2013 – Page 80

President Danilo Medina said that the issue of immigrants who have not resolved their legal status is a human problem that needs to be resolved. When interviewed on the subject during his visit to Barrick Gold yesterday, Tuesday 8 October, he gave his impressions after meeting with children of immigrants whose Dominican IDs were revoked …

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The Minister of Industry and Commerce, Jose del Castillo Savinon says that a mixed private and public sector committee will be traveling to Haiti to find a definitive solution to the trade differences between the two countries. He said that at the moment trade between the two countries is almost back to normal and expressed …

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The International Monetary Fund (IMF) issued a press release today, Wednesday 9 October on the conclusion of the First Post-Program Monitoring Discussion. It says the country’s outlook is for a gradual economic recovery with moderate inflation and a strengthening external position after a slow start of the year, with rising inflation reflecting effects of the …

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Directors and employees from several municipal councils throughout the country marched to the Congress building yesterday, Tuesday 8 October to ask legislators to modify the 2014 budget to give them a greater share. Many were dressed in black and some carried placards demanding that the government comply with Law 176-07 that establishes that 10% of …

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Organizations working on the prevention and treatment of drug addiction are asking the President for a larger budget in 2014 to prevent them from having to close. At a press conference held yesterday, Tuesday 8 October, representatives of the Hogar Crea Dominicano, Hogares Crea Internacional and Fundacion Fenix complained that their budget allocations had not …

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Speaking during the launch of a campaign by the Presidential Committee for National Pharmaceutical Policies (COPPFAN) to end the sale of fake medicines and the contraband of medicines, governmental consumer protection agency ProConsumidor director Altagracia Paulino warned that blood pressure meds, analgesics and sexual stimulants are often falsified. She said they were being adulterated with …

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Dr. Milciades Albert, president of the Dominican branch of the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecologists, speaking at their first symposium in the country, revealed that 99% of maternal deaths in the country occur in public hospitals, which is making women fear being pregnant. In private clinics a woman only occasionally dies giving birth, often …

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The National Drug Control Agency (DNCD) has confiscated 1,060 packets of cocaine weighing 1,200 kilos on Punta Salinas beach in Peravia province (Bani). The DNCD says the shipment has market value of US$15 million, as reported in Hoy. This is the largest shipment seized since Major General Julio Cesar Souffront was appointed president of the …

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Former priest Domingo Espinal, sentenced to 15 years in jail and fined RD$100,000 after being found guilty of the rape of a minor in his care at a school in INVI, will appear in court today, Wednesday 9 October before starting his jail term in La Victoria jail. He went missing in 2009 when the …

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According to General Neivis Perez Sanchez, director of the Cibao Police Department, a committee made up of high-ranking police officers has launched an investigation into the circumstances surrounding an incident when shots were fired at the vehicle in which the president of the Chamber of Deputies, Abel Martinez was passing through Navarrete on Monday night, …

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