2014 – Page 10

The Presidency has sent a bill for the creation of the National Export Bank (Bandex) to the Senate. The bank will be funded by government contributions that will start with RD$1 billion this year.

Foundation for Institutionalism and Justice (Finjus) president Servio Tulio Castanos, observes that the present debate on abortion, which has divided legislators in Congress, has become more political than one of health and religion. As reported in Diario Libre, Castanos speculated that the legislators would vote for the option that they perceive will cost them the …

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Monsignor Agripino Nunez Collado is leaving the post of PUCMM rector after 44 years. He is being replaced by Father Ramon Alfredo de la Cruz from the Universidad Nordestana in San Francisco de Macoris. Yesterday, 15 December 2014, he presented a report on achievements of the university from September 2013 to August 2014. It reveals …

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Two of the leading public transport unions, Conatra and Mochotran, have announced cuts of RD$5 to their fares on urban routes and up to RD$20 on inter-urban routes. The transport associations agreed that drivers of vehicles using diesel and propane gas (LPG) have had considerable operational cost savings that they will now begin to pass …

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Several organizations have asked the Ministry of the Environment and the Public Prosecution Service for the Defense of the Environment to stop the construction and operation of a dolphin park owned by the Dolphin Discovery Group in the new Downtown Punta Cana complex. The groups claim that it is breaking the law. The request was …

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Former President Leonel Fernandez hosted a Christmas lunch for the members of the ruling PLD party’s Central Committee yesterday, Monday 15 December 2014. The event commemorated 41 years since the party’s foundation. Fernandez is the president of the ruling PLD political party. The meeting took place at the time of an alleged split in the …

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The 2016 presidential, congressional and municipal election campaign is set to start in 2015. In a timely move, the First International Political Communication Congress is being held this month. Political marketing and campaign strategy specialists will be attending the event scheduled for 21 December 2014. Carlos Azar, president of the advertising agency Cazar DDB that …

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Golfris Tatis of the Dominican consulate in Puerto Rico has told El Nacional that there has been an increase in requests for residence and business visas from Puerto Ricans interested in relocating or opening branches in the Dominican Republic. She said that Puerto Ricans are seeking new horizons given the economic crisis that affects them …

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An Air France passenger jet travelling to Paris from Santo Domingo, made an emergency landing in Ireland after chili peppers set off the fire alarm during the transatlantic flight The flight crew declared an emergency after the alarm went off in the cargo hold and the plane landed at Shannon Airport resulting in passengers being …

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San Cristobal judge Jose Perez Medina has imposed one year of preventive custody on 25-year old Alexander Laque de la Rosa (Gipi) accused of raping eight women in Barsequillo, Haina. The rapist would break in to houses in the early morning, beat up the women, who were mostly single, rape them, and rob them. The …

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