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, June 13, until yesterday’s printed edition, Saturday.
Monday June 13
Inabie will allocate RD$21,000 million to purchase food
The National Institute of Student Welfare (Inabie) It has projected an investment of RD$21,000 million in food for students in the next school year 22-23.
Currently the School Feeding Program (PEA) executed by Inabie impacts around two million public school students daily, of which 700,000 receive breakfast and around 1,300,000 lunch and snacks.
These figures represent some 5.0 million food rations that are delivered every day and 600,000 households benefited, which have an estimated effective savings of more than RD$1,800 million per month.
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Tuesday June 14
They investigate the murder of 12 thousand people in Ukraine
The beauty of a lush pine forest and the singing of birds contrasted with the deaths of the newly discovered victims of the war in Ukrainewhen workers exhumed bodies from another grave near Bucha, on the outskirts of kyiv.
The hands of several victims were tied behind their backs. The work to unearth the remains coincided with the Ukrainian police chief’s report that authorities have opened investigations into the killings of more than 12,000 people since Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24.
Workers in hazmat suits and masks used shovels to exhume bodies from the forest, marking each section with small, numbered yellow signs on the ground.
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Wednesday June 15
CD approves US$600 million loans, one is due until 2041
The Plenary session of the Chamber of Deputies (CD) yesterday approved two new loan contracts for the sum of US$600 million, to finance the electricity sector and the Development Policy Operations Program.
The loans were sent to the lower house by the Executive Power on March 24, and now they must be endorsed by the Senate.
In another vote, the deputies approved in second reading the Bill of Law that creates the province Matias Ramon Mellamade up of four municipalities in the Santo Domingo province, which requires the establishment of new state institutions and raising congressional and local enrollment.
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Thursday January 16
ADP: despite 4% problems persist in the Dominican educational system
Despite the investment since 2013 of 4 percent of the National Budget to pre-university education, the Dominican educational system has not been able to overcome fundamental problems.
so stated Edward Hidalgopresident of the Dominican Association of Teachers (ADP), who cited that part of the problems that persist are identified from teaching under a tree, overcrowding of students in classrooms and delay in delivery of school texts.
In that sense, he said that the ADP proposes open and honest dialoguein which all sectors of society participate, to seek consensus solutions.
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Friday June 17
Vice Raquel Peña is appointed as head of the Environment
President Louis Abinader appointed yesterday, provisionally, the vice-president Rachel Pena Rodriguezin charge of the Ministry of the Environment and Natural Resources, a position she held Orlando Jorge Merawho was assassinated on the sixth of this month in his office.
The appointment was made by decree 321-22issued yesterday by the Executive Power, which establishes that Peña Rodríguez is provisionally in charge of the Ministry of the Environment.
It specifies that the appointment will take effect until the President appoints a definitive holder in that position in the next few days. It adds that the functions in that entity will be exercised in addition to its constitutional powers. honorably.
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Saturday June 18
MP seizes assets of Jean Alain Rodríguez
The Public ministry yesterday seized three properties in the National District, belonging to the former attorney Jean Alain Rodriguez Sanchezincluding a flat in a building on Gustavo Mejía Ricart Avenue, as part of the investigation in the so-called case “Operation Medusa”.
The properties seized by the MP are an office floor in the Torre Solazar, on Avenida Gustavo Mejia Ricart 54with an area of 652 square meters and several parking spaces.
Supposedly it was bought by the trading company Jurinvest Lawyersowned by Rodríguez Sánchez, on October 12, 2020, for US$800,000.
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