2015 – Page 300

The transport associations affiliated to the National Confederation of Dominican Workers (CNDT) have asked President Danilo Medina to intervene in a dispute between the Dominican Civil Aviation Institute (IDAC) and the Dominican Association of Air Traffic Controllers (ADCA). The problems began when IDAC director Alejandro Herrera fired most of the directors of ADCA last February, …

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After more than two hours of demonstrations yesterday, Tuesday 17 February 2015, students at the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo (UASD) started returning to their normal routine. However, classes at the state university were cancelled today, Wednesday 18 February 2015. The students said the protests were about online enrollment problems at the Humanities Faculty, bad …

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Former Senate president Reinaldo Pared Perez (PLD-National District) gave a radio speech yesterday, Tuesday 17 February 2015 announcing his aspirations to be chosen the PLD presidential candidate in the May 2016 elections. He portrayed himself as the best candidate who for continuing the work of the Medina government. The 2010 Constitution bans President Danilo Medina …

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Foreign Relations Minister Andres Navarro says that the government has no plans to extend the timeframe of the National Foreigner Regularization Plan, which is due to end in June 2015. Navarro said that now it not the time to speak about extensions, as what is actually needed is to help the Haitians who wish to …

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William Charpentier, coordinator of the National Board for Immigrants and Refugees (Menamird) is warning the government that it cannot deport any Haitian national once the National Regularization Plan comes to its conclusion on 15 June 2015. He said that the Dominican state has to comply with established protocol or they will be violating the human …

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Luz y Fuerza, the private electricity company in Samana, is warning that the 34.5-kilowatt line that state-owned power distribution company Edenorte is planning to install in Las Terrenas to connect it with the National Interconnected Electricity System (SENI) is not a viable technical or economic solution as it does not have the capacity to fulfill …

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According to El Nuevo Diario, former Army Captain Quirino Ernesto Paulino Castillo, best known simply as “Quirino”, left the United States Federal Witness Protection Program in 2014 and went to the Dominican Consulate to apply for a passport on 28 November 2014, which he said had been lost, as well as his Dominican identity card …

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The Public Prosecution Office has announced that it has succeeded in a request for extraditing a Dominican from Spain. Juan Francisco Portes Gomez, who is currently in jail in Madrid, is wanted for the murder of Wilmelli Zorrilla Castillo on 27 February 2014 in Santo Domingo East. Extraditan dominicano mató a otro de un disparo

Composer, guitarist and teacher Javier Vargas and his group Atre are booked for an outdoor concert on the steps from the Ozama River that lead to Calle El Conde pedestrian street in the Colonial City in Santo Domingo, this Thursday, 19 February 2015. This will be an evening of jazz, blues, funk and fusion. Vargas …

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Indian Minister of State for External Affairs, Retired General Vijay Kumar Singh met with Foreign Affairs Minister Andres Navarro at the Ministry of Foreign Relations yesterday, Monday 16 February 2015. Minister Singh is in Santo Domingo on an official three-day visit. The 63-year old retired general and Minister of State for External Affairs of India …

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