2014 – Page 231

Lawyer Namphi Rodriguez, the president of the Press and Law Foundation, has pointed out an important issue for women in the changes in the Penal Process Code: victims of rape, incest or women pregnant with deformed children will be forced to carry their pregnancies to full term or face jail sentences of up to three …

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Excess staff hired to the Dominican foreign service is causing major difficulties to those that are hard at work representing the Dominican Republic abroad. It is known that hundreds of staff appointed to the missions do not carry out any role, and many spend more time in the Dominican Republic than abroad. Diario Libre editorialist …

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The Supreme Court of Justice rejected a motion to dismiss filed by the Ramos Group and the Multicentro La Sirena Charles de Gaulle, and ordered the company to pay for the vehicle stolen from their parking lot. As a result, the SCJ confirmed the sentence that ordered them to pay RD$400,000 to Yolanda Martinez, whose …

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Rosario Graciano de los Santos spoke at the roundtable on “Difficulties of the Political Representation of Women in Latin America, the road to equality”, and she suggested that the Central Electoral Board has recommended that the candidates to the Chamber of Deputies and city councils should be 50% female under an alternating system. The issue …

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The Unit for Noise Pollution (Unidad de Atencion a Casos de Contaminacion Sonica) of the Province of Santo Domingo is an example for the rest of the country, reports Diario Libre today. The report highlights how authorities have gotten liquor stores, colmadones and bars and dance clubs to reduce noise pollution by enclosing their establishments …

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Puerto Rican salsa singer Marc Anthony was in La Romana this week for the opening of the Orfanato Ninos de Cristo undertaken by Anthony and Henry Cardenas under the Maestro Cares Foundation. Vice President Margarita Cedeno and the president of the Senate Reinaldo Pared Perez were special guests at the opening of the Orfanato Ninos …

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Not to be missed by those who admire contemporary art, Jorge Pineda’s exhibition, “After all, tomorrow is another day”, featuring 20 of his works continues at the Museum of Modern Art (MAM) in Plaza de la Cultura. The exhibit will be open through 3 May. The exhibit includes paintings, drawings, sculptures and installations, and has …

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The Pact for Education Reform signed yesterday, Tuesday, 1 April, seeks to improve the quality of public education for all children from the age of three. The Pact calls for extending the school day to the afternoon and implementing major improvements in teacher-training programs. It also incorporates a sex education curriculum for all grades. As …

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In an opinion piece in today’s edition of Diario Libre it was claimed that the country would do better if the RD$7.12 billion budget allotted to the state university UASD was distributed among private universities. The author of the opinion piece (signed Castillo), stated that recent statistics provided by the university indicate that the UASD …

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Yesterday, the initiative was passed unanimously by 129 legislators on its first reading, and in the required second reading with 126 votes. The bill now moves to the Senate for further study and debate. The president of the Chamber of Deputies, Abel Martinez, said that the Penal Code had been in Congress for ten years …

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