2013 – Page 94

Metropolitan Transport Authority (AMET) agents have asked street vendors and window washers to leave their “posts” at several main Santo Domingo avenue intersections. Vendors have been removed from intersections including 27 de Febrero and Winston Churchill, 27 de Febrero and Abraham Lincoln, Sarasota and Enrique Jimenez Moya, and 27 de Febrero and Jose Nunez Caceres …

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The Medina government is preparing to launch Bandex, or the National Export Development Bank. The bank will use the installations and equipment of the Banco Nacional de Fomento de la Vivienda y la Produccion (BNV), a government entity that in recent years has made headlines for charges of widespread wasteful governmental spending. In its early …

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Thousands of bus passengers have been affected by the transport strike called by transporters who want the government to intervene in the discussions between the companies that want the control of passengers n Conatra, Fenatrano and Unatrafin. The situation also affected Greater Santo Domingo when Fenatrano buses that serve the city also stopped their bus …

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Political analysts are criticizing the ruling PLD party for using its majority in Congress to pass a bill that will mainly serve to strengthen political patronage. As reported in Diario Libre, the position is that the bill on preferential vote passed in the Chamber of Deputies should have been part of the Bill of Political …

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Minister of the Presidency Gustavo Montalvo has announced the installation of an automatic system that will connect the services of the AMET with the DGII and Customs fine systems to make them more effective. Montalvo said that this measure would make it easier to feed the database to establish and effectively collect the traffic fines. …

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The Ministry of Labor has authorized a minimum wage of RD$8,220 a month for non-profit organizations. This is the wage that is used by non-profits that include condominiums, education, health, and rehabilitation organizations. In the case of apprentices, the wage will be paid depending on the number of hours worked, based on the established minimum …

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The Department of Migration says that companies that employ illegal workers are subject, as of 19 October of this year to the inspections that the agency will be carrying out to check into the legality of company personnel. The department says the government will begin to apply Law 285-04 and its ruling, including Arts. 131 …

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The assistant prosecutor and coordinator of the Attorney General Office’s Anti-Drug Asset Laundering Unit, German Miranda Villalona says the authorities are on the trail of the illegal long financial arm of drug trafficking in the country. Miranda said they are looking to establish the source of the RD$6 million in bail posted by the two …

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The leading Dominican maternity hospital, La Altagracia, is managing the case of a 13-year old girl from San Jose de Ocoa who is pregnant with triplets, reportedly by a 60-year old man. Hospital director Dr. Victor Calderon says the girl is suffering from malnutrition and is being treated with vitamins. Once she is stable, she …

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Dominican designer Sully Bonnelly will be launching his pret-a-porter collection for the Jumbo department store this year. Now in its fifth year, the Jumbo collection has made available clothes designed by leading Dominican designers that sell out fast. The collections in the past have launched originals by Leonel Lirio, Jenny Polanco, Gutierrez-Marcano and Magaly Tiburcio. …

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