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PRD calls for attention to Police reform
SANTO DOMINGO. The Dominican Revolutionary Party (PRD) called on its deputies to study with great care the legislative proposal for the reformation of the National Police. The legislation was recently submitted to the National Congress by President Danilo Medina.Miguel Vargas, the president and spokesman for the White Party, said that given the importance of the police reform, the PRD deputies ...
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We are going to put an end to networks of prostitution
The Attorney General says that he began a serious process to hit the networks of trafficking. He worries that the country is sold as a place for sex.SD. The networks of trafficking of prostitutes and human trafficking are the most organized in the country according to the Attorney General of the Republic, Francisco Dominguez Brito, who calls them "extremely strong and extremely ...
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First post-baby appearance for Andrea and Tatiana
show in Monaco on Sunday. The glowing new mum beamed as she turned up to the fashion event with her equally happy fiance. She had opted to cover up in a red cape and baggy black trousers. Andrea, meanwhile, was dapper in a blue suit and red ...
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Ring beat and forced Haitian children to beg in Dominican capital
Santo Domingo.- The members of the dismantled network who trafficked with Haitian children beat them savagely if they returned home without money, after being forced to beg at busy intersections of the capital, many having spent entire days without being given anything to eat. The ring kept the more than 58 rescued minors under a reign of terror, so much so that despite the beatings and ...
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Meeting on Caribbean Biological Corridor in Santiago de Cuba
Santiago de Cuba, 20 May (Prensa Latina) The 4th Ministerial Meeting on the Caribbean Biological Corridor (CBC) will be held May 21st-May 23rd in this city of eastern Cuba, said authorities from that regional initiative. The previous meetings were held in the Dominican Republic and Haiti, the two countries that, along with Cuba, form the initial nucleus of CBC, which aims, since its creation in ...
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Dominican businesses expanding role in Haiti reconstruction
The Dominican Republic is already a regional leader in Central America and now looks poised to play an even greater role in the future of disaster-hit Haiti. The two countries are already major trade partners, and this relationship looks set to expand into rebuilding the country as well.
The Dominican Republic has one of the strongest economies in Central America and is one of the major trade partners of earthquake-beleaguered Haiti. For this reason, political leaders in the country have pointed out that it is vital for local businesses to continue or expand their involvement in Haiti’s reconstruction, or the country would lose an important source of revenue. Read more
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