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Press of Atlantic City
March 27, 2018
In return, they said, Menendez interceded with Medicare officials investigating his practice, obtained visas for Melgen's foreign mistresses, and pressured the State Department to intervene in a business dispute he had with the Dominican government. Menendez and Melgen denied wrongdoing, saying theÃâà...
The Justice
March 27, 2018
In 2013, the Dominican Republic passed a law revoking the citizenship of any Dominicans born in the country to undocumented parents since 1929. An international outcry ensued, and in 2014, the Dominican government created a regularization plan for these now-illegal residents. The law put the status ofÃâà...
Los Angeles Times
March 26, 2018
All that excavation turned out to be excellent training for the years Smith spent poring through microfiche to reconstruct the depredations of the Jim Crow South — one particularly harrowing chapter involves a lynch mob in New Orleans — and diving into Dominican government archives to capture the roar ofÃâà...
World Politics Review
March 23, 2018
On Feb. 27, the president of the Dominican Republic, Danilo Medina, declared that his government was sending a contingent of 900 soldiers, aided by surveillance drones, to secure his country's border with Haiti. The two countries share the Caribbean island of Hispaniola, but significant economicÃâà...
Mondaq News Alerts
March 10, 2018
On June 1st 2017, Dominican nationals and residents woke up subject to a new Money Laundering framework. Law No. 155-17 replaced outdated money laundering statute No. 72-02, which had been enacted with a main focus on money laundering derived from illegal drug-related activities. The executiveÃâà...
WNYC
March 9, 2018
The Dominican Republic's government cited 83 femicides in 2016, according to local media reports, the highest number since 2012. Other media tallied an average of 200 a year. "We're afraid," said Belgica Gonzalez, 49, in Spanish. "We have friends, we have sisters, we have aunts, we have cousins,Ãâà...
PV-Tech
March 8, 2018
The project is part of the Support Plan for Renewable Energy Projects — promoted by the Dominican government and the Dominican Corporation of State Electric Companies, CDEEE. The groundbreaking ceremony for the site was held in the Dominican Republic and was attended by the President of theÃâà...
pv magazine International
March 8, 2018
Part of the Support Plan for Renewable Energy Projects promoted by the Dominican government, it is expected to be completed in one year. In April 2017, the country's government included the project among the three PV projects planned for 2018. The largest of the initiatives is the 58 MW Montecristi SolarÃâà...
Red Bull
March 1, 2018
Mena is no stranger to these travelling difficulties, either: he has previously expressed that the Dominican government had to grant him permission each time he wanted to travel out of the country, since he was underage. Since American dollars are largely inflated within the DR's economy, the cost of plane tickets alsoÃâà...
Latin American Herald Tribune
February 28, 2018
SANTO DOMINGO – Dominican President Danilo Medina said on Tuesday that 900 soldiers, supported by 90 vehicles and three helicopters, will be ... Medina made the announcement at a moment when some sectors of Dominican society are demanding that the government take action against a “quiet invasion” ofÃâà...
Latin American Herald Tribune
February 27, 2018
SANTO DOMINGO – Dominican President Danilo Medina said on Tuesday that 900 soldiers, supported by 90 vehicles and three helicopters, will be ... Medina made the announcement at a moment when some sectors of Dominican society are demanding that the government take action against a “quiet invasion” ofÃâà...
NorthJersey.com
February 22, 2018
The doctor pocketed millions more by splitting single-use vials of an expensive eye drug into four doses — there was enough extra medicine in each — and billing the government separately for each injection, they said. Melgen's attorneys argued that this cost the government no extra money, as MedicareÃâà...
Wicked Local Plymouth
February 14, 2018
It is well that the equipment is portable as the Dominican government has decided to move the entire village from their mountain home to another mountainous region, ironically near the village of Rio Grande, where Maestas had been building the school cafeteria. Both are located outside the city ofÃâà...
IndraStra Global
February 12, 2018
The Army of the Dominican Republic took over, from its U.S. counterpart, leadership of the Conference of American Armies (CAA) for the present two-year cycle, granting the institution and the Dominican government an unprecedented opportunity to both demonstrate its institutional capacity, and to shapeÃâà...
Fast Company
February 7, 2018
But the project has stirred up plenty of controversy on the island, due to a proposal requested by the Cap Cana Group—and supported by the Dominican government—to dramatically increase the long-standing height restrictions of buildings on the coast, from 4 stories to 22 stories. The higher height limitÃâà...
FreshPlaza
February 5, 2018
Curacao seeks to import fruit and veg from the Dominican Republic ... The Minister of Economic Development of Curacao, Steven Martina, met with representatives of the Dominican government and exporters of Dominican fruit and vegetables to discuss more constant and reliable exports to the DutchÃâà...
Elizabethtown News Enterprise
February 5, 2018
Central Hardin High School Principal Tim Isaacs talks with a volunteer on the 2018 Lifetouch Memory Mission in Rio Grande, Dominican Republic. Isaacs went on the trip in ... Isaacs said the Dominican government doesn't have money to build schools where they are needed. However, the government willÃâà...
International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (blog)
December 31, 1999
Threats to Dominican Republic investigative journalist Alicia Ortega Hasbun from an inmate sharing a jail cell with an alleged drug lord convicted this week ... Divulging and condemning threats like this one because of support from international organizations puts pressure on the government to really crackÃâà...
La Croix International
December 31, 1999
Dominican Brother Henri Burin des Roziers, nicknamed "the lawyer of the landless" wanted to "stay with his family." (Photo by Paulo ... “There is a spirit of revenge on the side of these powerful groups, a desire to wipe out the victories of the 15 years of popular government,” he said. “The church is caught upÃâà...
Bernews
December 31, 1999
The Ministry of Home Affairs said they are “delighted to report” that the Dominican Republic is the latest signatory of the Hamilton Declaration on Collaboration for the Conservation of the Sargasso Sea. The Declaration is a political commitment by the signatories to work with the Government of Bermuda andÃâà...
