2017 – Page 205

With 38% of the vote, Yimi Zapata, was chosen president of the Federación de Estudiantes Dominicanos (FED) during the student council election at the UASD state university. The election had been suspended on 24 March 2017, when violence erupted leading the death of Daniel Castillo. With 800 votes pending to be counted, Enerio Rodríguez, president …

Read more…

An editorial in Diario Libre yesterday corrects ProConsumidor, the governmental protection agency, that recently ordered Kentucky Fried Chicken to return to a customer the 10% gratuity charged on a take out order. Diario Libre says that the Supreme Court of Justice had already decided in 2007 on the case of employees who sued a business …

Read more…

The most recent report from the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) reveals that in 2017, the Dominican Republic will grow at an above average rate of 6.2%. Overall, the countries of Central America and the Dominican Republic (the CARD region) will experience an average growth rate of 4.5%. This compares to …

Read more…

The Ministry of Public Health’s on-going campaign to vaccinate 9 and 10-year old girls against the Human papilloma virus is the talk of the town. The vaccination helps prevent girls from contracting cervical cancer, a major cause of death in the Dominican Republic. The vaccines that reportedly cost RD$10,000 each are being applied free to …

Read more…

Deputy Minister of the Presidency Zoraima Cuello, the governmental liaison for the 911 Emergency System, says that the system’s surveillance cameras have detected many cases where units have been sent even before a telephone call has been received. In a TV interview on Despierta RD, she said the method has been effective in assisting in …

Read more…

The Ministry of Education announced it has appointed a commission to study sexual abuse in public schools. The announcement came after a social science teacher was accused of molesting 13 children in a school in Salcedo. Minister of Education Andres Navarro ordered the investigation of two more public schools and demanded that measures be taken …

Read more…

The director of the Center for Exports and Investments (CEI-RD), Luis Henry Molina says the timing is right for more exports, highlighting conversations during a recent meeting of industrial free zone executives with President Danilo Medina. In addition, Molina says the country needs to focus on tourism, attracting more investment and on an increase in …

Read more…

President Danilo Medina will convene a working session of the National Council of the Magistracy (CNM) starting on 15 May 2017. During the sessions, the council will need to replace at five judges of the Supreme Court of Justice, four judges of the Constitutional Court (TC) and five judges for the Superior Electoral Court (TSE). …

Read more…

The Embassy of Haiti has ready around 11,000 documents for Haitians that had requested identity papers from Haiti to regularize their status as part of the Dominican Republic National Status Legalization Plan (PNRE) that began in 2014. The Dominican government has given extensions to Haitians who have not been able to complete the process due …

Read more…

Ministers of Foreign Relations of the Dominican Republic and Haiti, Miguel Vargas and Antonio Rodrigue, respectively, met on 27 April 2017 at the Ministry of Foreign Relations in Santo Domingo and agreed to restart the Bilateral Mixed Commission talks. The Bilateral Mixed Commission is where topics of cooperation, trade, investment, border security and migration are …

Read more…