2014 – Page 158

The Monetary Board has approved a series of tools that will serve as financial guarantees for small businesses that are requesting loans. The “Societies of Reciprocal Guarantees” (Sociedades de Garantias Reciprocas) and “Guarantee Societies” (Sociedades de Reafianzamiento) will make it easier for small business to access lower-cost financing. Third parties will provide provisional funds for …

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The Public Electricity Corporation (CDEEE) has signed an energy purchasing agreement with the AES Dominicana group’s Dominican Power Partners. The six-year contract will enable the implementation of the Los Minas V and VI combined cycle power project. According to the CDEE, the installation of the combined cycle option means that the power plant will increase …

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The Dominican Medical Association (CMD) has said that the chikungunya virus has affected more than 200,000 people nationwide causing emergency rooms across the country to overflow. CMD president Dr. Pedro Sing says that in addition, 20 to 30% of doctors were now infected and he called on Public Health Minister Dr. Freddy Hidalgo Nunez and …

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Early sexual initiation among Dominican adolescents is not only leading to an increase in teenage pregnancies but is also resulting in an increase in sexually-transmitted diseases (STDs), previously only seen in adults. The STDs include syphilis, chlamydia, genital herpes, venereal warts, thrush, trichomoniasis and HIV. In 2013, the STD department at the Dr. Humberto Bogaert …

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Yesterday, Monday 23 June, farmers, community leaders, residents and representatives from various authorities in San Jose de Ocoa province protested outside the National Palace in Santo Domingo demanding that the government construct the second phase of the Cruce de Ocoa-Piedra Blanca highway. According to the provincial deputy Esther Minyetti, the second phase is 58 kilometers …

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The Haitian government has temporarily banned the import of live pigs from the Dominican Republic and other countries due to the presence of Viral Porcine Diarrhea, which affects pigs but not humans. In a press release, the Haitian Agriculture Minister said that the disease was caused by a virus which is present in the Dominican …

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The international press freedom campaign group Reporters Without Borders says that they are shocked at the heavy-handed arrests of two journalists by drug police during separate operations in the past two weeks, and the arrests of the daughters of a third journalist in one of the incidents, especially as violence against journalists is rare in …

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The Police have announced the arrest of Santos Bautista (Julito Kilo) who has been presented by the Police on numerous occasions as the head of a dangerous gang of contract killers to whom the Police attributes the death of at least seven people in the eastern region. He was arrested in San Pedro de Macoris. …

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National Drug Control Agency (DNCD) agents have confiscated 20 packets of what is thought to be heroin or cocaine from the insides of 10 pairs of sports shoes found in two suitcases owned by a couple from the United States. They were both arrested when planning to board a plane to Atlanta, Georgia at the …

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The National Meteorological office (ONAMET) says that the high temperatures are forecast to continue with isolated thunderstorms in the provinces of Santiago and Dajabon. They are advising the public to wear light clothing and drink sufficient liquids to prevent dehydration. http://www.listindiario.com/la-republica/2014/6/23/327038/Temperaturas-altas-y-chubascos-para-hoy-en-el-territorio-nacional