2015 – Page 232

The National Salary Committee (CNS) has invited unions and management sector representatives to a meeting on Wednesday, 13 May 2015 to continue discussing ideas for the minimum wage for the workers in the non-sectored private sector. National Salary Committee chairman Felix Hidalgo said that the meeting would take place at the Ministry of Labor at …

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In a second reading yesterday, Wednesday 29 April 2015, the Senate approved a legislative proposal to transform the National Housing Development and Production Bank (BNV) into a new entity called the National Export Bank (Bandex), as reported in El Nuevo Diario. The legislation proposes transforming the current BNV into an entity specialized in financing exporting …

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The United States Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) has lifted the ban on the Hass variety of avocados and varieties of green tomatoes exported from the Dominican Republic as it does not consider them to be hosts of Medfly. APHIS says that the export of Hass avocadoes will be conditional on being commercially …

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Dust coming from the Sahara desert will keep the weather uncomfortably hot, with dry air flowing over the country. Temperatures will remain high, according to National Meteorological Office (Onamet) forecast. Conditions are compounded by the high-pressure system in the Caribbean that prevents the little humidity there is from rising and forming clouds that could bring …

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The dry spell affecting the Dominican Republic is keeping the water levels in the dams below their ideal mark, putting farm production, energy generation and water services for human consumption at risk. National Hydraulic Resources Institute (INDRHI) director Olgo Fernandez says that the drought has lasted for 16 weeks and is most severe in the …

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The possibility of resolving the internal crisis over differences over changing the 2010 Constitution to reinstate consecutive re-election affecting the ruling Dominican Liberation Party (PLD) could come from a meeting between President Danilo Medina and former President Leonel Fernandez. Fifteen PLD Senators who are opposed to the Political Committee decision in favor of preparing a …

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The conjoined twins born at the Jose Maria Cabral y Baez Regional University Hospital in Santiago on Tuesday, 28 April 2015 are in a stable condition. The baby girls, who are joined at the thorax and the abdomen, are now at the Arturo Grullon Children’s Hospital. A hospital spokesman said that the babies could be …

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The Specialized Prosecutor for the Persecution of Administrative Corruption (PEPCA) has submitted a formal indictment and requested the opening of a trial against the Mayor of Las Terrenas, Jose Mercedes Martinez Emeterio. The defendants are accused of misappropriation of funds worth more than RD$20 million. Former treasurer Willis Alberto Vilorio Sarante and the mayor’s wife …

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Earlier this week, the nation was able to witness the consequences of the government’s lenience towards vandalism by the bus transport monopoly in the city. A school hired a bus service to take children on an outing to the National Book Fair. Two bus unions that had not been hired for the excursion tried to …

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The Ministry of Culture presents the National Contemporary Dance at Palacio de Bellas Artes. “Inhabitable”, with choreography by Karol Marenco from Costa Rica and works by Dayme del Toro, Evelyn Tejeda, Patricia Ortega and Rafael Morla and directed by Marianela Boan will be performed on 9-10 May 2015 at 8:30pm, and on 11 May at …

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