2014 – Page 157

The Ministry of Education (Minerd) is in the process of adding 800,000 more students to the Extended School Day Program. The education authorities are assessing candidates for between 6,000 and 7,000 teaching posts within the system. Deputy Minister Luis Matos and Human Resources director Vivian Baez told Listin Diario that their original target for the …

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Health ministers from Central America and the Dominican Republic are meeting in Santo Domingo today, Thursday 26 June 2014, to discuss advances in health care in the region. The 40th Ordinary Meeting of the Council of Ministers of Central America and the Dominican Republic (COMISCA in Spanish) is being held as part of a series …

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The Inter-American Development Bank has approved a $100 million dollar loan for the health sector in the Dominican Republic. According to Listin Diario, the loan is to increase “spending efficiency in the sector and improve the quality of the services provided to the country’s poorest people.” The loan is part of a line of credit …

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Michel Martelly visited the offices of the Organization of American States in Washington, D.C. yesterday, Wednesday 25 June 2014, and was received by secretary general Jose Miguel Insulza. One item on their agenda was the election process in Haiti and another was the plan of action to support Haiti’s plan to provide identification documents to …

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After four hours of debate yesterday, Wednesday 25 June 2014, the Chamber of Deputies voted to reject the modifications made by the Senate to their bill to create a National Park at Loma Miranda. 96 deputies voted against and 39 voted in favor, while nine abstained. Most of the positive votes came from the PRD …

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Yesterday, Wednesday 25 June, the National Business Council (Conep) accused the government administrations over the past decade for being responsible for the large percentage of informal workers in the country (65%). Conep president Manuel Diez Cabral said that the administrations of the past ten years, headed by the same party that currently holds the reins …

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The country has registered 136,835 suspected cases of the Chikungunya virus, including 30,519 new cases, of which eight are confirmed, the Public Health Ministry Central Epidemiology Directorate reported yesterday, Wednesday 25 June. The suspicious deaths attributed to the disease are still at three, and the rate of incidence is 1,318 per 100,000 inhabitants. The epidemiological …

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This week, the courts in Santiago de los Caballeros have sentenced two men to the maximum 30-year sentence for killing their former wives or girlfriends. In one case, a university professor who killed his former girlfriend and threw her body into the canal was sentenced to pay three million pesos in damages to the family …

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President Danilo Medina met with the president of the Puerto Plata Swimming Club Juan Carlos Morales and his son Juan Carlos Jr. at the Presidential Palace yesterday, Monday 23 June 2014. Following the visit, Juan Carlos Morales Jr. told reporters that they had discussed the growth of sports tourism in the Puerto Plata area in …

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