2014News

Wasteful government spending

In her editorial in Diario Libre today, Thursday 11 December 2014, Ines Aizpun focuses on politicians getting rich, and Dominicans getting poorer. “Spending on electoral campaigns for the 2016 election is unprecedented,” she writes. She complains about ministers or government officials who have been showing off economic wealth that it totally unrelated to their positions …

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2014News

Tourism wants to animate colonial ruins

As part of the process of transformation underway in the Colonial City of Santo Domingo, the Ministry of Tourism plans refurbish the monuments currently in ruins in order to add them to the historical center’s tourism prospectus. During the celebration of the International Seminar of Contemporary Architecture in Historical Centers, held at the Ibero-American University …

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2014News

More troops sent to border

Defense Minister Lieutenant General Maximo Munoz Delgado told reporters yesterday, Wednesday 10 December 2014 that the border with Haiti is being reinforced with 1,800 new troops in preparation for the Christmas season. He said that troop numbers were being increased in anticipation of a possible increase in the flow of immigrants making the illegal crossing …

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