2015 – Page 245

National AIDS council (Conavihsida) director Victor Terrero announced the start of the implementation of the National Strategic Plan for Combating Sexually-Transmitted Diseases (STDs), HIV and AIDS 2015-2018 in the presence of President Danilo Medina, Vice President Margarita Cedeno and First Lady Candida Montilla. Terrero announced that the Global Fund to Fight AIDS would be providing …

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During a talk on the New Dominican Foreign Policy at the Dominican Republic Association of Industries yesterday, Thursday 16 April 2015, Minister of Foreign Relations Andres Navarro said that the government does not plan to sign any new free trade agreements. Canada, Colombia and Cuba have expressed an interest in free trade agreements with the …

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Truckers arriving in Dajabon en route to Haiti yesterday Thursday, 16 April 2015 decided not to cross the border after rebel groups there resumed protests against President Michel Martelly’s government. Reports were received of unrest in Ouanaminthe, Gilea and Fort Liberte. Geovanny Escoto, general secretary of the Fenatrado truckers union, said that 20-30 trucks laden …

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Speaking at a breakfast meeting on New Dominican Foreign Policy with members of the Dominican Republic Industries Association yesterday, Thursday 16 April 2015, Minister of Foreign Relations Andres Navarro announced plans for a meeting with the head of the United Nations peacekeeping force in Haiti (Minustah), Sandra Honore, to discuss the safety of Dominican truckers …

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Minister of Foreign Relations Andres Navarro says that there will not be mass deportations of people who do not have legal status in the DR after the National Foreigner Legalization Plan expires on 15 June 2015. Outlining the guidelines behind the New Dominican Republic Foreign Policy at a breakfast meeting of the Dominican Republic Association …

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Attorney General Office children’s coordinator Marisol Tobal says that 40 children were rescued from begging on the city streets in Santo Domingo yesterday, Thursday 16 April 2015. Children were picked up from several avenues, including Maximo Gomez, Nunez de Caceres with 27 de Febrero, Romulo Betancourt, Winston Churchill and Independencia. A total of 40 boys …

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The Constitutional Court annulled a disposition that obliged a divorced woman to wait for 10 months before remarrying, while divorced men could marry at any time. The Court annulled Art. 35 of the Divorce Law that established that a divorced woman could not marry until 10 months after the divorce decree was definitive, unless doing …

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Minister of Tourism Francisco Javier Garcia says that the PLD’s 35-member Political Committee needs to reach a decision during its Sunday, 19 April 2015 meeting. In an interview with El Caribe, he said the issue is dividing the party. According to his analysis, while running again does not suit Medina personally or the PLD party, …

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The ruling PLD party Political Committee is meeting in Juan Dolio this Sunday, 19 April 2015. Observers are skeptical that the two party leaders, President Danilo Medina and three-time former President Leonel Fernandez, who is the president of the PLD, will reach an agreement on who will be the PLD candidate in the May 2016 …

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Domingo Contreras, who aspires to be the next mayor of Santo Domingo, is calling for the promotion of a culture of legality that he says needs to start with the Executive Branch. At present, Contreras is advisor to the Executive Branch on Solid Waste, after many years as secretary general at the National District city …

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