Education signs with free zones, skills to be taught
Vargas Maldonado signs agreement with Morocco
Titanic job and fast garbage clean up
Vice President Margarita Cedeño sides with Congresswoman Faride Raful
Labor discussions set to restart
Medics don’t like to be named cartel
Police sergeant commits suicide in US Embassy, sexual harassment suspected as motive
No to pimping: raid shuts down two nightclubs in Puerto Plata
Gold medals in the Central American Games
National Symphony Orchestra opens 8 August 2018
Education signs with free zones, skills to be taught
Education Minister Andrés Navarro; Federico Dominguez Aristy, president of the Association of Free Zones (Adozona) and Luisa Fernandez Duran, executive director of the National Council of Export Free Zones (CNZFE), have agreed to implement training programs in manufacturing and competitive services for high school students in public and private schools. As part of the agreement, the Ministry of Education also committed to develop polytechnic schools in areas near the industrial free zones. Vocational training at the schools would be provided by the Institute for Technical-Professional Training (Infotep).
The agreement also calls for high school students near the industrial free zones to visit the industrial parks in their two last years of high school and for construction of day care centers in the nearby communities.
He said the agreement seeks to reverse the present situation in which 80% of high school graduates graduate without any specific skills that would help them get a job. On the other hand, polytechnic school grads, 19% of all graduating high schoolers, possess trade skills that are in demand throughout the country.
Navarro highlighted: “What we have to do is ensure that the country develops in a framework of comprehensive planning, in a framework of public-private relationships. Public-private partnerships today are key to the development of any nation. "
Meanwhile, Domínguez Aristy, president of Adozona, considered that the agreement "is the most important that we have signed with the state as a public-private alliance, which we are sure will catalyze a revolution from the basic levels in public schools and private schools.”
http://hoy.com.do/andres-navarro-fi...-con-zonas-francas-para-mejorar-politecnicos/
Vargas Maldonado signs agreement with Morocco
Foreign Minister Miguel Vargas Maldonado was in Rabat, Morocco last week and on 20 July 2018, signed an agreement with Moroccan Prime Minister Saad Eddine El Othmani to strengthen bilateral ties. Vargas was in Morocco on his official visit from 18-21 July. The two officials looked into signing of cooperation agreements in tourism, fisheries and diplomatic cooperation, a statement from the Prime Minister’s office said.
They also agreed to broaden the scope of bilateral cooperation agreements to include promising sectors such as air transport services, customs cooperation and investment support, the statement added.
In 2004, Morocco's King Mohammed VI visited the Dominican Republic.
http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-07/21/c_137338502.htm
Titanic job and fast garbage clean up
Residents in the National District awoke on Wednesday, 18 July 2018 to discover there were several beaches along the shoreline when the media focused on how tons of plastic garbage had been deposited on these. The monster wave of garbage flowed downstream from the Ozama River to the Caribbean Sea. Efforts had been on the way to collect the garbage up river, but an unexplained lack of coordination, led to the barge bridge to be lifted sending the tons of garbage to the shoreline. The intense rains on Tuesday had sent all the trash down the river. The invasion of plastics put into evidence the lack of civic and environmental education.
By Sunday, 22 July, the garbage had all been cleared from the Plaza de Montesinos beach and final efforts were carried out to remove the remaining garbage from the beach at Fortaleza San Gil. It was a costly titanic job, undertaken by the city government of the National District (Santo Domingo), the most affected, with the backing of the Ministry of Public Works.
On Sunday, the Santo Domingo Hotels Association (AHSD) congratulated the effort of the city government and the Ministry of Public Works. And city residents that thronged by the thousands to see the deluge of garbage then rediscovered two golden sand beaches at Fortaleza San Gil and the Plaza Montesinos. The beaches are off limits for swimmers due to general water contamination.
Roberto Henriquez, president of AHSD, congratulated the authorities on the efficient and prompt effort to remove the wastes from the shoreline, especially from Playita de Montesinos that had received 80% of the wastes from the Greater Santo Domingo and Monte Plata provinces to the north.
https://noticiassin.com/republica-d...idades-la-limpieza-del-litoral-santo-domingo/
Vice President Margarita Cedeño sides with Congresswoman Faride Raful
After PRM opposition legislator Faride Raful presented controller general documentation regarding contract work allotted and paid to Joao Santana and his wife Monica Moura in year 2016, even when the later were in jail in Brazil sentenced in the Lavajato-Odebrecht corruption case, the PLD-majority Chamber of Deputies denied her request for Congress to investigate. Instead, the young congresswoman endured numerous insults from her colleagues.
But Vice President Margarita Cedeño on Friday, tweeted her support to Raful’s request for a special commission to investigate the payments made to companies tied to Santana and his wife. In her tweet, Cedeño calls for respect for Raful and said that government officials must be held accountable. In her tweet, she stated: Faride Raful deserves all the respect in this debate that in the end enriches our democracy and the transparency that we have sowed in the governments of the PLD. Accountability is part of our responsibilities. Good for you, Faride Raful.
Raful responded with a tweet thanking the Vice President for expressing her respect of her rights as a citizen and congresswoman. “Hopefully, all your colleagues will assume the institutional role that corresponds to them, in favor of our democracy. My greetings," she wrote.
The president of the Chamber of Deputies, in his explanation on why the payments should not be investigated, had stated: “… history will take care to prove the falsity of all these accusations… “I adhere total and absolutely to the defense of the government and the Dominican Liberation Party.”
http://hoy.com.do/margarita-apoya-publicamente-a-faride/
https://www.diariolibre.com/opinion/en-directo/poderes-publicos-secuestrados-OF10408273
Labor discussions set to restart
The triad of Ministry of Labor, business and labor are expected to meet soon to retake talks for the amendments to the Labor Code. The talks stagnated two years ago.
Now representatives of businesses said they are making a new proposal to labor representatives as the discussions are scheduled to resume. Snags to the discussions in the past have been proposed changes to the severance provisions and flexibility of working hours. The labor representatives say that severance is not negotiable.
Business representatives say the changes are needed if more formal jobs are to be created.
https://www.diariolibre.com/economi...l-por-mas-empleos-o-menos-derechos-BF10405433
Medics don’t like to be named a cartel
The better known connotation for cartel is related to drug and arms organizations. But there is an economic definition, too.
In the English version, Wikipedia defines cartel as “a group of apparently independent producers whose goal is to increase their collective profits by means of price fixing, limiting supply, or other restrictive practices. Cartels typically control selling prices, but some are organized to control the prices of purchased inputs.
Dictionary focuses on the economic definition when it defines the term: “An international syndicate, combine, or trust formed especially to regulate prices and output in some field of business, or a coalition of political or special-interest groups having a common cause, as to encourage the passage of a certain law.
But when Diario Libre headlined its front page last week that the medics (Dominican Medical Guild) was going heads on against the health providers (ARS) and called these two cartels, the medics took exception and said the newspaper had gone too wrong.
Most people looked up the definition in Wikipedia in Spanish where the later is defined only as an organization of criminal groups, pointing to drug cartels. The Spanish Language Academy (RAE) instead gives two definitions, the second one seemingly ignored. The first spoke of the illicit organization with ties to drug or arms trafficking, but a second said it was an agreement among similar companies to avoid competition among these and regulate production, sales and prices in a determined field.
In an editorial on Monday, 23 July 2018, Adriano Miguel Tejada, executive editor of the newspaper highlighted that the Dominican Medical Guild (CMD) that protested the use of the word “cartel” “does not know how to read when their interests are affected.” He stressed that the 18 July 2018 cartel clearly made the point that they were not referring to individual physicians, but rather to the professional medical societies and the clinics that had created a cartel to confront the highly profitable ARS. He observed that in the effort both organizations, ARS and clinics, were disregarding the interests of the patients.
The editorialist said that Diario Libre has been one of the most aggressive critics of the ARS, because the later is a struggle for economic benefits fought by illicit means.
Tejada concludes that the medics should forget the threats to journalists –“hope they do not need a doctor”, and says that as he ages seeing them is unavoidable.
The physicians themselves and patients are the big losers. On the issue, Joel Rodriguez, president of the Dominican Association of Users of Social Security (Asodomuss) says that the impasse between the health providers (ARS and the private clinics (Andeclip) needs to be resolved by amending the Social Security Law 87-01 that dates back to 2001.
https://www.diariolibre.com/opinion/am/mi-respuesta-final-LF10407941
Police sergeant commits suicide in US Embassy, sexual harassment suspected as motive
The National Police have yet to disclose the name of the supervisor of late 33-year old Sargeant Anny Montero who on Friday, 20 July 2018, committed suicide by gunshot in a bathroom at the US Embassy. The brother of the deceased says she had complained of sexual harassment by her superior and said she couldn’t bear continuing to live. Spokesman for the Police, Frank Duran Feliz said the case is being investigated.
The woman, a 10-year veteran of Digesett (formally Amet), was a graduate in clinical psychology, and the only sister of seven brothers from San Juan de la Maguana. She leaves a seven-year old child.
Another brother said his sister was not the only victim, mentioning he knows of a work colleague of his sister who was also victim.
https://www.listindiario.com/la-rep...-antes-del-suicidio-no-quiero-seguir-viviendo
https://www.listindiario.com/la-rep...n-dice-aun-desconocen-quien-era-su-supervisor
No to pimping: raid shuts down two nightclubs in Puerto Plata
Dominican authorities raided around 10 nightclubs, closing two of them and arresting owners in Sosua and Cabarete, Puerto Plata. Attorney General Jean Alain Rodriguez said the authorities raided the centers where they rescued around 70 Dominican women who reportedly were being held against their will and forced to exercise sex work.
The Special Prosecutor's Office against the Illicit Trafficking of Migrants and Trafficking in Persons and the Prosecutor's Office of Puerto Plata, together with the Ministry of Defense, the Specialized Corps for Tourist Security (CESTUR), agents of the Criminal Investigation Unit (UIC) and members of the Army participated in the operation.
When offering the details of the operation through a press release, the Attorney General explained that the businesses closed are Restaurante Bar Pica Flor and Bar Restaurante Barrio Latino, located in the municipalities of Sosúa and Cabarete of Puerto Plata province, owned by the couple made up of Elvis. Henríquez Beatón, alias "El Peje", and Arisleida Pérez Vásquez.
https://www.listindiario.com/la-rep...rescatan-a-70-dominicanas-en-sosua-y-cabarete
https://dr1.com/forums/showthread.php/172532-prostitution-affects-tourism-in-sosua/page16
Gold medals in the Central American Games
DR ended the first week of competitions at the Central American & Caribbean Games in fifth place, behind Mexico, Colombia, Cuba and Venezuela. The DR has won three gold medals, 7 silver and 12 bronze medals, for a total 22 medals since the games opened on 19 July. The games will continue through 3 August 2018 in Barranquilla, Colombia.
The three gold medals were won by on Friday, 20 July 2018, by Luis García in weightlifting (56 kilos, new record 123 kilos), Bernardo Pie (54 kilos) in taekwondo and on Sunday, by Zacarias Bonnat in 85 kilos in weightlifting.
In other news stories on the sports games, the Dominican women’s volleyball team defeated Cuba 3-1 (25-18, 25-17, 20-25 and 25-17).
Newsworthy was the bronze medal won by Krystal Lara, born and trained in New York, and who studies at Northwestern University in Chicago, who became the first to compete for the Dominican Republic to win a medal in 28 years of participation in the regional games. In 2016, Lara had done the very difficult Olympic Trials time with 1:03.28.
http://hoy.com.do/las-reinasdelcaribe-vencen-3-1-a-cuba-en-los-juegos-centroamericanos/
http://hoy.com.do/doble-de-oro-garcia-y-pie-ponen-la-bandera-en-alto/
https://www.listindiario.com/el-dep...uma-8-medallas-es-quinta-en-medallero-general
http://eldia.com.do/zacarias-bonnat...-oro-en-juegos-centroamericanos-y-del-caribe/
https://colimdo.org/
https://womenintheworld.com/2016/03...mer-krystal-lara-prepares-for-olympic-trials/
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/27/...hought-swimming-lessons-were-a-good-idea.html
National Symphony Orchestra opens 8 August 2018
Culture Minister Eduardo Selman and Maestro Jose Antonio Molina, director of the National Symphony Orchestra announced the summer and fall concerts start with a first on Wednesday, 8 August 2018 and will continue on Wednesdays 5, and 19 September and 3, 17 and 31 October. The concerts are sponsored by Claro telecom.
Van Cliburn piano contest winner, Vadym Kholodenko will be performing as a soloist during the opening concert on 8 August. The opening night concert is named "Todo Tchaikovsky", and features the opening of Romeo and Juliet, the Concert No.1 for piano and orchestra and the Symphony No. 6 (Pathetique).
The concerts are dedicated to honor the memory of first violinist Pavle Vujcic who performed for three decades with the National Symphony Orchestra.
http://cultura.gob.do/index.php/not...n-presentan-detalles-temporada-sinfonica-2018
https://www.theguardian.com/music/t...uide-tchaikovsky-sixth-pathetique-tom-service
Vargas Maldonado signs agreement with Morocco
Titanic job and fast garbage clean up
Vice President Margarita Cedeño sides with Congresswoman Faride Raful
Labor discussions set to restart
Medics don’t like to be named cartel
Police sergeant commits suicide in US Embassy, sexual harassment suspected as motive
No to pimping: raid shuts down two nightclubs in Puerto Plata
Gold medals in the Central American Games
National Symphony Orchestra opens 8 August 2018
Education signs with free zones, skills to be taught
Education Minister Andrés Navarro; Federico Dominguez Aristy, president of the Association of Free Zones (Adozona) and Luisa Fernandez Duran, executive director of the National Council of Export Free Zones (CNZFE), have agreed to implement training programs in manufacturing and competitive services for high school students in public and private schools. As part of the agreement, the Ministry of Education also committed to develop polytechnic schools in areas near the industrial free zones. Vocational training at the schools would be provided by the Institute for Technical-Professional Training (Infotep).
The agreement also calls for high school students near the industrial free zones to visit the industrial parks in their two last years of high school and for construction of day care centers in the nearby communities.
He said the agreement seeks to reverse the present situation in which 80% of high school graduates graduate without any specific skills that would help them get a job. On the other hand, polytechnic school grads, 19% of all graduating high schoolers, possess trade skills that are in demand throughout the country.
Navarro highlighted: “What we have to do is ensure that the country develops in a framework of comprehensive planning, in a framework of public-private relationships. Public-private partnerships today are key to the development of any nation. "
Meanwhile, Domínguez Aristy, president of Adozona, considered that the agreement "is the most important that we have signed with the state as a public-private alliance, which we are sure will catalyze a revolution from the basic levels in public schools and private schools.”
http://hoy.com.do/andres-navarro-fi...-con-zonas-francas-para-mejorar-politecnicos/
Vargas Maldonado signs agreement with Morocco
Foreign Minister Miguel Vargas Maldonado was in Rabat, Morocco last week and on 20 July 2018, signed an agreement with Moroccan Prime Minister Saad Eddine El Othmani to strengthen bilateral ties. Vargas was in Morocco on his official visit from 18-21 July. The two officials looked into signing of cooperation agreements in tourism, fisheries and diplomatic cooperation, a statement from the Prime Minister’s office said.
They also agreed to broaden the scope of bilateral cooperation agreements to include promising sectors such as air transport services, customs cooperation and investment support, the statement added.
In 2004, Morocco's King Mohammed VI visited the Dominican Republic.
http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-07/21/c_137338502.htm
Titanic job and fast garbage clean up
Residents in the National District awoke on Wednesday, 18 July 2018 to discover there were several beaches along the shoreline when the media focused on how tons of plastic garbage had been deposited on these. The monster wave of garbage flowed downstream from the Ozama River to the Caribbean Sea. Efforts had been on the way to collect the garbage up river, but an unexplained lack of coordination, led to the barge bridge to be lifted sending the tons of garbage to the shoreline. The intense rains on Tuesday had sent all the trash down the river. The invasion of plastics put into evidence the lack of civic and environmental education.
By Sunday, 22 July, the garbage had all been cleared from the Plaza de Montesinos beach and final efforts were carried out to remove the remaining garbage from the beach at Fortaleza San Gil. It was a costly titanic job, undertaken by the city government of the National District (Santo Domingo), the most affected, with the backing of the Ministry of Public Works.
On Sunday, the Santo Domingo Hotels Association (AHSD) congratulated the effort of the city government and the Ministry of Public Works. And city residents that thronged by the thousands to see the deluge of garbage then rediscovered two golden sand beaches at Fortaleza San Gil and the Plaza Montesinos. The beaches are off limits for swimmers due to general water contamination.
Roberto Henriquez, president of AHSD, congratulated the authorities on the efficient and prompt effort to remove the wastes from the shoreline, especially from Playita de Montesinos that had received 80% of the wastes from the Greater Santo Domingo and Monte Plata provinces to the north.
https://noticiassin.com/republica-d...idades-la-limpieza-del-litoral-santo-domingo/
Vice President Margarita Cedeño sides with Congresswoman Faride Raful
After PRM opposition legislator Faride Raful presented controller general documentation regarding contract work allotted and paid to Joao Santana and his wife Monica Moura in year 2016, even when the later were in jail in Brazil sentenced in the Lavajato-Odebrecht corruption case, the PLD-majority Chamber of Deputies denied her request for Congress to investigate. Instead, the young congresswoman endured numerous insults from her colleagues.
But Vice President Margarita Cedeño on Friday, tweeted her support to Raful’s request for a special commission to investigate the payments made to companies tied to Santana and his wife. In her tweet, Cedeño calls for respect for Raful and said that government officials must be held accountable. In her tweet, she stated: Faride Raful deserves all the respect in this debate that in the end enriches our democracy and the transparency that we have sowed in the governments of the PLD. Accountability is part of our responsibilities. Good for you, Faride Raful.
Raful responded with a tweet thanking the Vice President for expressing her respect of her rights as a citizen and congresswoman. “Hopefully, all your colleagues will assume the institutional role that corresponds to them, in favor of our democracy. My greetings," she wrote.
The president of the Chamber of Deputies, in his explanation on why the payments should not be investigated, had stated: “… history will take care to prove the falsity of all these accusations… “I adhere total and absolutely to the defense of the government and the Dominican Liberation Party.”
http://hoy.com.do/margarita-apoya-publicamente-a-faride/
https://www.diariolibre.com/opinion/en-directo/poderes-publicos-secuestrados-OF10408273
Labor discussions set to restart
The triad of Ministry of Labor, business and labor are expected to meet soon to retake talks for the amendments to the Labor Code. The talks stagnated two years ago.
Now representatives of businesses said they are making a new proposal to labor representatives as the discussions are scheduled to resume. Snags to the discussions in the past have been proposed changes to the severance provisions and flexibility of working hours. The labor representatives say that severance is not negotiable.
Business representatives say the changes are needed if more formal jobs are to be created.
https://www.diariolibre.com/economi...l-por-mas-empleos-o-menos-derechos-BF10405433
Medics don’t like to be named a cartel
The better known connotation for cartel is related to drug and arms organizations. But there is an economic definition, too.
In the English version, Wikipedia defines cartel as “a group of apparently independent producers whose goal is to increase their collective profits by means of price fixing, limiting supply, or other restrictive practices. Cartels typically control selling prices, but some are organized to control the prices of purchased inputs.
Dictionary focuses on the economic definition when it defines the term: “An international syndicate, combine, or trust formed especially to regulate prices and output in some field of business, or a coalition of political or special-interest groups having a common cause, as to encourage the passage of a certain law.
But when Diario Libre headlined its front page last week that the medics (Dominican Medical Guild) was going heads on against the health providers (ARS) and called these two cartels, the medics took exception and said the newspaper had gone too wrong.
Most people looked up the definition in Wikipedia in Spanish where the later is defined only as an organization of criminal groups, pointing to drug cartels. The Spanish Language Academy (RAE) instead gives two definitions, the second one seemingly ignored. The first spoke of the illicit organization with ties to drug or arms trafficking, but a second said it was an agreement among similar companies to avoid competition among these and regulate production, sales and prices in a determined field.
In an editorial on Monday, 23 July 2018, Adriano Miguel Tejada, executive editor of the newspaper highlighted that the Dominican Medical Guild (CMD) that protested the use of the word “cartel” “does not know how to read when their interests are affected.” He stressed that the 18 July 2018 cartel clearly made the point that they were not referring to individual physicians, but rather to the professional medical societies and the clinics that had created a cartel to confront the highly profitable ARS. He observed that in the effort both organizations, ARS and clinics, were disregarding the interests of the patients.
The editorialist said that Diario Libre has been one of the most aggressive critics of the ARS, because the later is a struggle for economic benefits fought by illicit means.
Tejada concludes that the medics should forget the threats to journalists –“hope they do not need a doctor”, and says that as he ages seeing them is unavoidable.
The physicians themselves and patients are the big losers. On the issue, Joel Rodriguez, president of the Dominican Association of Users of Social Security (Asodomuss) says that the impasse between the health providers (ARS and the private clinics (Andeclip) needs to be resolved by amending the Social Security Law 87-01 that dates back to 2001.
https://www.diariolibre.com/opinion/am/mi-respuesta-final-LF10407941
Police sergeant commits suicide in US Embassy, sexual harassment suspected as motive
The National Police have yet to disclose the name of the supervisor of late 33-year old Sargeant Anny Montero who on Friday, 20 July 2018, committed suicide by gunshot in a bathroom at the US Embassy. The brother of the deceased says she had complained of sexual harassment by her superior and said she couldn’t bear continuing to live. Spokesman for the Police, Frank Duran Feliz said the case is being investigated.
The woman, a 10-year veteran of Digesett (formally Amet), was a graduate in clinical psychology, and the only sister of seven brothers from San Juan de la Maguana. She leaves a seven-year old child.
Another brother said his sister was not the only victim, mentioning he knows of a work colleague of his sister who was also victim.
https://www.listindiario.com/la-rep...-antes-del-suicidio-no-quiero-seguir-viviendo
https://www.listindiario.com/la-rep...n-dice-aun-desconocen-quien-era-su-supervisor
No to pimping: raid shuts down two nightclubs in Puerto Plata
Dominican authorities raided around 10 nightclubs, closing two of them and arresting owners in Sosua and Cabarete, Puerto Plata. Attorney General Jean Alain Rodriguez said the authorities raided the centers where they rescued around 70 Dominican women who reportedly were being held against their will and forced to exercise sex work.
The Special Prosecutor's Office against the Illicit Trafficking of Migrants and Trafficking in Persons and the Prosecutor's Office of Puerto Plata, together with the Ministry of Defense, the Specialized Corps for Tourist Security (CESTUR), agents of the Criminal Investigation Unit (UIC) and members of the Army participated in the operation.
When offering the details of the operation through a press release, the Attorney General explained that the businesses closed are Restaurante Bar Pica Flor and Bar Restaurante Barrio Latino, located in the municipalities of Sosúa and Cabarete of Puerto Plata province, owned by the couple made up of Elvis. Henríquez Beatón, alias "El Peje", and Arisleida Pérez Vásquez.
https://www.listindiario.com/la-rep...rescatan-a-70-dominicanas-en-sosua-y-cabarete
https://dr1.com/forums/showthread.php/172532-prostitution-affects-tourism-in-sosua/page16
Gold medals in the Central American Games
DR ended the first week of competitions at the Central American & Caribbean Games in fifth place, behind Mexico, Colombia, Cuba and Venezuela. The DR has won three gold medals, 7 silver and 12 bronze medals, for a total 22 medals since the games opened on 19 July. The games will continue through 3 August 2018 in Barranquilla, Colombia.
The three gold medals were won by on Friday, 20 July 2018, by Luis García in weightlifting (56 kilos, new record 123 kilos), Bernardo Pie (54 kilos) in taekwondo and on Sunday, by Zacarias Bonnat in 85 kilos in weightlifting.
In other news stories on the sports games, the Dominican women’s volleyball team defeated Cuba 3-1 (25-18, 25-17, 20-25 and 25-17).
Newsworthy was the bronze medal won by Krystal Lara, born and trained in New York, and who studies at Northwestern University in Chicago, who became the first to compete for the Dominican Republic to win a medal in 28 years of participation in the regional games. In 2016, Lara had done the very difficult Olympic Trials time with 1:03.28.
http://hoy.com.do/las-reinasdelcaribe-vencen-3-1-a-cuba-en-los-juegos-centroamericanos/
http://hoy.com.do/doble-de-oro-garcia-y-pie-ponen-la-bandera-en-alto/
https://www.listindiario.com/el-dep...uma-8-medallas-es-quinta-en-medallero-general
http://eldia.com.do/zacarias-bonnat...-oro-en-juegos-centroamericanos-y-del-caribe/
https://colimdo.org/
https://womenintheworld.com/2016/03...mer-krystal-lara-prepares-for-olympic-trials/
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/27/...hought-swimming-lessons-were-a-good-idea.html
National Symphony Orchestra opens 8 August 2018
Culture Minister Eduardo Selman and Maestro Jose Antonio Molina, director of the National Symphony Orchestra announced the summer and fall concerts start with a first on Wednesday, 8 August 2018 and will continue on Wednesdays 5, and 19 September and 3, 17 and 31 October. The concerts are sponsored by Claro telecom.
Van Cliburn piano contest winner, Vadym Kholodenko will be performing as a soloist during the opening concert on 8 August. The opening night concert is named "Todo Tchaikovsky", and features the opening of Romeo and Juliet, the Concert No.1 for piano and orchestra and the Symphony No. 6 (Pathetique).
The concerts are dedicated to honor the memory of first violinist Pavle Vujcic who performed for three decades with the National Symphony Orchestra.
http://cultura.gob.do/index.php/not...n-presentan-detalles-temporada-sinfonica-2018
https://www.theguardian.com/music/t...uide-tchaikovsky-sixth-pathetique-tom-service
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