2015 – Page 250

Dominican Agronomists’ Association (AIDA) president Cesar Matos says that the authorities have been concealing the presence of a new pest from the public. He said the pest is affecting more than 150 varieties of fruit and vegetables in the country. During an interview on the Toque Final TV program on Channel 7, Antena Latina, he …

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Diario Libre’s editorial on Monday, 13 April 2015 highlights that party unity is the only platform on which the ruling PLD party pre-candidates are running. They are not candidates for material progress of the nation, or economic development, but for party unity, comments the back page editorial writer. The editorialist speculates that the new focus …

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The president of the PRM, a breakaway faction of the PRD, Andres Bautista has told El Dia that the judiciary’s problems stem from the decision to appoint judges with political inclinations made by the National Magistrates Council during the Leonel Fernandez government in 2011, which he says has resulted in an untrustworthy justice system. He …

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Seven thousand Dominicans have signed an online petition addressed to the rector of APEC for Supreme Court Judge Alejandro Moscoso Segarra to be fired from his post as dean of the university’s law school. Representatives of the civil society group New Democracy delivered the document to rector Radhames Mejia yesterday, Monday 13 April 2014. In …

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Doctors at the three public hospitals in the province of Valverde (Mao) in the north west of the country went on strike yesterday, Monday 13 April 2013 with a long list of demands from surgeons, anesthetists, orthopedic doctors and interns. The Dominican Medical Association (CMD) is organizing the strike. According to provincial president Pedro Nicasio, …

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Yesterday, Monday 13 April 2015, the northwestern town of Navarrete was the scene of a series of protests called by the Popular Front and other organizations campaigning against corruption. The strike was called for 48 hours and businesses, schools and transport are all closed down in protest against the judges who ruled in favor of …

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The National Drug Control Agency (DNCD) has confiscated a drug shipment hidden in 1,248 packages weighing 1kg each at the Caucedo Multimodal Port. Colonel Braulio de la Rosa of the DNCD Center for Information and Joint Coordination (CICC) said that the cargo has an estimated street value of EUR70 million, or around RD$12 billion. The …

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The police announced yesterday, Monday 13 April 2015, that they had found the body of 64-year old journalist Blas Olivo, who was reported missing by his family on Sunday. Olivo had attended a family event in Bonao that day and had left to return to Santo Domingo, but had said he would be back to …

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Yesterday, Monday 13 April 2015, a German engineer was attacked and shot in the parking lot outside La Sirena store on the Malecon seafront avenue in Puerto Plata. News reports indicate that he died of his wounds. Heinz Peter Rehm was on his way to one of the banks in the mall when he was …

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A Chilean soldier with the United Nations Minustah peacekeeping force in Haiti was shot dead yesterday, Monday 13 April 2015 on the border. Rodrigo Andres Sanhueza Soto was in a vehicle at the Ouanaminthe-Dajabon border crossing point with his United Nations peacekeeping unit when a group of Haitian protestors opened fire and seized Sanhueza’s gun …

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