2014 – Page 131

Hospitals are reporting fewer cases of Chikungunya in the Greater Santo Domingo area. Hoy newspaper reports that reduced numbers of suspected cases of chikungunya and dengue fever are now being registered in emergency rooms. La chikungunya sigue a la baja en Santo Domingo

President Danilo Medina inaugurated the new Center for Intelligence to Combat Organized Crime at the police headquarters on Friday, 25 July 2014. In his keynote speech marking the opening of the new center, Police Chief Major General Manuel Castro Castillo said the increase in organized crime activities have made it difficult for the Police to …

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Santiago Chamber of Commerce executive director Fernando Puig and board members Osmar Schwarbarl and Juan Carlos Hernandez say that “the good days of the 1980s” are back at the Santiago free zones thanks to an increase in contracts benefitting the industries in recent years and new expansions at the industrial parks. He commented on new …

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Yesterday, Thursday 24 July 2014, President Medina opened five new schools in the southwestern province of Peravia (Bani) with 85 classrooms at a cost of RD$205 million. The inauguration ceremony was held at the Paya high school, but he received other elementary schools for the government at the same time – Peravia Fundacion, Professor Marino …

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The United Nations has launched its 2014 Human Development Report. The report focuses on Sustaining Human Progress: Reducing Vulnerabilities and Building Resilience. The Dominican Republic is listed in 102nd place on a list of 187 countries, the same ranking as in last year’s report. It is ranked last in the high human development category, the …

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A new 50-kilowatt power plant lights up Saona, the 110 km? island in the National Park of the East. A collection of beaches, but without hotels, the visit to the island is the most popular excursion taken by tourists visiting the Dominican Republic’s southeastern tourist resorts. The Ministry of Environment has installed a solar powered …

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Family planning experts say that the lack of priority given by the government to teenage pregnancies is behind the alarmingly high rate of teenage pregnancies in the Dominican Republic. At a press conference called by ProFamilia, a local organization that promotes family planning, Carmen Barroso, director for the western hemisphere for the International Family Planning …

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