2015 – Page 266

Former President Leonel Fernandez has reiterated his opinion that the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) exceeded its attributions by trying to impose obligations on the Dominican state that are not covered by International Law, as reported in El Nuevo Diario. Fernandez added that the Dominican Republic was not obliged to obey this sentence, as …

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After six months without holding any meetings and amidst a difficult internal situation, the PLD Political Committee convenes this evening, Thursday 26 March 2015, in what is likely to be a thorny meeting. According to reports, the committee members have agreed not to touch upon the issue of the presidential re-election, the hottest topic on …

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The Superior Land Tribunal has rejected a series of motions that sought to postpone the hearing of the appeals against the sentence that has declared the land titles granted in favor of individuals on thousands of square meters of land in the protected area of Bahia de las Aguilas to be null and void and …

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Yesterday, Wednesday 25 March 2015, Judge Mary Perez of the Third Court of Instruction of the Province of Santo Domingo ordered the Venezuelan pilots accused of attempting to fly the jet belonging to fugitive Venezuelan bank president Jose Luis Santoro to be released without charges. The judge decided not to press charges against the pilots, …

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The Dominican Republic’s national basketball team will be playing in Group A during the FIBA Americas Championship set for 25 August to 6 September 2015 in Monterrey, Mexico. The other group members will be Brazil, Panama, Uruguay and Mexico. Group B is made up of Canada, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Argentina and Venezuela. The event is …

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Actor Waddys Jaquez is performing at the Centro Cultural Espanol in Santo Domingo’s Colonial City at 8pm tomorrow evening, Friday, 27 March 2015. He will be acting in Latino Suitcase as part of the Spanish government cultural center’s special program marking the celebrations of World Theater Day on 27 March. To read more news, see …

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President Danilo Medina was in Barahona yesterday, Tuesday 24 March 2015 for the opening of the Juan Pablo Duarte Kindergarten and the Professor Jesus Maria Segura Segura School in El Penon, in the southwestern province. The kindergarten will take 226 children and cost RD$35,609,241 to build. The school has 13 classrooms and was built at …

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Preparations are in full swing for launching the very successful 911 Emergency Service in Santiago. Minister of the Presidency Gustavo Montalvo was in the country’s second-largest city yesterday, Tuesday 24 March 2015 to meet with local authorities and business leaders to discuss the start of the service this summer. In Greater Santo Domingo it has …

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According to the Public Electricity Corporation (CDEEE) Distribution and Loss Reduction director, Radhames Del Carmen, around half of the circuits operated by the electricity distribution companies are now registering technical and commercial losses of less than 10% of the energy produced. He went on to say that losses less than 20% take place in 252 …

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The Chamber of Deputies approved a proposal yesterday, Tuesday 24 March 2015, to change law 87-01 that created the Dominican Social Security System, in order to reduce the profit made by the Pension Funds Administrators (AFP). The new ruling means that the profit for operators of the pension plan funds is reduced from 30 to …

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