2014 – Page 128

Yesterday, Tuesday 29 July 2014, President Danilo Medina inspected the area affected by a forest fire that has been burning for almost two weeks in the Juan Bautista Perez Rancier National Park in Valle Nuevo in Constanza. Although it had not rained for months, when he arrived it was drizzling in the central mountain area …

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Economist Nelson Suarez alerted to the increasing public debt. He said the national debt is reaching unsustainable levels. “The issues of debt service, the quasi-fiscal debt of the Central Bank and the electricity subsidy are three swords of Damocles hanging a top fiscal, macroeconomic and social stability in the Dominican Republic,” he said. Economista Suárez …

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Dominicans are experiencing daily rationing of both electricity and water, the former due to financial deficits and the latter due to the drought that is affecting the whole country. However they are both related as the lack of rain has led to a lack of water in the dams that feed the hydroelectric power stations, …

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According to Minister of Interior and Police Jose Ramon Fadul, who is also president of the National Migration Council, the National Foreigner Regularization Plan has been in effect for two months and so far only 17 people are ready to be checked by investigation agencies, after having submitted all of the necessary documents. These foreigners …

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The Central Electoral Board (JCE) has announced that the application for an identity card (cedula) for Juliana Deguis Pierre is now complete and she can now collect her cedula. Deguis Pierre has been at the forefront of Haitians demanding Dominican citizenship but to date had no identity card. The Constitutional Court had determined that her …

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Cases of chikungunya virus continue to decline in the Greater Santo Domingo, San Cristobal, Peravia, Monte Plata and San Jose de Ocoa. But official epidemiological reports indicate there has been an increase in dengue fever in the Cibao region of dengue fever, which is transmitted by the same mosquito. The later has now caused 42 …

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Celso Marranzini, former president of the National Council of Business, announced that a team of lawyers would give free legal counsel to those that claim they have been scammed by the TelexFree operation in the Dominican Republic. He criticized that the alledged Ponzi scheme was widely promoted on radio and TV, and even in the …

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The former chief operating officer of the National Drug Control Agency (DNCD) pleaded guilty on Tuesday, 29 July 2014 to US charges that he conspired with drug traffickers to transport cocaine into the United States. At a hearing in US district court in Manhattan, Francisco Hiraldo Guerrero, 54, admitted being part of the traffickers’ conspiracy. …

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Officers from the Cibao Regional Headquarters of the National Police arrested members of a police patrol who have allegedly accepted more than a million pesos and US$15,000 in bribes to allow an alleged criminal to go free. The criminal carried out an armed robbery on a moneylender last Thursday in San Cristobal who had RD$30 …

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