2014 – Page 294

President Danilo Medina flew to Tegucigalpa, Honduras on Sunday afternoon, 26 January to attend today’s inaugural ceremony for Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez Alvarado. He will then travel on to the Cuban capital Havana for the Second Summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) tomorrow Tuesday 28 and Wednesday 29 January. …

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President Danilo Medina and First Lady Candida Montilla spent Sunday, 26 January participating events honoring founding father Juan Pablo Duarte. They included a Te Deum at the Santo Domingo Cathedral. At the event, Cardinal Nicolas Lopez Rodriguez lauded Duarte as “the greatest Dominican in history,” who despite being betrayed on many occasions never gave up …

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To comply with the law that calls for the government to spend 4% of GDP on education, the Ministry of Education disbursed RD$21 billion in December, as reported in Diario Libre. The newspaper said that as of 10 December, the government had allocated RD$74.2 billion to the Ministry, but by 31 December, the Ministry reported …

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A police private now officially makes RD$7,000 a month, after a RD$883.29 or 14.4% wage increase on top of the previous RD$6,117 wage. But new police recruits will be making less. The wage increases in the police were gradually greater according to rank to reach 30% for the high-ranking second lieutenants. The police brigade generals …

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Legal expert Luis Manuel Vilchez Bournigal analyzes the constitutional principle of “favorability” now that many are invoking it in their demands for Dominican citizenship for undocumented individuals in the DR. The discussions have followed the emission of Constitutional Court Ruling 168-13 that ordered the implementation of the Foreigner Legalization Plan for documenting people living in …

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The Ministry of Culture, with the sponsorship of the Fundacion Corripio, has chosen PRD politician and poet Tony Raful for the National Literature Award 2014. The members of the jury were UASD rector Mateo Aquino Febrillet, UNPHU rector Miguel Fiallo Calderon, INTEC rector Rolando M. Guzman, UCSD rector Jesus Castro Marte, Carmen Perez Valerio from …

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The president of the ruling PLD party, former President Leonel Fernandez swore in the new Central Committee of the PLD yesterday, Sunday 26 January, including the new 168 members who were chosen by voting party members last week. Speaking at the ceremony, Fernandez stressed that as of now in the PLD there are no longer …

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At the PRSC 9th Ordinary Assembly, which took place yesterday, Sunday 26 January, the party members elected engineer Federico Antun Batlle as their president. His two rival candidates, Amable Aristy Castro and Jose Hazim Frappier chose not to run. Other members of the new PRSC leadership are first vice president Louis Bogaert, general secretary Ramon …

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The Spanish Air Force Airbus A-310 in which Prince Felipe was scheduled to fly to Honduras made a technical stop in Santo Domingo on Sunday, 26 January, but had to return due to mechanical problems. As reported, the plane is serviced by Airbus. The Prince was due to meet with President Porfirio Lobo of Honduras …

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A British boarding school is reportedly willing to admit runaway teenagers 16-year old Indira Gainiyeva and 16-year old Edward Bunyan, after their school, Stonyhurst College said it would not take them back, UK media reports. The teenagers left the school without permission on 13 January. An online newspaper report from Kazakhstan, nevertheless, says that at …

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