2022 – Page 82

The Abinader administration delivered a request to Congress for RD$114 billion to be added to the 2022 budget. The new, trillion-peso budget will now be set, if approved, at RD$1,160,282,300,000.00. According to the presidential request, this additional spending covers the “convulsive geopolitical situation” that has required government subsidies for over RD$70 billion: RD$33.7 billion on …

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The Dominican military is part of the migration problem of the Dominican Republic. People’s Force (FP) senator for Dajabon, David Sosa presented a video with evidence of what he calls the many unofficial tolls that minibuses transporting undocumented persons need to pay on border roads to reach their Dominican final destinations. Muckraking journalist Marino Zapete …

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The Institutionalism and Justice Foundation (Finjus), a private sector-backed watchdog operation, has delivered a list of legislation that Congress needs to pass, sooner rather than later. Finjus executive vice-president, Servio Tulio Castaños Guzman hand delivered the document to Alfredo Pacheco, the president of the Chamber of Deputies. The very long list of legislative proposals includes …

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No, it is not the President, it is the governor of the Central Bank. Although the Acento article was written to emphasize the huge gap between the very highest-paid officials in the Dominican bureaucracy and the vast majority of government workers, it is interesting to see who are the highest paid government officials, their salaries …

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The Ministry of Youth in combination with the Japanese Embassy has announced this year’s program of scholarships to study in Japan. This is part of the International Exchange for the Development of Youth, sponsored by the government of Japan. There are eight scholarships available, and applications will be accepted until 23 September 2022. This year’s …

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It is well known that there are no venomous snakes in the Dominican Republic. In fact, there are very few venomous insects at all. Yes, there are black and brown widow spiders, scorpions, centipedes and tarantulas, all of which are generally scarce. There are bullfrogs the exude a very toxic poison if attacked. And, up …

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The National Drug Control Agency (DNCD) and the Public Prosecutor’s Office of this province dealt a blow to arms trafficking with a transnational investigation that led to the arrest of two people, firearms and cash on Thursday, 25 August 2022 – the KAF Operation. A press release from the DNCD explains the raids took place …

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The members of the regional branch of the Criminal Investigation Division (Dicrim) in East Santo Domingo served arrest warrants on two of the participants in the May 2022 robbery of an armored car that was in the parking lot of a propane gas station in Los Mameyes. Also arrested was a person found in one …

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The story had been making the rounds of social media for months. Now documents have been made public revealing the modus operandi and the persons involved in a new major corruption case against officials and private person associates dating to the Medina administration days. Recently, Judge Kenya Romero ordered the Superintendence of Banks, Securities, Insurance, …

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The defense of former Attorney General Jean Alain Rodriguez, in jail at Najayo accused of significant corruption during the Medina administration, protests that his former right hand at the Attorney General Office, Rafael Stefano Canó Sacco is getting privileged treatment from the Public Prosecutors Office. Canó Sacco left the country and, while in Spain, became …

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