2014 – Page 113

The Dominican Republic won game 2 (63-62) against the University of Kentucky in a six-game exhibition series in Bahamas that served as a warm up for the start of the US collegiate season for the University of Kentucky and for the DR’s commitments in the FIBA World Championships at the end of the month. Jack …

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These past two years have been a long honeymoon period during which President Danilo Medina has dealt with thorny issues and made about-turns on certain controversial measures, writes Diario Libre. In a feature, the newspaper feature highlights that Medina has maintained his image as an accessible and “all-terrain” President. Tomorrow, Saturday 16 August 2014, the …

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The Ministry of Education says that 814,000 students, up from 200,000 at the start of the Medina administration, in 6,207 classrooms at 422 state schools will be attending the new extended school days this new academic year, which starts on Monday, 18 August 2014. This means that 40% of Dominican students in the public school …

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Dominga Perez, an unemployed single mother who lives in Los Girasoles, took a RD$5,000 loan at 20% interest to buy school supplies for her six-year-old son who is going to preschool at a low-cost private school. With a long list of requirements in her hand, Diario Libre accompanied her on her trip along Santo Domingo’s …

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Customs director Fernando Fernandez has empowered the Attorney General, the National Drug Control Agency (DNCD) chief and the Tax Office (DGII) director with a request for an investigation into suspected money laundering regarding 2,308 checks retained over the last three weeks from companies that operate under the umbrella of “Express Mail”. Meanwhile, at 9am today, …

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A blog post on the World Bank website by Aleksandra Iwulska, Javier Eduardo Baez and Alan Fuchs joins voices that have expressed concern about the Dominican government’s rising debt. The experts mention that debt levels in the DR are already close to 47% of GDP, with the maximum debt level estimated to be 56.7%. The …

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The construction of the Punta Catalina Thermoelectric Plant, composed of two coal-fired generating plants, will continue despite the suspension of the process of the international public tender for this project ordered by the Superior Administrative Tribunal (TSA) on Wednesday, 13 August 2014. The executive vice president of the Dominican Public Electricity Corporation (CDEEE) Ruben Jimenez …

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To optimize the power production by the northern hydroelectric and provide a better service to consumers, the Empresa de Generacion Hidroelectrica Dominicana (EGEHID) has signed an agreement with northern power distribution company EdeNorte. EgeHID and EdeNorte agreed to join forces to rehabilitate networks and build substations and infrastructure to improve the electricity sector. The agreement …

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The Dominican Telecommunications Institute (Indotel) has warned that it will apply sanctions to financial companies and collection agencies making collection calls to customers in violation of the regulations set out in law 153-98. Indotel points out that it will not tolerate phone calls to customers outside the hours between 7am and 7pm as established by …

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The Dominican state security agencies have arrested 11 of the hundreds of escaped convicts who broke out of prison on Sunday, 10 August 2014. The escape from the jail at Croix-des-Bouquets, just outside Port-au-Prince, was engineered to free Clifford Brandt, the son of an influential Haitian businessman, who was awaiting trial on kidnapping charges. Brandt …

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