2015 – Page 298

The National Botanical Gardens and the Dominican Society of Orchid Growers are inviting flower lovers to the 33rd Orchid Contest in the Dominican Republic and the exhibition at the Santo Domingo Botanical Gardens in 12-15 March 2015. On Saturday 14 and Sunday, 15 March there will be a course in orchid growing. Admission is RD$150.

This year’s Santo Domingo Music Festival includes two concerts in the Colonial City. One takes place at the small Capilla de los Remedios on Friday, 6 March at 8:30pm, Ole Hispanoamerica with Dominican soprano Nathalie Pena Comas performing works by leading Spanish composers including Joaquin Rodrigo, Joaquin Turina and Federico Moreno Torroba. She will be …

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President Danilo Medina visited the Customs Agency yesterday, Wednesday 18 February 2015, for the inauguration of a new scientific laboratory that will be used to analyze the content of products entering and departing the country. In his inaugural speech, Customs director Fernando Fernandez said it was a step forward to modernize the service and positively …

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Minister of Public Works Gonzalo Castillo inaugurated several expanded and repaved roads in the province of Peravia (Bani) in the southwest yesterday, Wednesday 18 February 2015. The main stretch was the Bani-Azua 49km four-lane highway, as well as the Pizarrete-Las Barias (19km) road, Villa Sombrero-Matanzas (12km), and Fabio Herrera Cabral avenue in the center of …

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Some 48,000 aspiring teachers have registered for this year’s selection process convened by the Ministry of Education (MINERD). This number has broken all records, more than double the 20,000 who usually apply for teaching posts. Minister of Education Carlos Amarante Baret said that approximately 60% of applicants are not graduates in Education, which shows that …

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The Ministry of Energy and Mines is sending four grandmothers from remote rural communities to India to learn to build artisanal solar panels. The women are 36 to 47 years old and are from the communities in Las Matas de Farfan and Carrera de Yegua in San Juan de la Maguana province. The women have …

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When he took office on 16 August 2012, President Danilo Medina issued decree 454-12 appointing former Vice President Jaime David Fernandez as Minister of Sports and Recreation. The PLD politician did not show up at the swearing-in ceremony of the new President’s Cabinet. Despite his absence from the event, nobody imagined that Fernandez Mirabal would …

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The Ministry of Public Works and Communications has announced that several stretches of Santo Domingo’s main avenues will be closed today, Thursday 19 and tomorrow, Friday 20 February 2015. Parts of Lope de Vega, Kennedy and Tiradentes avenues will be closed from midnight until 6am. According to El Nuevo Diario, the ministry reported the closures …

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Through the good auspices of the HOMS Foundation for Human Solidarity and the Arizona-Dominican Medical Friends Foundation, 30 low-income patients from several parts of the country have benefited from complex surgeries. Over time, some 600 patients have received surgeries that have improved their quality of life. The procedures include knee and hip replacements as well …

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The new Dominican Penal Code (CPD) enacted by President Danilo Medina in December 2014 strikes down 51 laws and legal dispositions that were found to be contradictory. New legislation will not be necessary. The code itself does not go into effect for some 10 months, in order to give the penal system time to adapt …

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