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IMF and DR reach agreement on expendituresSANTO DOMINGO. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) reached an agreement with the Dominican Authorities in order for them to make additional efforts to strengthen income, contain the electricity subsidies and moderate other expenditures. The information was released by Murilo Portugal, the Deputy Managing Director of the IMF, after meeting with the governor of the Central Bank, Hector Valdez...
CD approves US$80 million more for PalominoSANTO DOMINGO. The Chamber of Deputies ratified yesterday the amendment to the loan contract for the construction of the Palomino Hydroelectric Project, increasing the amount from US$50 million to...
 Some 95% of corruption cases remain unpunishedSANTO DOMINGO. The national director of the Department of Persecution of Administrative Corruption, Hotoniel Bonilla, said that the justice system was not made to punish corrupt politicians, because... Perez to CAASD; Rivas to Port Authority and Peña Guaba, "assistant" to LFSANTO DOMINGO. President Leonel Fernandez yesterday appointed Freddy Perez as the executive director of the Water and Sewer Corporation of Santo Domingo (CAASD), in substitution of Ramon Rivas, who...
 An attempt to stop the theft and sale of auto partsSANTO DOMINGO. The District Attorney of the National District and the National Association of Retailers of Parts and Accessories for Motor Vehicles (Anaderavem) agreed to establish control...
 Attorney General earns first place in transparencySANTO DOMINGO. The Attorney General of the Republic obtained a score of 99 out of 100 with regards to the fulfillment of the norms that promote transparency in the public administration in the year...
 Foreign debt increased 23.9% in the first semesterSANTO DOMINGO. The foreign debt increased by 23. 9% in the first semester of the year with relation to the same period of the year before because of the emission of US$750 million in sovereign...
 Doctors get their 15% raiseSANTO DOMINGO. Doctors and other health workers began to collect their paychecks, which includes the 15% pay raise ordered by the government. The payment was delayed because of the adjustments to...
Another minor dies from dengue in SantiagoSANTIAGO. Dengue continues to roll up fatalities in the city of Santiago, where another little girl, just 7 years old, died from the illness, after spending 18 hours in the Dr. Arturo Grullon...
 Amet collects fines for more than RD$200 millionSANTO DOMINGO. The director of the Metropolitan Transit Authority (AMET) has collected for the government some RD$215 million in barely five months under the leadership of Major General Jose Anibal...
 Trapped Chilean miners listen to Juan Luis GuerraSANTO DOMINGO. A new video of the trapped miners in Chile, showed yesterday that they were in good spirits, shaved, using new clothes and sleeping in beds. The images, transmitted by CNN, and which...
 The new trauma hospital in Villa Mella begins operationsSANTO DOMINGO. "My God, why did this happen to me? That motorcycle hit me!" cried Jose Calcaño yesterday, as he became one of the first trauma patients that received emergency assistance in...
 Jarabacoa capo turns himself inSANTIAGO. The drug trafficker Belarminio Tavarez Sanchez, known as "Chon", who is accused of operating a network of drug dealers in the town of Jarabacoa, turned himself in yesterday to the...
 Hurricane "Earl" leaves the country and rains diminish in the EastSANTO DOMINGO. The National Meteorological Office (Onamet) issued a forecast last night in its 10:00 p. m. bulletin, that called for a reduction in the rains due to the distancing of Hurricane Earl... A tractor trailer causes the death of three personsSANTO DOMINGO. Tragedy blanketed Villas Agricolas yesterday when a tractor trailer filled with solid waste, whose driver apparently lost control on the Respaldo Moca Street, killed three persons,...