2013 – Page 88

The first day of the 72-hour strike called by the Dominican Medical Association (CMD) yesterday, Monday 30 September, left thousands of patients unable to have consultations. The Ministry of Public Health has called on the strike leaders to engage in talks, reminding them that they still had not closed the door to the possibility of …

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Digicel Group is bidding for Orange Dominicana in the Dominican Republic. Digicel is one of five bidders interested in the company that is expected to be sold by the end of the year, Bloomberg reports, citing unnamed sources with knowledge of the matter. Digicel could be good news for local consumers, by bringing badly needed …

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Police officers attached to the Central Anti Narcotics Division (DICAN), have confiscated 354.3g of a green grass-like substance and 60.8g of a white powder that they believe to be marijuana and cocaine in a raid in the Barbacoa sector in Las Terrenas, in the Samana Peninsula where a suspected drug dealer was arrested. Armando Altagracia …

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According to the National Meteorological Office (Onamet) the recent heavy rains will continue today, Tuesday 1 and tomorrow Wednesday 2 October due to high levels of humidity and the instability of the air across the country. They say that conditions are dominated by a weather front and a tropical wave located over the west of …

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Around 150 Dominican musicians will have the chance to take part in the first workshop on contemporary music being offered by the Berklee College of Music at the National Conservatory of Music in Santo Domingo from 7 to 12 January next year. The workshop is part of the Berklee on the Roads program whereby the …

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Minister of Tourism Francisco Javier Garcia, who recently began his campaign for the ruling party presidential candicacy, announced that legendary Dominican merengue musician, composer and singer Wilfrido Vargas and his band will go on tour of 42 cities from now to January. The tour will open with Vargas playing a concert in Puerto Plata on …

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In response to the overwhelming positive critical reviews and audience reception, musical producer Amaury Sanchez will be presenting the Philharmonic Orchestra of Santo Domingo playing rock music classics at 8:30pm on Saturday, 12 October at the National Theater’s Carlos Piantini main hall. Forty classical musicians will play the music of around 20 songs by rock …

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President Danilo Medina traveled to Sabana de la Mar in the province of Hato Mayor over the weekend of 28-29 September to speak to farmers and small business owners. He met with fishermen, rice producers and a women’s group that produces sheets, mosquito nets and curtains and another that makes sweets using coconuts, sweet potatoes …

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The Central Electoral Board (JCE) published a new ruling today, Monday September 30 that makes transparent the process of information provision from the civil registry in the Dominican Republic. The ruling is based on the judgment of the Constitutional Court No. TC/0062/13. It sets the norms for the private and government entities that have access …

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Doctors at 168 hospitals nationwide announced a strike starting at 6am this morning, Monday September 30. The strike will affect public hospitals and medical centers under the governmental Dominican Institute of Social Security. The strike comes in response to the Minister of Economy, Planning and Development who said in the 2014 budget, soon to be …

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