2014 – Page 59

Senator Felix Bautista has become the first major PLD figure to be the subject of an investigation by the Justice Department for possible acts of corruption and asset laundering. These actions have also included the legal restraint advisory on hundreds of assets that the Attorney General has identified as the senator’s property and said to …

Read more…

The interim judge of the Fourth Court of Instruction of the National District, Leomar Cruz Quezada says that the actions of the District Attorney of the National District against the former minister of Public Works, Victor Diaz Rua, violated his right to a defense and due process. Diaz Rua was minister of Public Works during …

Read more…

President Danilo Medina has called a meeting between the Economic, Social and Institutional Council (CESI), government and civil society institutions and other stakeholders to prepare the scenario for the discussion and drafting of the National Pact for Electricity Sector Reform. Art. 35 in the National Development Strategy Law 1-12 (ENDI) ordered the Electricity Pact to …

Read more…

The new director of the Robert Reid Cabral Children’s Public Hospital, Dr. Jose Miguel Ferreras has assured that he has no plans to penalize anyone. He said he wants to work together with the staff to solve the problems affecting the hospital. Yesterday morning, Tuesday 14 October 2014, he held his first meeting with the …

Read more…

New Minister of Public Health Altagracia Guzman Marcelino reports that debt carried by the Ministry is at RD$7 billion. A source told Diario Libre that the commitments include arrears with public hospitals, medicines and suppliers. When her predecessor, Freddy Hidalgo Nunez took over in 2012 a debt of more than RD$1 billion was left by …

Read more…

Doctor Reyson Pavon has been appointed director of the Vinicio Calventi Public Hospital in Los Alcarrizos, replacing Alberto Diaz. Diaz resigned following a series of complaints about the bad administration of the hospital, culminating with a strike by surgeons on Monday, 13 October 2014. Doctor Reyson Pavon is an Air Force doctor. Nombran nuevo director …

Read more…

The Supreme Court of Justice has postponed the hearing whereby Senator Felix Bautista will oppose the legal notification affecting property in the Rofi corporation until 21 October belonging to the property group, Rofi, until 21 October 2014. Supreme Court judge Frank Soto made the decision following a request from the National Lawyers Association (CONA), the …

Read more…