2015 – Page 22

Pengbian Sang’s Retro Jazz with their repertoire of jazz, bossa, latin jazz and funk, and Esencia Bonye will take the stage for the Dominican Republic, and Dominican DJs Marc Da Mosh + Chacha, Dav Motta, Joseant Hidalgo and Lash during the Electric Paradise Festival in Juanillo, Cap Cana in the Punta Cana area. They join …

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The Central Electoral Board (JCE) has announced the opening of a civil registry office at the Ministry of Foreign Relations located on Av. Independencia in Santo Domingo. The office will issue IDs and birth certificates to the beneficiaries of Constitutional Tribunal ruling 168-13 and Law 169-14 on Naturalization. JCE president Roberto Rosario said the aim …

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The Banco de Reservas trust, which is funded by the takings of all the highway tolls in the country except for the privatized Samana highway (Juan Pablo II) has contributed to the construction of 13 roadworks, including bypasses, underpasses and road repairs, since its creation in late 2013. As reported in Hoy, the department under …

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The Center for Diagnostics and Advanced Medicine and Medical Conferences and Telemedicine (Cedimat) has received certification for having fulfilled Accreditation Council Canada’s first accreditation cycle. The announcement represents a major boost for medical tourism in the country. Cedimat becomes the first medical center in the country and only the third in Latin America – after …

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The Foundation for Institutionalism and Justice (Finjus) says that the country is facing an imminent collapse of the judiciary, as several questionable decisions by judges have made it evident that something is very rotten in the system. However, in an interview with El Dia, the president of the Supreme Court of Justice, Mariano German called …

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In an interview with Participacion Ciudadana representative, lawyer Francisco Alvarez Castellanos, suspended judge Awilda Reyes confirmed she had kept the money given to her for the ruling in favor of releasing Pedro Brand Councilor Ericson de los Santos. Hoy publishes the conversation that took place with Alvarez Castellanos on 2 November 2015 where she reveals …

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A report in El Caribe focuses on the way that the Medina administration has created 12 new government departments with budget allocations of more than RD$4 billion in the 2016 National Budget. Just five n the Public Defender, 911 Emergency System, Ministry of Energy and Mines, Banca Solidaria (allocated RD$500 million for financing micro and …

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In a press release from the Association for the Promotion of Renewable Energy Companies (Asofer), its president Karina Chez observes that while President Danilo Medina signed the country up as a founding member of the Solar Energy Alliance as part of the Climate Conference in Paris that he attended in early December 2015, on the …

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In an analysis of the Constitutional Tribunal’s decision to revoke the Penal Code that was passed a year ago, commentator Juan Bolivar Diaz says this action is just a new confirmation of the institutional chaos that prevails in the country with the focus on the Judicial Branch that is subordinate to a circumstantial and political …

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The Constitutional Tribunal has ruled against the suspension of a court order for the demolition of the Torre de Plata in the Los Cacicazgos neighborhood in Santo Domingo, which was deemed an illegal construction. The high-rise apartment block was built next to the Dominican Fiesta Hotel but was contested from the start by the Los …

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