This is a summary of the printed editions of the week in which we will highlight the news that was of greatest interest and relevance in said editions, starting from last Monday, May 30, until yesterday’s printed edition, Saturday.
Monday, May 30, 2022
Senator Yván Lorenzo challenges the director of the DGCP
Director General of Public Procurement, Carlos Pimentelcannot contain the avidity of the officials of the government of Louis Abinader. This is what the opposition senator believes Yvan Lawrencewho challenged the director of the DGCP to proceed with the cases in unabiethe contracting of the Treasury for 65 million from a platform to select food, the 20 million that they overpaid in the Ministry of Energy and Mines to contract coal, among others.
“Once again it continues to be an instrument at the service of the ruling party”Lorenzo expressed about Pimentel, who again challenged him to go to the National Congress to demonstrate the transparency of the Government, as it did in the past.
“We have summoned Carlos Pimentel, and the official bench does not allow officials to be transparent and come here to Congress to give explanations. They sing like roosters, but they run away like hens », he assured.
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Tuesday, May 31, 2022
Luis Abinader announces contracting of 800 MW in Manzanillo
President Louis Abinader announced the conclusion of the tender for the installation of 800 megawatts in Manzanillo, the largest amount in Dominican history.
These are two plants of 400 MW each and a natural gas terminal, a project that is part of a comprehensive development strategy for the electricity sector.
The president stated that the public bidding program launched to install 2,000 new megawatts of capacity, 800 of them in chamomile, Montecristiis part of a State policy that will overcome the erratic management of the past.
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Wednesday, June 1, 2022
They project more than US$8 billion of exports from free zones
The free zone sector will end this year with a export volume of more than US$8 billion and nearly 200 thousand direct jobs generated.
This, thanks to the recovery and constant post-covid-19 growth that the sector has had, the president projected yesterday Louis Abinader.
Abiunader made the observation while leading an act in which the Minister of Industry and Commerce, Víctor -Íto- Bisonópresented a balance of the sector.
The president pointed out that the results achieved up to last year, and that have continued to be exhibited since the beginning of this year in terms of jobs, investments and exports, convincingly show that we are on the right track and that free zones grow and become stronger every day.
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Thursday June 2, 2022
Deputies leave US$250 million loan on the table
A new loan from $250 million He confronted the pro-government deputies and the opposition and in the end, they had to leave it on the table.
It is the contract with Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)to be used to strengthen the Program for the Sustainability and Efficiency of the Electricity Sector III.
The barrage of criticism against the new loan was initiated by legislators from the opposition Dominican Liberation Party (PLD), accusing the Luis Abinader government of contract 30 loans in less than two years and to indebt the country for some 15 billion dollars.
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Friday June 3, 2022
Government initiates security plan opposed by the PRM
One year after the start of the citizen security plan “My Safe Country”which obviously has not been able to reduce crime, the Government has had to opt for a mechanism implemented in the governments of the Dominican Liberation Party (PLD) without positive results, and which at the time was questioned by the Modern Revolutionary Party (PRM). ): the police-military operations.
yesterday the president Louis Abinader announced that, in order to face insecurity due to the increase in armed robberies that have the population in anxiety without distinction of social classes, the police and military patrolon a permanent basis.
The issue of insecurity has the Government in trouble, because on June 4, 2021, the president assured that the plan “My Safe Country” represented the most ambitious, largest and organized that the country has ever had, but in fact it has not been possible to stop criminal actions that sometimes border on a mockery of the authorities.
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Saturday June 4, 2022
Crime challenges operational security; 5 dead on the first day
Barely 24 hours after the president Louis Abinader ordered the activation of “My Safe Country”the joint operation of the National Police and Armed Forces to confront the rampant crime that affects the country, five men were shot dead and two wounded in separate cases in Greater Santo Domingo and Santiago.
two hooded guys who were traveling on a DT motorcycle shot two men to death and wounded another inside a gray Honda CRV SUV yesterday after 4:00 pm in the El Bonito sector, at kilometer 16 of the Mella highway, in front of a hardware store, where the victims stopped to buy some materials for blacksmithing.
The dead were identified as Fernando Santos Martinez28 years old, a native of La Vega and who managed a dealer, and Victor Brahian Sanchez Solano; the wounded is the young blacksmith Julio Cesar Marte Rodriguez21 years old, who last night remained in the Darío Contreras hospital in a delicate state, it was reported.
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