2014 – Page 106

Haiti and Dominican Republic customs agencies have joined forces in a bid to improve transparency and speed up the process of importing and exporting merchandise through the Haiti-DR borders. Jose Gabino Polanco, technical deputy director of the Dominican Customs Agency (DGA) helped train Dominican and Haitian border agents in a workshop on international customs techniques. …

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The Ministry of Education (MINERD) says that only 50.38% of students at the middle level in general stream and 50.59% of those in the technical-professional stream had passed the second stage of the National Standardized Tests, leaving 49% to need to sit for new tests. MINERD Quality Evaluation Director Ancell Scheker Mendoza said that of …

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Judge Alba Beard Marcos from the Land Court in the National District has annulled the land titles that the government had issued for lands in the Bahia de las Aguilas beach area in the southwestern province of Pedernales. The case had been in process for more than 18 years as the title owners sought to …

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An editorial in El Nacional highlights the Constitutionally guaranteed right to free enterprise and free market for the purchase of goods and contracting of services based on agreement between the parties, and the ban on monopolies or oligopolies that alter the harmonious relationship between supply and demand. El Nacional points out that a government administrative …

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Attorney General Francisco Dominguez Brito says that he had asked the Vatican to strip former papal nuncio to the Dominican Republic Josef Wesolowski of his diplomatic immunity after he was accused of sexually abusing young boys in Santo Domingo. Dominguez Brito also left open the possibility of the Dominican government asking for the former nuncio’s …

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The Emergency Operations Center (COE) has extended its flooding and mudslide alerts to 20 provinces, but the number of people who were forced to leave their homes has now gone down to 1,495 from 369 homes. The southeastern province of San Pedro de Macoris is on red alert, while the National District and the provinces …

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The Central Electoral Board (JCE) is pleased with the pace of Dominicans applying for their new ID documents. The president of the JCE, Roberto Rosario said that 30% of the population already has the new “cedula”. He announced on Saturday, 23 August 2014 that 2,702,594 people have requested the document, and 2,220,310 documents had been …

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