2013 – Page 77

The Executive Branch has set up a special commission to review and update the Dominican Labor Code. The commission is due to present its proposed changes to the Presidency no later than four months from now. Decree 286-13 appoints Jose Dario Suarez, Joaquin Luciano, Marisol Vicents, Adriano Jimenez Valdez, Jefrey Lizardo and Jose Vicente as …

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The Center for Advanced Medicine Diagnostics, Medical Conferences and Telemedicine (Cedimat), the privately operated Dominican government hospital located at the Plaza de la Salud complex, and the Montefiore Medical Center in New York have signed a cooperation agreement aimed at increasing services for Dominican heart patients. Cedimat’s soon to open Cardiovascular Center will operate under …

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The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) has published its annual report showing that the region continues to attract significant FDI following three years of continued rises and historic figures. According to ECLAC, governments should make the most of this to channel such investment into sectors that can help to change the …

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The Dominican government has signed a memorandum of understanding for direct access to the World Customs Organization and Interpol database. Under the agreement, systems at the Las Americas and Punta Cana international airports will be interconnected to fight organized crime. The agreement was signed yesterday, Thursday 10 October at the Ministry of Interior and Police. …

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The government of Haiti is building a cement wall in Carrizal, a popular crossing point eight kilometers away from the Dominican Migration and Customs offices in Elias Pina, reports El Dia. Dominican and Haitian traders complain that the wall will affect the normal trade flow between both countries. The traders said they will end up …

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The whereabouts of the daughter of Haitians whose situation has been used as a test case in the Constitutional Court ruling 168-13 that reaffirmed that the children of foreigners who do not have legal status in the Dominican Republic are not entitled to Dominican nationality at birth are unknown. Immigration Department director Jose Ricardo Taveras …

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Lawyer Carlos Balcacer has called for an agreement between the Dominican and Haitian states. He said international organizations should help Haiti document its nationals. He said Haiti “has always been a factory of undocumented human beings,” as reported in El Caribe. “Haiti is a country that does not let others help it, there has been …

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Writing in Diario Libre today, Friday 11 October, editorialist Adriano Miguel Tejada describes the weaknesses in the civil registry, where thousands of Dominican IDs have been issued fraudulently. He was referring to comments by Central Electoral Board (JCE) president Roberto Rosario about the “raid on the civil registry” regarding the many cases of fraud detected …

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The river that divides eastern and western Santo Domingo could become a major tourist attraction. The operators of the Sans Souci tourist port want the river clean-up programs to continue, with the elimination of industries and slums that dump all their waste into the river. As reported in Diario Libre, the Ozama and Isabela rivers …

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Grupo Jaragua, the non-governmental agency that has worked for the conservation of biodiversity in the southwest of the Dominican Republic for many years has won the Brugal Believes in its People Grand Prize for 2013 in the environmental protection category yesterday evening, Thursday 10 October. It received a cash prize of RD$1.5 million. The ceremony …

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