2015 – Page 311

The executive vice president of the Dominican Electricity Corporation Ruben Jimenez Bichara and Energy and Mines Minister Pelegrin Castillo have rejected claims that the government would be making a historical error by installing two coal-fired plants at a cost of US$2 billion. The plants are being installed in order to secure lower cost of generation. …

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Institutionalism and Justice Foundation (Finjus) vice president Servio Tulio Castanos is calling on Congress to pass a political parties ruling based on principles of transparency and respect for internal democracy as established in the 2010 Constitution. He said that if a weak political parties bill is passed that is accommodated to the political parties this …

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Journalists say it is not true that the Metropolitan Transport Authority (AMET) and the Santo Domingo city government (ADN) have cleaned up the infamous west-east Duarte con Paris intersection. El Nacional says that the same chaotic situation is affecting other areas where squatters and informal vendors have taken over, including under the overpasses at Av. …

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Immigration Department Director Jose Ricardo Taveras says that the Dominican Republic is a sovereign nation with its own immigration policies. Taveras rejected the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child’s recommendation that the DR should grant Dominican nationality to the children of undocumented foreigners born in its territory. In an interview with Cesar …

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The Wildlife Without Borders Foundation has filed a complaint in the Dominican Republic in response to illegal cutting of trees in Dominican territory to produce charcoal for the Haitian market, as reported in Haiti Libre. The practice is causing considerable damage to the environment. Foundation president Manuel Cruz Estevez said that the species cut include …

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Asisa Research says that former President Leonel Fernandez would win PLD primaries with 46.8% of the vote. His wife Margarita Cedeno would receive 28%, senator Reinaldo Pared 12.4%, Tourism Minister Francisco Javier Garcia 7.4%, Attorney General Francisco Dominguez Brito 4%, Economy Minister Temistocles Montas and former CDEEE vice president Radhames Segura 1.2%, and the Dominican …

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If the presidential election were to take place today, former President Leonel Fernandez would receive enough votes to win in a first round, according to the latest Asisa Research poll. The survey found that Fernandez would receive 55.9% of the vote, Hipolito Mejia would receive 16.5%, and Miguel Vargas of the PRD 8.3%. 16.8% says …

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Several men in Edesur electricity utility uniforms gained access to the Santo Domingo home of Haitian Ambassador Fritz Cineas at 11am yesterday, Thursday 5 February 2015 and removed two safes. The security guard was injured and the maid was tied up and gagged. Minister Counselor at the Haitian Embassy Magaly Jeanti Magloide said that they …

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Police chief Major General Manuel Castro Castillo says that Pedro Brand town councilor Erinsson de los Santos Solis (Ney) heads a network of contract killers, and allegedly used a people-smuggling organization to arrange the departure to Venezuela of fugitive Police sergeant Felix de Jesus Lora (El Pelotero). In a press conference held yesterday, Thursday 5 …

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France’s most wanted woman, Hayat Boumeddiene was just another of thousands of tourists enjoying a Dominican beach. In a report published on Monday 2 February 2015, the Washington Post publishes a photo of her posing in a black bikini with her boyfriend terrorist Amedy Coulibaly, who carried out the deadly attack on a kosher supermarket …

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