2021 – Page 11

The Vice President of El Salvador Félix Ulloa Jr. is scheduled to tour the National Institute of Technical Professional Training (Infotep) facilities. Infotep director Rafael Santos Badía and Dominican ambassador to El Salvador Julio Cesar George hosted the Vice President. As reported, the office of the Vice-Presidency of El Salvador is focused on the Trifinio …

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The Association of Industries of the Dominican Republic (AIRD) recently recognized the Ministry of Industry, Commerce and MSMEs with the Award for Institutional Work in Support of the Industrial Sector. With this recognition, the AIRD highlights the new contributions, support and defense of the national industry at the Ministry now under Minister Victor (Ito) Bisonó. …

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The Dominican Price Stabilization Institute (Inespre) is a decades-old agency that serves both farmers and consumers. In the beginning, back in 1969, Inespre would purchase almost the entire harvest of consumer goods such as garlic, rice and beans to ensure a measure of price stabilization. The agency has certainly had its ups and downs, but …

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In 2016, Chile implemented a consumer protection law mandating front-of-package warning labels, restricting marketing, and banning school sales for high-calorie, sodium, sugar, or saturated fat products. Now the Chilean senator responsible for the law, physician Guido Girardi is in the Dominican Republic to lobby for the country to also pass a bill similar to the …

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Some four months ago, the Abinader administration initiated a program to weed out persons who were being paid by government bank transfers but who never showed up to work. As a result of the program at least 5,000 persons, with an annual pay of over RD$1 billion have been found to be irregularly on the …

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Last week President Luis Abinader announced the government had reached an amicable deal with those who held for years the onerous Samana toll roads contract. In addition to the highest tolls in the country, taxpayers also had to fit the bill for the so-called shadow toll, the mechanism in the clause whereby when traffic levels …

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The second largest telecommunications company operating in the Dominican Republic, Altice says it has committed a lot of money to improve communications in the areas of San Cristobal, Higüey, La Romana, La Vega and San Pedro de Macoris. The improved services will be both fixed and mobile. To ensure the program, Altice deposited US$5.1 million …

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The director of the School of Prosecutors of the Supreme Court of Justice, Marien Montero Beard has been identified as the person who appears in a video made by the security assigned to accompany former Attorney General Jean Alain Rodríguez Sanchez to the Abel Gonzalez for a medical check up. Rodriguez is in preventive custody …

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Since the change of government, 23% of the cocaine seized in the Dominican Republic has been confiscated at the Punta Caucedo Multimodal Port, the largest freight container terminal in the country. Listin Diario reached the 23% percentage after adding up announcements made the National Drug Control Agency (DNCD). From August 2020 to December 2021, around …

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A freight trailer carrying an estimated 166 migrants suffered a terrible accident in the south of Mexico last week, and now it has been announced that there were at least five Dominicans on that truck, including one among the 55 who died. The deceased was identified as 23-year old Yuniel Morban because of his tattoos. …

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