2015 – Page 277

Political analyst Rosario Espinal says that the best thing for President Danilo Medina is to be different and to refrain from changing the Constitution to run for President in 2016. To do so, furthermore, he would need the support of legislators who back him and others who are known to be supporters of former President …

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The foreign ministers of Haiti and the Dominican Republic, Pierre Duly Brutus and Andres Navarro are meeting at 10:30am today, Friday 13 March 2015 in the border town of Jimani in the south western Dominican Republic. They will discuss the reopening of the five Dominican consulates in Haiti that were shut down for security reasons …

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Minister of Foreign Relations Andres Navarro and Central Electoral Board (JCE) president Roberto Rosario signed an agreement yesterday, Thursday 12 March 2015, to establish mechanisms for new services at consulates and embassies abroad. Dominicans living overseas will be able to request their ID (cedula) as well as applying for civil registry documents and passports abroad. …

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Angel Segura, director of mobile transport for the National District (Santo Domingo) city council is recommending the introduction of bus routes to transport students to the 99 city center schools. He said this would save every parent from having to take their children to school in a single vehicle. Segura says that no matter how …

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A recent report by the World Bank advises the Dominican Republic to improve the quality of its farm produce exports, strengthen its duty free manufacturing export sector and open new markets. The World Bank says the country has diversified its export products, moving from being mainly based on apparel exports to include medical apparatus, footwear, …

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The World Bank is funding a comprehensive social protection package to help reduce extreme poverty in the country’s poorest provinces. This is a variable-margin US$75 million loan, with a 34-year maturity period and a five-year grace period. The loan will help poor people to access the National Health Insurance plan (Senasa) and will provide education …

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Central Bank Governor Hector Valdez has warned that some banks have been engaging in irregularities by penalizing consumers with illegal charges and commissions. He said the charges were the banks’ way of compensating for a RD$5 million decline due to the reduction in interest rates on credit card financing. In October 2013, government authorities and …

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Despite opposition from Energy Minister Pelegrin Castillo, who is recommending that the country’s next natural gas plant should be installed on the north coast, investors in the Antillean Gas plant say the project is well advanced. Engineering designs for its installation in southeastern San Pedro de Macoris have concluded, said Juan B. Vicini, chief executive …

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Getting in shape is becoming more and more popular among Santo Domingo residents. Neighborhood gyms are commonplace, and the newest is Brazilian gym franchise, SmartFit, which opened this week at the Bravo supermarket Ave. Churchill branch offering deals of RD$995 a month. SmartFit is described as the largest gym chain in Latin America with 200 …

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Red Cross volunteers Maria Santana and Jose Miguel Soto, working with the 911 Emergency Line, helped Paola Yocasta Calvo Feliz give birth to a baby girl, Danyi Paola on board an ambulance yesterday, Thursday 12 March 2015. The unit had picked up the mother and was taking her from her home in Los Mina to …

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