2008 – Page 60

Young singer Karina Pasian, a New Yorker of Dominican descent, has hit it big with her voice and has been rewarded with six Grammy award nominations for her first album, “First Love.” She has been nominated for Album of the Year, Artist of the Year, Best Singer, Song of the Year, Best New Female Artist …

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Most of the country’s business leaders are in the dark about the details of a proposal sent by the Executive Branch and currently in Congress, aimed at financing the Central Bank’s estimated budget deficit for this year. The presidents of the National Business Council (CONEP), Lisandro Macarrulla, the Young Entrepreneurs Association (ANJE), Pablo Piantini Hazoury, …

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Chamber of Deputies president Julio Cesar Valentin has confirmed that his fellow party members are under pressure from the United States to reject the bill that would permit the shooting down of aircraft suspected of carrying drugs into Dominican territory. Valentin said that, just like the Dominican Foreign Ministry, Chamber of Deputies members have received …

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Minister of Labor Max Puig has asked Trade Unions, as represented by the CNUS, and private sector managers to get together and seek an agreement on a general increase in the minimum wage, which he described as ‘a legitimate demand’. As reported in El Nuevo Diario, Puig reminded reporters that management has said that there …

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The Dominican Republic was included in the list of five of the 20 Latin American and the Caribbean countries that have had “major setbacks” in their strengths and weaknesses on the business scene, according to the Microfinance 2008 report developed by the Economist magazine’s Economic Intelligence Unit for the Inter-American Development Bank’s Multilateral Investment fund …

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Former head of the National Business Association (CONEP) Elena Viyella de Paliza has presented reporters with the idea that all the country’s economic sectors should get together and thrash out the solutions to the main problems affecting the DR. Speaking to reporters from Hoy newspaper yesterday, Viyella said that the country is facing very big …

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The Dominican Republic presented an overview of its competitiveness focus to the plenary assembly of The Competitiveness Institute Conference in Cape Town, South Africa on Wednesday, 29 October. Jaime Moreno, advisor to the National Competitiveness Council spoke of the priority that has been given to developing ongoing dialogue and trust for building social capital to …

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Private clinic owners told Listin Diario yesterday that they are thinking about canceling the contracts they have with six Health Insurance Providers (ARS) to provide health services to Family Health Plan (SFS) members. Rafael Mena, the head of the Association of Private Clinics (Adeclip) said that the system has not complied with the Social Security …

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Over the last three months, 49 members of the Metropolitan Transport Authority (AMET) have been injured in traffic accidents, hit by drivers after breaking Traffic Law 241. The agents were hurt while directing traffic on the avenues of Santo Domingo and in other cities in the country, according to a press release from the AMET …

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More than poverty and desert, the southwest of the Dominican Republic has beaches with spectacular crystal clear waters, greenery and red evening skies. “What are you going to the south for?” This is the question most people ask when someone says that they are planning a vacation there rather than the idyllic east or the …

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