2014 – Page 91

The new director of the National Salaries Committee, Felix Hidalgo Polanco says that he will be holding his first meeting with other members of the government-employers-labor representatives this week to evaluate requests for a salary increase. The labor representatives are asking for a 30% across-the-board increase in wages, both for the public and private sector. …

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Applicants for status regularization under the National Foreigner Legalization Plan must submit legal documentation from at least one parent to benefit from the expedited legalization plan. El Dia writes that the requirement is included because otherwise the applicant could claim being stateless. Gobierno exige documentos de padres para Plan Regularización http://mip.gob.do/PlanNacionaldeRegulaci%F3ndeExtranjeros/tabid/418/Default.aspx

The Minister of Interior and Police, Jose Ramon Fadul and the commander of the Dominican Army, Major General Jose Eugenio Matos de la Cruz, held a meeting yesterday, Tuesday 9 September 2014, to analyze the security in the country as protests are being held by political and social groups calling for Loma Miranda to be …

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Around 10,245 suspected chikungunya cases have been treated at the Luis Eduardo Aybar hospital from the end of April to date, but numbers are reported to have tailed off considerably over the last few days. According to hospital statistics 2,262 people were suspected of contracting the virus in May. June was the highest month with …

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The Supreme Court of Justice has ordered the builders of the Torre de Plata located next door to the Dominican Fiesta hotel in Santo Domingo to demolish the building. The decision puts an end to a six-year long legal battle between the promoters and the neighborhood association. The Los Cacicazgos neighborhood association set a precedent …

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The Central Electoral Board (JCE) has approved a request to change the name of the Dominican Social Alliance Party (ASD) to the Modern Revolutionary Party (PRM) as well as its use of the slogan “Democracy, Development and Equality”. The JCE also approved the party symbol: two purple circles with the name inside a blue circle …

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A group representing farmers is proposing to introduce the concepts of “ancestral” or “peasant” seeds and vegetable matter so they can preserve what they consider to be their traditional patrimony. A new Bill on Seeds is being debated in the Chamber of Deputies and the National Farmers’ Movement submitted proposals on Monday, 8 September in …

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In his editorial today, Wednesday 10 September 2014, the executive editor of Diario Libre Adriano Miguel Tejada describes the so-called Parsley Massacre as “a myth”. When blasting Dominicans for their treatment of Haitian immigrants many publications and media refer to the El Corte (the cutting), the government-sponsored genocide of October 1937 during the Trujillo regime. …

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A US citizen was murdered in his apartment in Boca Chica in the early hours of Tuesday 9 September 2014. The police said that the murder took place at around 3am and that two people have been arrested, including a Haitian prostitute who police say was with the victim before he died. The deceased was …

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A display of 100 rare amber pieces with insects and parts of plants trapped in the resin millions of years ago is on show in Santo Domingo. The exhibition is being held at the Amber Museum on Calle Isabel la Catolica 452 corner Calle Restauracion in the Colonial City. The exhibition opens this evening, Wednesday, …

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