2017 – Page 253

Some 36 ponds and lakes created by three rivers, the Brujuelas, Tosa and the Caganche, are about to disappear. Indeed, 15 of ponds are already nearly dry. Deforestation around the lakes and the extraction of underground water are to blame for the disappearance of these bodies of water. As a result, there has been an …

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The Block of Campesinos (small farmers) in Valle Nuevo, Constanza decided to grant the government a truce until Saturday, 4 March 2017, with the hopes that a solution can be negotiated regarding the conflict over the application of Resolution 14-2016 that prohibits farming inside the Valle Nuevo National Park. Norberto Rosario, the president of the …

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The Mayor of Santiago Abel Martinez called on the migration authorities to undertake actions to control the entry of thousands of undocumented persons who continue arriving in Santiago, where he said they invade plazas, parks and other sectors while the authorities are doing nothing to deal with the situation. Answering questions from reporters from the …

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On Wednesday, 1 March 2017, the Senate approved the appointment of Hugo Francisco Alvarez Pérez as the presiding member for the Chamber of Accounts, the auditing body of the government. Alvarez Pérez is the son of a former justice of the Supreme Court of Justice, Hugo Alvárez Valencia. He graduated in law from the Catholic …

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Administrative Minister of the Presidency, José Ramon Peralta told reporters from the Diario Libre on 1 March 2017 in Santiago that the government would proceed with a legal case against those found responsible for irregularities in government land sales in the Los Tres Brazos area in eastern Santo Domingo. A high-level commission that reviewed the …

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The high-ranking government commission appointed by President Danilo Medina to investigate the murder of two broadcasters in San Pedro de Macorís concluded that the State Sugar Council (CEA) should be held responsible for three deaths, as reported in MetroRD. The murders happened on 14 and 15 February 2017, when enraged José Rodríguez barged in on …

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The Judicial Branch Council has reacted after it learned that the United States has removed travel visas to three judges that had issued a sentence favoring accused drug trafficker Winston Rizik. The Judicial Branch Council (CPJ) on Tuesday, 28 February 2017, ordered an investigation into the legal procedures and processes followed by the three Court …

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Judge José Alejandro Vargas did not validate the agreement reached between the Attorney General Office and executives of the Brazilian Odebrecht construction project. Attorney General Jean-Alain Rodríguez had revealed that the agreement called for compensation to the Dominican government for US$184 million, or double the confessed US$92 million in bribes paid by Odebrecht, over an …

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The Ministry of Industry and Commerce (MIC) and the World Bank signed a cooperation agreement to improve the management of the ministry on 1 March 2017. The agreement calls for the World Bank to conduct a survey and analysis of the current operation of the ministry, and then propose a strategy to achieve the desired …

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During a meeting on monetary policy, the Central Bank of the Dominican Republic officials decided to maintain the basic interest rate at 5.5%. The decision regarding the basic interest rate was adopted after an analysis regarding the possibilities of inflationary risks as well as the state of the economy, using its principal indicators, the market …

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