2017 – Page 199

According to economist Pavel Isa Contreras, poverty in the Dominican Republic is down from 36% to 30%. But this decline may only be temporary. The UN consultant said that despite the economic growth, unemployment continues high at 13% and wages are stagnated. He said farming is declined to 5% of the economy in 2015, down …

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The National Council of Export Free Zones (CNZFE) approved the installation of six companies and four new industrial parks with an investment of RD$4.09 billion. These newsindustries will generate an additional 10,000 jobs and boost yearly foreign exchange in the range of US$11.6 million. Industry, Commerce and Small Business Minister Temistocles Montas made the announcement …

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The ministries of Environment and Public Works have begun to remove billboards that cause visual contamination on highways in the Dominican Republic. The first to be removed was a billboard on km 28 of the Duarte Highway. On 4 May 2017, Environment Minister Francisco Dominguez Brito and director general of the Military and Police Commission …

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The famous children’s film by DreamWorks’ Madasgascar opens at the Carlos Piantini Hall of the National Theater on 3 and 4 June 2017. The musical is a production by JAM Academy produced by Elizabeth Lenhart and directed by Luis Marcel Ricart. The stars of the show are Jose Alexander Diaz, Priscila Maltes, Cynthia Cespedes, Rafael …

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A delegation of officials from the Chicago White Sox visited the Presidential Palace on 3 May 2017 to meet President Danilo Medina. Jerry Reinsdorf, chairman of the White Sox, and David Ball, executive director of the White Sox for the Dominican Republic were part of the courtesy visit. As reported, they talked baseball and sports. …

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Rosa Mariana Brea Franco has just published a new book on how to cope with grief and loss. The book “Comprensión del duelo en el Siglo XXI. Nuevas perspectivas” will be launched on Thursday, 4 May 2017 at the Biblioteca Nacional auditorium at 7pm. In an interview in Diario Libre, Brea says the book goes …

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Two criminals who last Monday, 1 May 2017 carjacked a woman in the Naco neighborhood in Santo Domingo and stole her SUV, returned the vehicle yesterday after parking it in front of her apartment. They also left a note, handwritten and in very poor Spanish, asking for her pardon and blessings. The woman’s lawyer, Julio …

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Diario Libre has been tracking candidates that may challenge Leonardo Matos Berrido as president of the Dominican Republic Professional Baseball League (Lidom). Lawyer Vitelio Mejía, engineer Arturo Gil (former president of the Azucareros of La Romana) and Jorge Dargam could be contenders for the post. Matos Berrido has run practically uncontested for years and has …

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The president of the Life Without Violence Foundation, Yanira Fondeur demanded that the National Police provide a full list of femicides for the first quarter of this year. Fondeur disputed the 13 femicides reported by the Police, saying that the real number of women killed by their partners or former partners is 22. Fondeur noted …

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Three of the nation’s pediatric societies have reported that the government’s Essential Medicine Program (Promese/CAL) are protesting the winner of a tender that chose supplier of a pulmonary surfactant for use in newborn children. The pediatricians warn that there might be a problem with the company whose permit they say had been suspended in September …

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