2014 – Page 181

Eurocine 2014 starts today, Thursday 29 May at the Plaza de la Cultura movie house in Santo Domingo, and will run through 11 June. Comedies and drama from a European cinema selection premiering in the country will be on the Cinemateca screen. Admission is free. The festival is being sponsored by the Ministry of Culture, …

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President Medina met with 17 government officials at the Presidential Palace yesterday, Tuesday 27 May 2014, to step up efforts to eliminate mosquito breeding areas to slow the pace of spreading of the chikungunya virus nationwide. Medina announced that this Friday, has been designated national chikungunya day to raise public awareness. Some 300 to 400,000 …

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Spanish investor Juan Jose (Pepe) Hidalgo, president of Globalia has announced that the company will be increasing its investment in the Dominican Republic. Following a meeting with President Danilo Medina in the Presidential Palace yesterday, Tuesday 27 May, he said that they would soon be expanding the number of hotel rooms they had in the …

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President Danilo Medina inaugurated another 37 classrooms yesterday, Tuesday 27 May in the north-central province of Hermanas Mirabal (Salcedo) where 1,295 students will now benefit from the extended school day program. The President attended an inaugural ceremony at the Julian Javier High School in Tenares. Other schools that are ready are Maria Dolores Zeno school …

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First Lady, Candida Montilla has presented over the First Prize in the Exemplary Mother Award 2014 to Ana Iris Caceres Santos, from Jima Abajo, La Vega. A further 25 mothers from the capital and the National District were honored during the event held at the El Embajador Hotel in Santo Domingo on Monday 26 May, …

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The general administrator of the Banco de Reservas, Enrique Ramirez Paniagua, has announced that the governmental bank has signed a series of financial cooperation agreements with public and private banks in the People’s Republic of China. Ramirez Paniagua declared that these agreements would lead to better connections between both countries, especially in the import and …

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The National Association of Young Entrepreneurs (ANJE) has renewed its call for improved controls on public spending. ANJE says that the government urgently needs to comply with Art. 25 and 36 of the National Development Strategy 2030 Law and enact a fiscal responsibility bill to establish consequences for omissions and deviations in the management of …

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In response to widespread criticism, the Chamber of Deputies is insisting that the purchases made with RD$176 million pesos for Mothers’ Day gifts to their constituents were in line with Law 340-06. A press release by the Chamber says that the process was supervised by its procurement committee made up of five members and that …

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According to Air Force Colonel Enmanuel Souffront Tamayo, director of the Aircraft Accident Investigation Commission, an object discovered on a beach in Higuey resembling aircraft fuselage is in fact a satellite launch capsule from Arianespace Services & Solutions, makers of satellites and based in French Guyana. He said that they had contacted the company for …

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It turned out to be a hoax, but a telephone call received at Las Americas International Airport control tower yesterday afternoon, Tuesday 27 May saying there was a bomb on board a Jetairfly plane from Brussels led to a major upheaval in flight operations. The Santo Domingo airport was closed to incoming and outgoing flights, …

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