2017 – Page 121

According to data from the legal and citizen services department of the Dominican General Consulate, of a total estimated 15,000 Dominicans in jail in the United States, there are 1,734 in immigration detention centers. Most of those in jail are serving sentences for serious offences such as murder, drug dealing, gang membership, arson, fraud, extortion, …

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A National District court has rejected a request to free the Italian-Canadian businessman, Antonio Carbone, held in remand in jail accused of attempted murder of the General Manager of Dreams Casino Corporation, Fernando Báez Guerrero, in 2014. Carbone had claimed he was being held in jail illegally but this was rejected by the judge. He …

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The 2.5 million Banreservas customers and the 1 million BHD Leon customers are benefitting from the agreement whereby they can use the ATM machines at either of the banks without an additional charge. According to Diario Libre, the BR has 669 ATMs and the BHD León has 652, making for a network of 1,321 ATMs …

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The Modern Revolutionary Party (PRM) has expressed its disagreement with the Maduro administration’s recent political maneuverings in Venezuela. On 30 July 2017, the Maduro-led government carried out a controversial and widely unpopular election to name representatives to a Constituent Assembly that would essentially allow Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro to further consolidate his power in the …

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The National Drug Control Agency (DNCD) announced the seizing of a shipment of more than a thousand packages of a white powder suspect to be cocaine off Azua on the southwestern coast. The DNCD has not provided details, but advanced there are five foreigners arrested in the case. The DNCD says that with this shipment, …

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The Attorney General’s Office has announced that in connection with the Odebrecht bribery scandal new and valuable information has been provided to the AG’s office by the Brazilian government. The information includes emails, fictitious contracts and testimonials from four of Odebrecht executives based in Brazil. This information supposedly identifies those Dominican public servants who had …

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The Political Committee of the Dominican Liberation Party (PLD) agreed that Temístocles Montás, Radhamés Segura and Julio Cesar Valentin could continue in their duties within the committee, despite being charged in connection with the Odebrecht corruption case. The three PLD officials had asked to be suspended from the committee, but the decision was taken on …

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Father Mario Serrano, national director of the Company of Jesus of the Catholic Church (the Jesuits), has expressed his organization’s support to the Green Movement. Serrano stated that as Jesuits they are accompanying the Dominican people in the search for justice and better democracy. He said that he did not agree with calls made during …

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Only 4.7% of mothers in the Dominican Republic exclusively breastfeed their infants as recommended during the child’s first six months, according to the National Household Survey (Enhogar-MICS 2014). This is well below the average of the 30% breastfeeding rate for Latin American and Caribbean. The discussion of the report was meant to highlight World Breastfeeding …

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Spokesmen for the taxi unions are calling for the government to award pensions to the taxi drivers that under the new Transport and Transit Law 63-17 will no longer be authorized to drive public transport vehicles. Santiago Zamora, spokesmen for the union of touristic taxis (Codotatur), explained that Art. 101 of the new law prohibits …

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