2013 – Page 5

The Police have announced a new National Plan for Quadrant Community Surveillance. The plan seeks to reduce crime, contributing to citizen safety, while strengthening relations and trust with citizens. The program is being carried out with support and advice from officers from the Colombian Police who gave a workshop to train Dominican police for the …

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President Danilo Medina was in San Francisco de Macoris yesterday, Thursday 19 December 2013 to open a city shopping center. The old city market has been turned into the Plaza Comercial after a fire affected the installations. The work was completed in record time of seven months and cost RD$119 million. It has three floors …

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The director of the Center for Export and Investment of the Dominican Republic (CEI-RD) Jean Alain Rodriguez said that exports in 2013 are up around RD$1 billion compared to 2012. He said there was a 17% increase in exports to around US$10 billion Rodriguez said that exports have usually grown by 4-5%. He said that …

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Minister of the Presidency Gustavo Montalvo and PUCMM university rector Monsignor Agripino Nunez Collado revealed the results of the consultations for the preparation of the Education Pact yesterday, Thursday 19 December. In a press conference at the PUCMM, Montalvo said that 8,623 individuals and organizations had contributed 50,516 proposals to improve Dominican education. Minister Montalvo …

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The Central Electoral Board (JCE) has announced that its Central Civil Registry Offices nationwide will be working half days on Friday 20 and Monday, 23 December. The office will close at noon for the holidays on both days. The JCE advises anyone needing its services to visit the offices as early as possible. The announcement …

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Tax Department (DGII) director Guarocuya Felix presented the DGII’s first Territorial Statistical Report yesterday, Thursday 19 December. The study confirms that individuals and residents in Greater Santo Domingo (National District + Province of Santo Domingo) bear the main burden of taxation in the Dominican Republic, with informal work and business prevailing for the rest of …

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PRSC legislator Victor (Ito) Bisono has called for a clear willingness from the international community to help tackle the collapse of Haiti. “Haiti is a topic that the international community should deal with all together, not only for charity, but for strengthening their institutions. Much is needed to bring about the progress that is needed …

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Vice President Margarita Cedeno has called for the Attorney General to take steps to ensure that the 61-year old man, said to be the father of triplets born to a 13-year old girl, is penalized for sexual abuse, as established in the Code for Minors. “A man who commits that crime is abusing and should …

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In a statement made on Thursday, 19 December, the non-governmental organization Citizen Participation is calling on the Attorney General Office to investigate those responsible for the fiscal deficit in 2012. Roberto Alvarez, general coordinator of the civil society movement, said that the demands are based on a report that was prepared by the technical commission …

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The World Health Organization is warning that cases of the mosquito-borne illness known as chikungunya have been reported in the Caribbean. Chikungunya virus is indigenous to tropical Africa and Asia, where it is transmitted to humans by the bite of infected mosquitoes, usually of the genus Aedes. The virus, which had never been seen before …

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