2015 – Page 262

The Higher Administrative Court (TSA) has ordered Liceo Experimental Altagracia Amelia Ricart Calventi and its principal Joselin Fructuoso to allow a student to wear a skirt while a discrimination case that her parents have levied against the school is being heard. The school uniform is shirts and pants for boys and girls alike. Judges Federico …

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A new report by international insurance company, FM Global, ranks the world’s most resilient countries down to the riskiest and most vulnerable to war, natural disaster or economic crisis. FM Global specializes in commercial property insurance. Venezuela was highlighted as the highest-risk country due to its high inflation, massive public debt and malfunctioning markets even …

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National Drug Control Agency (DNCD) agents have confiscated just over 30 kilos of a substance believed to be cocaine or heroin and arrested three people accused of belonging to a drug dealing network that used the cover of being an exporter of high-quality furniture to the United States. During an operation over the weekend of …

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The National Meteorological Office (ONAMET) is forecasting light rainfall across much of the country due to a frontal system currently located over Haiti. The rains are expected to have passed before the peak vacation days of Friday 3, Saturday 4 and Sunday 5 April. They said that the front is moving from the east south …

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In the presence of President Danilo Medina, a series of events will be held in Santiago today, Monday 30 March 2015, commemorating the 171st anniversary of the Battle of 30 March 1844. The ceremonies begin at 8am, with the raising of the national and municipal flags in the Imbert Park on the avenue of the …

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Officially, 2014 closed with a fiscal deficit of RD$70.484 billion, or 90.7% of the amount estimated at the beginning of the year (RD$77.70 9 billion) and 109.7% of the amount resulting from the modification of the budget approved by the national Congress on 9 December 2014. According to the report on the State of Collections …

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The sentence in which the judge of Special Instruction, Alejandro Moscoso Segarra, granted the decision of “No Ha Lugar” (petition denied) in favor of the Senator for San Juan de la Maguana, Felix Bautista and another six defendants for alleged money laundering and corruption, can be appealed in two ways. In the first place, an …

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The Minister of Industry and Commerce, Jose del Castillo Savinon, has admitted that the ban on exports of certain fruits and vegetables to the United States market will have a negative impact on the producers of these food items. The ban was imposed after Mediterranean fruit fly (medfly) was detected in the country. The Minister …

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Only 2,000 of an estimated 300,000 people have been registered in the Program for the Identification and Documentation of Haitian Immigrants (PIDIH) in the Dominican Republic as of March, according to the Refugees and Repatriated Persons Support Group (GARR) a Haitian NGO. Listin Diario reports that the program, which began in July 2014, is aimed …

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The Santo Domingo Water and Sewer Corporation of (CAASD) has launched a cleanup of several creeks and streams that flow into the Isabela and Ozama rivers as part of a major plan by the Presidential Commission for the Sustainable Preservation of the two rivers. According to El Nuevo Diario, CAASD director Alejandro Montas said that …

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