2014 – Page 258

Mexico’s Deputy Minister of Foreign Relations, Vanessa Rubio Marquez visited Minister of Foreign Relations Carlos Morales Troncoso yesterday, Wednesday 5 March and offered to act as a mediator in the talks with Haiti. As reported, Rubio hailed the ongoing bilateral dialogue with Haiti. She said that Mexico believes in non-intervention and respects the talks, but …

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Central Bank governor Hector Valdez Albizu met with officials from the International Monetary Fund as part of their Post Program Monitoring process yesterday, Wednesday 5 March. Valdez spoke of the 4.1% growth in the GDP, which was above the IMF estimate for 2013 and the 3.9% inflation rate that was lower than predicted by the …

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The new extended school day, which runs from 8am to 4pm, is forcing principals and teachers to innovate. The first four hours of the day usually go by normally, according to reporter Bethania Apolinar and photojournalist Jorge Cruz. In the first of their two-part series in Listin Diario, they report that the difficulties and the …

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The Chamber of Deputies sent the Bill on Political Parties and Groups to a special commission for study yesterday, Wednesday 5 March. These laws, which expired in the previous legislative session, are the same laws that were being studied by the Central Electoral Board (JCE) Commission chaired by Santo Domingo province deputy Karen Ricardo. Hoy …

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The First Collegiate Tribunal of Santiago has declared the General Instruction of the Office of the Public Defender (ONDP) to be unconstitutional because it denies the assignment of lawyers to defendants who are considered to be economically solvent. The judge sent the case file of defendant Adriano Roman to the Public Defenders, who had refused …

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Dominican ambassador Hans Dannenberg, his staff and the Dominican community in India hosted 300 guests for the celebration of the 170th anniversary of Dominican Independence in New Delhi. Diplomats, Indian government officials, business executives were there to toast for the Dominican Republic at a New Delhi hotel. For the occasion, the embassy invited Dominican saxophonist …

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The Manufacturing Confidence Index shows a positive trend by going from 54.7% in the third quarter of 2013 to 57.6%. The same trend was reflected in the Business Confidence Index that went from 48.2% to 53.4%. Nonetheless, according to a report in Hoy, manufacturing sector leaders say that persisting restrictions are affecting production and business. …

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“Right now eggs are expensive, because over the last two weeks they went up by about RD$800 per thousand. A hundred eggs are now selling for RD$450 the large size and the mediums go for RD$430, which is to say the unit will be reaching the consumer at six pesos,” stated Carlos Mercedes, the secretary …

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Thousands of former sugarcane workers, some of whom had spent 50 years in the cane fields, assembled outside Presidential Palace in Santo Domingo yesterday, Wednesday 5 March to ask President Danilo Medina to emit a third decree for a pension increase to at least RD$10,000 per month. Group representatives told reporters from El Nuevo Diario …

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A Haitian immigrant who sued the country before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights used forged documents to register the birth of three people and to vote in the last five elections, says the Central Electoral Board. On Tuesday, 4 March the Central Electoral Board (JCE) accused him of using false documents to establish his …

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