Dolores Vicioso – Page 267

President Luis Abinader indeed has a very expansive worldview. Much like former President Leonel Fernandez back in the late 1990s, when the latter proposed to turn Santo Domingo into “a little New York” and proceeded to build the Santo Domingo Metro system, now Luis Abinader wants the Dominican Republic to become a player in the …

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President Luis Abinader was at the Lake Lucerne area in Switzerland on 15 and 16 June 2024 to attend the Swiss Peace Summit on Ukraine. President Abinader was accompanied by Foreign Minister Robert Alvarez. The Presidency reported that President Luis Abinader during his turn at the working session on food safety, chaired by the President …

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The Dominican Republic’s Central Electoral Board (JCE) is in the process of awarding a contract for the production of over eight million new identity cards, according to a story in Diario Libre. The new ID cards will replace the current ones, which have been in use since 2014. The JCE has not yet announced an …

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For the first time in history, a Dominican government agency has carried out a census to determine what property the government owns. The agency, Bienes Nacionales (National Assets) presented the results of the First National Census of State Real Estate Assets, and the numbers are staggering, even in this day and age of billions and …

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The Ministry of Public Works (MOPC) has announced a major project to refurbish nearly 500 of the nation’s 2,264 bridges. Over RD$7 billion would be invested. While not all of the bridges of the Dominican Republic are large, such as those over the Ozama, Isabela, or Yaque del Norte rivers, there are thousands of smaller …

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At a time when the government is taking actions for a major fiscal reform, Governor of the Central Bank Hector Valdez Albizu and Minister of Industry & Commerce Victor (Ito) Bisono presented findings on the importance of the MSMEs (MIPYMES in Spanish). Traditionally in the Dominican Republic, fiscal regimes has been drafted focused on taxation …

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The executive director of the governing board of the Climate Investment Funds (CIF) Tariye Gbadegesin announced on 13 June 2024, Climate Investment Funds for US$30 million are approved for the funding of “from ridge to reef” activities in the Yuna watershed in the Dominican Republic. Gbadegesin applauded the Dominican Republic’s leadership in climate action. She …

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Minister of Housing Carlos Bonilla says the major delays in the completing of the Luis E. Aybar Medical City are because the builder, Consorcio Consmara-Seminsa has not fulfilled the contractual obligations despite multiple binding agreements to the effect. After almost four years in charge, the Ministry of Housing has yet to be successful in advancing …

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For the first time, the Dominican Republic has been elected to sit on the board of the UNESCO Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage. This was announced by the Dominican ministries of Culture and Foreign Relations. UNESCO, the United Nations Education, Science and Cultural Organization, is the UN agency that assists educational …

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