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Today’s Listin Diario comments on how lack of planning is threatening the sustainability of Cabarete, the DR’s leading wind and ocean destination. Hector Lopez writes that real estate development in the area has followed the closure of several hotels, resulting in fewer visitors to the area. He comments that from 11 windsurfing and kite surfing schools in the area some eight years ago, today there are only five windsurfing schools left. Zoning legislation establishes a maximum height of 11.5 meters for buildings, or three floors. But he says that builders have violated the zoning and built four and more floors, affecting the wind speeds in the area. It is recommended that construction of more than three floors on both sides of the highway, from La Rinconada to Playa El Encuentro should not be allowed, to ensure that Cabarete remains one of the leading windsurfing capitals of the world, he writes. [...]

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The Central Bank annual report indicates that the public foreign debt increased US$1.817.1 million in 2008. As of 31 December 2007, the foreign debt was US$8.549.6 million, increasing to US$10,366.7 million in 2008. This is 22.5% of the Gross Domestic Product. The debt is made up by US$9.283 million of the non financial public sector and US$1.083.7 million of the financial public sector. The financial public sector covers monetary and non-monetary institutions and the non-financial public sector covers the central government, states/provinces and local government authorities and non-financial state enterprises.
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According to the report, 28.8% of the debt is with multilateral organizations and 44.7% with bilateral financing organizations, 26.5% is with private financial organizations, and 6.89% with commercial banks, 19.5% with bond financiers (sovereign and Brady bonds) and 0.1% with suppliers.
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During his visit to Cuba, President Leonel Fernandez reached an agreement with his Cuban counterpart Raul Castro for cooperation between several governmental educational centers. During his five-day trip, Fernandez visited Havana’s Information Technology University and announced plans for collaboration with the Las Americas Institute of Technology (ITLA) and CyberPark in Santo Domingo.
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In Cuba, Fernandez praised the country’s educational models, and also proposed that the Enrique Jose Varona Higher Education Institute sign agreements with the Dominican Teachers Association that consists of teachers working at public schools. The proposal was welcomed by center director Alfredo Mateo Diaz Fuentes.
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Accompanying his on his trip to Cuba were Education Minister Melanio Paredes and Eddy Martinez, director of the Center for Exports and Investments (CEI-RD).
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In Cuba, the President attended the XI International Meeting of Economists. On his last day in Cuba, Fernandez also visited the Cuban Film Institute (InCaic), and [...]

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President Leonel Fernandez has authorized a RD$20 million disbursement to the Dominican Rehabilitation Association to help the disability charity tackle its RD$40 million deficit. The information was provided by the association’s president, Mery Perez de Marranzini. The non-profit organization will receive the money in monthly payments. El Nuevo Diario reports that the President also instructed Administrative Minister Luis Manuel Bonetti to finish the construction of the rehabilitation center in Bani. The association was trying to work on a monthly budget of just RD$2 million. The new disbursement came after Mery Perez de Marranzini made public complaints about having to work with such difficult economic constraints.

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Leading environmental organizations are calling for the absolute rejection of an urgent bill approved yesterday in a first reading by the Chamber of Deputies that affects the limits of the National Park of the East as established under Law 202-04. In a press release, the organizations say the intent is to exclude areas of the park that have been sold to Italian investors in violation of Dominican laws. The release criticizes these being sold at the price of a dead cat to the would-be developers. The release calls it new evidence of the moral failure of Dominican institutions, whose representatives seem to act in defense of interests that are divorced from those of the national interest and are instead at the service of capitals of dubious origin.
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The organizations say that purchasers of lots Nos. 92-H, 92-N, 92-P, 92-Z in the municipality of Boca de Yuma, companies Fulcasa [...]

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Vincent Li will not be walking free any time soon, says an expert on issues involving mental illness. Annette Osted, executive director of the College of Registered Psychiatric Nurses of Manitoba, said it will be years before Li could even be considered stable enough to be moved from the most secure areas of the Selkirk Mental Health Centre.

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THE Foreign Office tonight expressed deep sadness at news that Zimbabwe Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s wife Susan had been killed in a car crash.

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