2014 – Page 162

President Danilo Medina has congratulated his Colombian counterpart, Juan Manuel Santos following his victory in his country’s presidential elections on Sunday 15 June, and said that he hopes his time in office will increase peace and relationships between the two countries. President Medina spoke to Santos on the telephone yesterday, Monday 16 June and sent …

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Minister of Interior and Police Jose Ramon Fadul has reiterated his call to the Haitian authorities to provide greater support to the process of issuing legal documentation to their nationals. He says that since the start of the foreigner nationalization plan, 31,000 foreigners have applied, of whom 97% are Haitian. Only 100 of the applicants …

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Juliana Deguis Pierre received her birth certificate at the Central Electoral Board (JCE) yesterday, Monday 16 June, as reported in Listin Diario. The daughter of undocumented Haitian immigrants, she was born in the Dominican Republic. Deguis is in the spotlight after being used as a test case for people who did not lawfully qualify for …

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President Danilo Medina has appointed Francisco Gustavo Lembert Cano as Dominican consul in Ouanaminthe, Haiti, taking over from Eunice Jimeno. He also appointed Maximo Felix as Dominican consul in Anse-a-Pitre, Haiti, taking over from Francisco Alberto Jimenez Sena. Finally, Emely Cruz Ramirez becomes deputy Ambassador affiliated to the Ministry of Foreign Relations. http://presidencia.gob.do/comunicados/presidente-medina-designa-nuevos-c%C3%B3nsules-en-juana-m%C3%A9ndez-y-ansapitre-hait%C3%AD

The idea originally came from the Haitians themselves when they started building a wall in order to prevent contraband from the Dominican Republic. The Haitian government wants to charge more import taxes. Today’s Diario Libre back page editorial, Tuesday 17 June, makes light of the first statements by the country’s newest legislator, Marino Vinicio Castillo, …

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Herrera and Santo Domingo Province Industries Association (AEIH) president Victor Castro says that the government should not sign an agreement aimed at extending its Cogentrix contract to 20 years. Cogentrix is a power plant that is turned off because it costs the government less to pay non-generation penalty than to take on the operating cost. …

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Businesspeople and economists in the Dominican Republic are reiterating their call on the government to make savings in their internal spending, as a way of reducing the need to take on more debt. They say that wasteful spending by the PLD administrations has led the country to owe 50% of its Gross Domestic Product. An …

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The United States Embassy in the Dominican Republic has started operating from its new site at Av. Republica de Colombia in the Arroyo Hondo area of northern Santo Domingo. Whilst some of its first visitors said that procedures are now much better and faster than before, others complained that many of the same problems that …

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Seven outbreaks of porcine epidemic diarrhea (PED) in the country since November 2013 have resulted in the deaths of more than 26,000 piglets, as reported online by The Pig Site. A recent report outlines seven outbreaks of PED in several districts in the centre of the country starting between November 2013 and 25 May 2014. …

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National Drug Control Agency (DNCD) spokesman Miguel Medina says that over the weekend of 14-15 June the DNCD and the Public Prosecution Service confiscated 29 new vehicles from Auto Modelo on kilometer 15 of the Santiago-Moca road. The dealership is owned by Geovanny Antonio Rodriguez Abreu alias Georgy, who is believed to be one of …

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