dominican Republic in the last five years and by the end of 2013 its incidence is estimated at 12% of males, according to official sources. In response to this problem the Dominican Urology Society is urging all men over 40 to have medical checkups to monitor the …

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Yesterday, Tuesday 12 November Dominicans marked the 12th anniversary of the crash of an American Airlines airplane in Queens, New York, just weeks after the 9/11 attacks. Hundreds of people gathered at a seaside memorial on New York’s Rockaway peninsula to mark the 12th anniversary of the crash, which killed everyone aboard the aircraft and …

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