2014 – Page 262

To help provide a better understanding of major public works and government programs in the Dominican Republic, the DR1 news team has translated the televised video of President Danilo Medina’s state of the nation address to the National Assembly on Thursday 27 February. The speech is long but comprehensive. President Medina spoke for one hour …

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President Danilo Medina was in Laguneta, Hato Nuevo in the northwestern province of Valverde, municipality of Mao yesterday, Sunday 2 March. He met with members of the landless farmers association who will now receive a loan at 5% annual interest with a six-month grace period. The farmers want to purchase 600 hares and build the …

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The farm sector is highlighted as one of the major successes of President Medina’s year-and-a-half-long administration. On Saturday, 1 March a group of former agriculture ministers under the PRD and the PRSC offered their support to President Medina for his work to stimulate the farming sector. The meeting took place in Villa Mella where President …

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The Central Electoral Board (JCE) reopened its offices at the Dominican consulate in New York City last week. The JCE says it will also be reopening the offices located in Boston, Massachusetts and Miami, Florida.

The Dominican Republic and Haiti had programmed bilateral talks to be held on the first Monday of the month. Nevertheless, the date of the March talks has not been announced. Instead, the Ministry of Foreign Relations of Haiti, as reported in Haiti Libre online, in a written statement on 27 February has complained that President …

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The Herrera Industrial Association is protesting at the government spending RD$34 million (not including perks) on the president and four members of the National Competitiveness Commission. In a written statement, Victor Castro of AEIH said that the president of Pro-Competencia, Michelle Cohen is paid RD$500,000 a month to make announcements of what they will do, …

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In his state of the nation address on Thursday, 27 February, President Danilo Medina mentioned the Stratfor Global Intelligence Report. The mentioned report is titled The PC16: Identifying China’s Successors that includes the Dominican Republic among the countries that are set to benefit from the flow of manufacturing contract work that is leaving Continental China, …

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By November 2013, the Dominican Republic’s non-financial public debt had increased by US$3.34 billion compared to the previous year. The total non-financial public debt is estimated to be US$22.58 billion, or 37.5% of the Gross Domestic Product, as reported in Diario Libre.

The director of the Center for Export and Investment of the Dominican Republic (CEI-RD) Jean Alain Rodriguez says that 12% of the country’s exports are based on technological products such as medical apparatus manufactured in free zones. He said that this high percentage is proof that we are not only farm product exporters. He said …

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Several flights to the Dominican Republic are suffering delays and cancellations as the US is being hit by extreme winter weather yet again. Forecasters are expecting heavy snow by the end of today, Monday 3 March in Washington and the Mid-Atlantic Region, brought by winter storm Titan. News reports say that the worst affected airports …

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