2014 – Page 23

Have no doubt, the Dominican Republic’s largest foreign debt, the bilateral debt owed to Venezuela and taken on by governments under enticing financial conditions through PetroCaribe, now has to be paid. Venezuela has sold the debt to Goldman Sachs. As reported in El Nuevo Herald, the Spanish affiliate of the Miami Herald newspaper, multinational investment …

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National District Mayor Roberto Salcedo says that next year the government and local authorities will start the second phase of cleaning up the area around the city’s Duarte Avenue as part of the rebuilding of the main markets in the capital. The city government has looked the other way and allowed a major market of …

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President Danilo Medina sent his congratulations to the new President-elect of Uruguay, Tabare Vazquez Rosas, yesterday, Monday 1 December 2014. Vazquez won the presidential election in the second round vote. He ran for the Popular Front coalition that won the election for the third consecutive time. Medina commented on the excellent bilateral relations that exist …

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The government has presented awards to 15 small and medium-sized businesses for their excellent management and good practices. At an event held at the Presidential Palace yesterday, Monday 1 December 2014, the Ministry of Industry and Commerce represented by the Deputy Ministry of Small and Medium-sized Businesses (Pymes) headed by Ignacio Mendez, ended a week …

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The Dominican Republic continues to lobby for the removal of the order for tobacco products to be sold in generic packaging in Australia. Director General of Foreign Trade Katrina Naut, who is representing the Dominican Republic in the case, said that the measure has not reduced smoking in Australia, which was the original reason for …

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According to the director of the National Council for HIV and AIDS (CONAVIHSIDA) Victor Terrero, the Dominican Republic has the second highest number of cases in Latin America and the Caribbean, with Haiti in first place. According to Terrero, around 45,000 people in this country have the virus, which is a rate of 0.8% and …

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Today, Tuesday 2 December 2014 in Vatican City, Pope Francis and Muslim, Jewish, Hindu, Buddhist and Christian leaders pledged to use their religions to help stamp out modern slavery and human trafficking by 2020. Coincidentally, an editorial column today, Tuesday 2 December 2014, Nelson Rodriguez of Diario Libre comments that pro-Haitian campaigners are either “blind …

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Tulio Jimenez, the PLD deputy representing San Cristobal, says that more than 70% of his colleagues support the re-election of President Danilo Medina. He said that there was a meeting recently of 60 legislators who confirmed that Medina would be the best person to lead the party in the 2016 elections, due to his domestic …

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The Dominican Republic is working closely with Polish prosecutors in the case of Polish priest Wojciech Waldemar (Alberto Gil) accused of sexual abuse in Juncalito in Santiago province. However, Attorney General Francisco Dominguez Brito says the prosecution of former papal nuncio Josef Wesolowski has been delegated to the Vatican. Dominguez Brito was speaking at a …

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National District prosecutor Luis Gonzalez is asking for a protective custody term for a man accused of stealing more than RD$50 million using high technology, fraud and illegal access to the pension fund for Construction workers (FOPETCONS). The accused is Moises Rigoberto Pena Espinal who is currently in preventative custody at the Palacio de Justicia …

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