2014 – Page 68

A nurse who treated a patient repatriated to Madrid from Sierra Leone has tested positive for Ebola, new reports revealed yesterday, Monday 6 October 2014. The nurse is thought to be the first person to have contracted the virus outside West Africa. There are several direct flights a day from Madrid to the Dominican Republic. …

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Cornell University students will be getting real world experience by traveling to the Dominican Republic as part of a pledge by billionaire David Einhorn for US$50 million to the Cornell program. Cornell University announced on Monday, 6 October 2014 that its new Engaged Cornell initiative will be launched with a US$50 million gift that will …

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National Police Chief Major General Manuel Castro Castillo says that so far this year, 130 police agents have been seriously injured and another 91 killed by criminals. He said that they were continuing their fight against crime but many agents were being killed or seriously wounded in the process. However, around 126,000 suspected criminals had …

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Dominican Republic equestrian rider Maria Gabriela Brugal has won the silver medal in the FEI World Jumping Challenge Final 2014 held on the outskirts of Johannesburg, South Africa over the weekend of 4-5 October 2014. Charley Crockart from Zimbabwe won the event, while Rainer Korber of South Africa won the bronze. As reported in Horse …

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President Danilo Medina was in the southwest on Sunday, 5 October 2014 where he visited rabbit and goat farmers in Mena Arriba, Mena Abajo and Los Robles in Bahoruco province. He met with members of the Farm Producers’ Association of La Buena Fe (Asoproabfe), which rears rabbits and later with goat farmers in Los Robles, …

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Minister of Energy and Mines Pelegrin Castillo has called for the rational development of mining resources in the country. Speaking at a luncheon organized by the Roundtable of Commonwealth Countries in the Dominican Republic on Friday 3 October 2014, Castillo said that there was no doubt that mining needed to be one of the strongest …

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Dominican Telecom Institute (Indotel) president Gedeon Santos has told Diario Libre that the government wants telecommunication companies to increase their investments in quality of service, which has declined significantly in recent years. Santos says the government wants the country to return to the quality of the telecom services in 1990s, when Dominicans could proudly say …

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The Medina government is complying with the law that requires the government to spend 4% of GDP on pre-university education, but Diario Libre points out today, Monday 6 October 2014, that the time has come to change the laws that peg budgetary allocations to percentage of GDP. As reported, Congress pegged the state university allocation …

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The Medina administration will need to pass foreign loans worth RD$44.4 billion in 2015 to finance government works proposed for 2015. The public works include: Thermoelectric power plant/CDEEE: US$650 million Rehabilitation of Power Distribution Lines/CDEEE: US$120 million with the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) Ozama River Wastewater Station/CAASD for EUR55.7 million Farming Research …

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