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    Post DR-CAFTA / Investment

    our company put together a business plan for Free Trade of the Americas 3 or 4 years ago. FTAA fell through. plan b was cafta-dr after we saw it's development. we have a meeting next week to setup how the first few millions of investment will be arranged. obviously nothing will happen until all...
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    Project to Bring ML Baseball Spring Training to DR

    i am putting the finishing touches on a business plan to bring major league baseball back to my city here in canada. without giving too much away, part of that plan includes establishing spring training facilities for the 3 canadian major baseball franchises in the dominican republic. yes, 3...
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    More on Hotel Purchases in Samana

    http://www.bahia-principe.com/ingles/noticia_ampliada27.html
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    Land Titles after Trujillo

    i heard a story recently and i hope that i understoodd the "facts" correctly. during trujillo's time alot of his cronies had huge tracts of land and most of the ordinary folk had no land of their own. after trujillo, perhaps when the PRD first came to power after trujillo, those huge tracts of...
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    Montreal's Annual Dominican Parade / August 21st

    http://desfilefestivaldominicano.com
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    Samana-Santo Domingo Highway Update

    http://www.hoy.com.do/app/article.aspx?id=47531
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    Por fin! Visas to Canada after 4 long years!

    For you who know me; for you who want to shoot me; for you who owe our bar in las galeras a pint or two....we finally have our visa approval in writing for my wife and her 4 kids...our other kids are getting their canuck citizenship in the coming weeks. it's a long story. so much time wasted...
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    Quebec Immigration Wait

    Would someone who has gone through it pleas tell me what the approximate time frame is from the time one receives Quebec Immigration Selection approval and the time to when the Canadian Embassy in Santo Domingo receives from the Canadian Embassy in Port-au-Prince the actual visa and the call...
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    Festival de Merengue de Montreal July 23-24, 2005 / Aventura & Rubby Perez

    http://www.festivalmerenguedemontreal.com
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    Festival Merengue de Montreal / Clip from 2004

    http://www.tenhon.ca/vt/merengue.html el canario gave an awesome show! www.festivalmerenguedemontreal.com site seems to be down. i assume that it's under construction for upcoming festival this summer. be there!
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    Bay of Pigs filming in Dom Rep

    i found this on a film forum. seems new that was reported in El Caribe was false, however i did see this on the internet, that the film would be done by Ron Howard's Imagine Entertainment (24, Cinderella Man etc.) http://www.thezreview.co.uk/comingsoon/b/bayofpigs.htm does anybody have any...
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    maritza / quebec pop star with dominican roots

    http://www.qim.com/artistes/biographie.asp?artistid=605
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    Kitchener Waterloo Intl Airport

    Had a quick tour of this new intl airport in K-W area of southwestern, ontario (canada). come this winter, the carriers going there will be offering direct flights to caribbean, including one assumes, the DR. likely suspects will be skyservice, air transat. convenient for avoiding toronto for...
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    car import with a twist

    i have a friend who wants to import a car to dr for business purposes. he doesn't have or want permanent residency. he doesn't want to get burnt by high import duties and taxes. if he were to sell the car to my wife, a dominican, then she flip it back to him in dr, would that work to avoid...
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    Transfer of Land Sale Profit to 3rd country

    let's take a hypothetical situation: my wife is dominican. she has permanent residency in canada as well as a bank account in her name. she sells her land in the dr for a 6-figure sum to a foreigner, let's say in europe. are there any legal ramifications, financial penalties if she has the...
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    neurologist

    can anyone recommend a good neurologist in the country? santo domingo is fine. my teenage stepson had a motorcycle accident a year ago. no helmet. he came out of it ok after a few months of healing but seems to have some lingering effects in his head. would just like to run some tests to see if...
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    Samana Airport(s) Update

    http://ifcln001.worldbank.org/ifcext/pressroom/ifcpressroom.nsf/PressRelease?openform&8189C194699675FF85256FB70060462D :pirate: