2013 – Page 49

Another fatal trip in which a group Haitian would-be migrants entrusted their lives to ruthless smugglers to take them to US territory and what they believed would be a better life. Two unidentified persons are known to have drowned and another 13 undocumented Haitians (seven men and six women) reportedly reached Mona Island alive, Jeffrey …

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Miss Dominican Republic Yaritza Reyes made it in the Top 10 of 86 candidates in the Miss Universe contest held on Saturday, 9 November in Moscow. The winner was Venezuelan Maria Gabriela de Jesus Isler Morales. The first runner-up was Miss Spain, Patricia Yurena. The Top 10 were: Second Runner-Up: Miss Universe Ecuador, Constanza Baez.?Rest …

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The Tigres del Licey have strengthened their first place position and are now three games ahead of the Aguilas Cibaenas. On Sunday, 10 November the Estrellas Orientales defeated the home club Gigantes del Cibao 5-1 in San Pedro de Macoris. The Toros defeated the Leones del Escogido 6-1 in their hometown, La Romana. In Santo …

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Billed as the Caribbean region’s leading film festival, the Funglode Film Festival opens tomorrow, Tuesday 12 November with a screening of Biodegradable by Dominican director Juan Basanta after the inaugural speeches at the National Theater at 6pm. The festival, which brings together well-known movie producers, actors and film industry members, seeks to cultivate an appreciation …

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The United Nations Resident Coordinator in the Dominican Republic, Lorenzo Jimenez now says that the Immigrant Regularization Plan is the only solution to the problem of undocumented foreigners in the country, as reported in Diario Libre. He said that the Constitutional Court Ruling 168-13 that orders the plan could not be challenged because it cannot …

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The European Union head of Delegation in the Dominican Republic, Alberto Navarro says that the EU does not plan to send a mission to the country to investigate the Constitutional Court ruling 168-13, as requested by the Haitian government, according to El Dia. He said that the Brussels position is that human rights should be …

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The Central Electoral Board (JCE) says that the inventory of the civil registry books dating back to 1929 has revealed that there are 13,672 irregularly registered Haitians. This is a far cry from the 688,000 figure and the “tens of thousands” that critics of the Constitutional Court 168-13 decision on nationality have been using. The …

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In today’s Diario Libre editorial, executive editor Adriano Miguel Tejada writes that the inventory of the number of birth declarations made by foreigners in the Dominican civil registry can be taken in two ways: as a starting point for the solution of an urgent problem, or simply rejecting it for any reason. Tejada considers that …

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Central Bank manager Ervin Novas Bello says that the problem with the RD$2,000 bill 2013 series originated in France at the banknote printer, Oberthur Fiduciaire, one of the leading private security printers in the world. As reported in El Dia, when the rejects from the printing operation should have been pulped, some 8,403 RD$2,000 banknotes …

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The Constitutional Court has ruled that Cayo Levantado, an island in the Bay of Samana, is in the public domain and cannot be registered as private property. By means of ruling 194-13, the Constitutional Court annuls an order for the division of property rights on the island between around 3,000 people who claim inheritance rights, …

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