2014 – Page 73

The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has recognized that the Dominican Republic has reached level C of the First Millennium Development Goal, a year ahead of schedule. The goal was to reduce the number of people going hungry by half between 1990 and 2015 as part of the first goal, which is to …

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The national budget bill was handed over to Senate president Cristina Lizardo yesterday, Monday 29 September 2014, and Simon Lizardo, Treasury Minister, read out a letter from President Danilo Medina that accompanied the request for RD$630.93 billion. The President wrote that the budget was calculated taking into account five fundamental issues: responsible management of public …

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The Executive Branch via the Ministry of Hacienda sent to the Senate a bill for placement of bonds for RD$110.8 billion. The bill authorizes the Ministry of Hacienda to issue the public debt bonds for RD$110.8 billion or their equivalent in US dollars. The funds will be included in the 2015 National Budget. The explanation …

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The Ministry of Interior and Police has announced that they have carried out the biometric registration of 68,814 foreigners in the country in the first 119 days of the operation of the National Foreigner Legalization Plan that began in June this year. According to the Deputy Minister of Interior and Police, Washington Gonzalez, around 90% …

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A Workshop or Technical Working Group (TWG) for the Control of the Illicit Traffic in Handguns and Light Weapons in the Caribbean, which took place in the Bahamas on 24 and 25 September has congratulated the Dominican Republic for its good practice in recording firearms and setting up the Ballistic and Biometric Fingerprint laboratory. The …

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Corporate empowerment at the expense of a sustainable planet was a main theme for protestors on the occasion of the 69th General Assembly of the United Nations held over the last week in New York City. An article in The Huffington Post presents several cases in the Dominican Republic where big business is using the …

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Dominican Teachers Association (ADP) members in Santiago went on a 24-hour strike yesterday, Monday 29 September 2014, affecting classes in several schools. Students were sent home due to the strike. Teachers’ representatives said that they were on strike because some teachers had had their salaries cut for no justifiable reason, while others had not been …

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In a survey of online readers of El Nacional Digital, 58% disagreed that the Constitution should be changed to allow for consecutive Presidential re-election, while 42% were in agreement. A large number of current PLD members believe that it should be changed to allow Danilo Medina to run again, reflecting his exceptionally high popularity that …

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From Wednesday, 1 October 2014, the United States federal government will open the 2016 Visa Lottery, which is totally free and will hand over 50,000 legal permanent residencies to immigrants via the Visa Diversity Program. However, Dominicans, along with some other nationalities, will not be allowed to take part. The other countries that have been …

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