2013 – Page 65

The National Association of Young Entrepreneurs (ANJE) has issued a call for the parties involved to speed up the process towards reaching the decisions needed to sign a pact with the electricity sector that will guarantee efficiency in the production and sale of electric energy. ANJE president Laura Pena Izquierdo said that a serious analysis …

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One hundred and twenty employees have been let go by the Falcondo Xstrata Nickel mining company since Tuesday, 22 October. This brings the total number of people dismissed from the company in the last two weeks to 320. Mining company executives said that the pink slips would continue to be handed out as planned in …

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With 90 deaths attributed to dengue fever so far this year, the Dominican Republic still has the highest death rate in the region. The situation is causing concern among pediatricians and other specialists as well as the Dominican Medical Association (CMD), which believes that the Public Health authorities, the city governments and the water sector …

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Former district attorney and AP presidential candidate, Guillermo Moreno announced yesterday, Wednesday 23 October, that he was going on a 48-hour fast in a church in the Cristo Rey Parish in Santo Domingo in rejection of the Supreme Court of Justice judgment that confirmed that his administrative corruption case against former President Leonel Fernandez was …

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The District Attorney of the National District, Yeni Berenice Reynoso, has agreed to consider two complaints against former Public Works Minister Victor Diaz Rua. She did not reveal who had presented the complaints. The complaints focus on alleged fraud, corruption and money laundering committed during Diaz Rua’s tenure at the Ministry of Public Works. Reynoso …

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The assets seized from drug lords like Ernesto Quirino Castillo and Jose David Figueroa Agosto are difficult to recover legally, according to the director of the Financial Analysis Unit of the National Committee Against Money Laundering, Dulce Luciano. She told a television audience that in the case of Figueroa Agosto, the courts have only recently …

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A Puerto Plata judge has ordered the opening of the court case against Gabriel Mora (Canoa), the elusive mayor of Cabarete, who over the years has successfully lobbied to avoid standing trial for accusations of serious irregularities in office. Canoa is known to have strong political support that has enabled him to stay out of …

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The second chamber of the Penal Section of the Court of Appeals has postponed the hearing of an appeal against the sentence handed down in the Paya drug-related murders for the sixteenth time. This case deals with the massacre of more than half a dozen men in Paya, Bani. One of defendants, Jorge Luis Chalas …

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A man who was caught red-handed taking apart an electricity transmission tower in San Pedro de Macoris has been sentenced to five years in prison and ordered to pay a fine equal to 50 minimum salaries by the Collegiate Tribunal of San Pedro de Macoris. The attempted dismantlement of Tower 159 of the Dominican Electricity …

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