2014 – Page 30

Foreign Minister Andres Navarro says it is time for regional bodies like the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and Commission of Human Rights to be revised. He commented that times have changed and that both these entities were created when dictatorships prevailed in Latin America. Speaking on the D’Agenda TV show with Hector Herrera Cabral, …

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The government has contracted 426 small and medium-sized suppliers for lunch at public schools that have adopted the extended school day, as reported in El Caribe. National Institute of Student Welfare (Instituto Nacional de Bienestar Estudiantil) director Rene Jaquez says that in this school year they have delivered more than 661,000 food servings to these …

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Dispatchers have sent out 911 units to respond to 200,000 emergencies in the Greater Santo Domingo area since its start six months ago. The pilot program has been praised in both the DR and abroad. There are now plans to extend it to Santiago. As of January 2015, residents in Greater Santo Domingo will also …

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The rector of the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo (UASD) has told Diario Libre that the university’s greatest challenge is to introduce more short technical courses. Students with low grades would be encouraged to take this option. The courses would include careers in health, such as dieticians, radiology technicians and nursing aides, as well as …

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The Metropolitan Transport Authority (AMET) has announced the end of Road Safety Week during which more than 60,000 people were stopped for violating traffic laws. Instead of getting a fine they were given the opportunity to listen to the agents explain the laws that were broken. Last week, more than 20,000 flyers were distributed to …

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The president of the Association of Industries of Herrera and the Province of Santo Domingo (AEIH) Victor Castro has described the 167% yield obtained by pension plan administrators (AFPs) as of September 2014 as shameful and tantamount to robbery. Castro said no legal company in the DR has such high profits, and it is genuine …

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A bill for domain extinction submitted by senators Adriano Sanchez Roa, Julio Cesar Valentin and Charlie Mariotti is currently under study in the Senate. The bill is known by its name in Spanish “Proyecto de Ley sobre Juicios de Extincion de Dominio para el Decomiso Civil de Bienes Ilicitos.” A court order would be required …

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Attorney General Francisco Dominguez Brito and special prosecutor for administrative corruption Laura Guerrero Pelletier are warning property title registrars in the National District and Santiago to hold back from implementing an order issued by special judge of instruction of the Supreme Court of Justice Frank Soto to lift the restraints for sale on 35 properties …

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A report in El Dia today, Monday 24 November 2014, focuses on the good life drug traffickers can continue to enjoy after returning to the Dominican Republic following deportation from the US where their cases were heard. El Dia reports that the people who had risked their lives to ensure the arrest of the criminals …

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The Senate of the Dominican Republic has a payroll of 1,660 including the 32 senators. They earn RD$24.5 million in taxpayer money every month, as reported in Diario Libre. Of the total, the 32 senators receive monthly checks for RD$2,822,500. Support staff makes the rest. The ruling PLD party holds all of the senator seats …

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