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Culture Minister Tony Raful announced that the carnival of Santo Domingo will take place Sunday, 2 March starting at 2pm on the Malecon. A new commission will organize the carnival events this year, headed by Raful, and will include the participation of the ministries of tourism and youth, the city government of Santo Domingo and …

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The municipal council of the city of Santo Domingo has announced that by the end of the month, George Washington Avenue, popularly known as the Malecon, will become a pedestrian walkway from the Obelisk, near Francisco J. Peynado Street, until Maximo Gomez Avenue. This stretch of roadway includes many restaurants, bars and fast-food establishments as …

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In yesterday?s DR1 News, the central government of the Dominican Government was referred to as the ?federal government.? The Dominican Republic is not a federal government, but rather a republic with a central government. The federalist ideas were dismissed in the 1855 Constitutional Convention in Moca. Likewise, in the Friday, 10 January issue, DR1 reported …

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The Direcci?n General de Impuestos Internos, the governmental tax department, announced that wages of up to RD$11,605 a month will not be subject to taxation. Each year in January, the department applies an inflation adjustment mechanism to its system to establish the levels of income from which taxes are levied. The new amount represents an …

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The Consumer Price Index for 2002 ended at 10.5 percent, according to the Central Bank, and up from 4.38 percent in 2001. The CPI increase is attributed to the devaluation of the peso (25%), the increase in the power tariffs (averaging 49%) and multiple increases in the price of fuel, with the greatest increases occurring …

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With the market having shifted to a rate of RD$23 to US$1, President Hipolito Mejia says that he would like the dollar to be set at a rate of RD$20 to US$1. President Mejia, nevertheless, said that the Monetary Board would determine at what price the rate is set.  Meanwhile, business sectors have criticized the …

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Superintendent of Power Julio Cross told El Caribe that as of this month users should begin to receive credits on their bills for hours of blackouts suffered. He said that the Superintendence has installed a system called ?escada? that permits it to determine the origin and cause of a blackout. Cross also says that power …

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In two consecutive readings on Friday, the Senate approved the 2003 National Budget of RD$83 billion, the same total requested by the government, without any major changes.  El Caribe newspaper reports that to get the congressmen to approve the budget, the Executive Branch nevertheless had to redistribute RD$62 million among non-governmental agencies mostly belonging to …

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At the start of government, the Mejia administration shortened from 30 days to 15 days the payment period for public employees to increase the cash flow of the workers. But for many it is not a matter of getting paid twice or month or once a month, but of getting paid at all. Diario Libre …

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The Corporacion de Acueducto y Alcantarillado de Santo Domingo (CAASD) says that aside from wasteful water habits and leaks in cisterns and pipes, which greatly account for inordinate levels of water consumption, one may also attribute the excessive waste to the inefficiency of toilets. Julio Suero Marranzini, director of the city water and sewage department, …

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