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The Miami Herald reports on the plight of Haitians who encounter hardships when migrating to the DR. The newspaper highlights their worse situation at home and also focuses on the high social cost to the DR of the massive immigration of impoverished people and the Dominican government’s efforts to improve living conditions in Haiti. “We …

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Conservation International, The New York Botanical Garden, The Cornell Biodiversity Laboratory, the Punta Cana Ecological Foundation and the Ministry of the Environment will host an ecological conference to address urgent biodiversity issues in the Caribbean. The conference will be held 26-29 July in Punta Cana. It will focus on the fact that only 11.3% of …

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The government announced reaching an agreement with most private generators for the payment of debts for US$63.6 million during a three-year period. The money would be primarily deducted from the 50% share of the state in privatized power companies. The agreement is expected to diminish blackouts. The agreement establishes the government will pay: Electricidad de …

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The Direccion General de Impuestos Internos (DGII) had collected RD$15,656 million as of 30 June 2001, 30.64% or RD$3,672 million more than revenues for the first six months last year. The government income tax department says that the collections reflect results of the applying of 1.5% on gross sales.

El Caribe reports that it is likely that the presidential commission appointed to propose changes to the Constitution will recommend reducing the 50%+1 vote requirement to win the presidency in the first round to 45%. Agripino Núñez Collado, coordinator of the commission said that there was consensus on this point. El Caribe says that victory …

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The Senate passed a bill that reforms the existing Freedom of Press Law. The new bill seeks to modernize the freedom of press law and incorporates principles agreed upon in the Chapultepec Declaration of the Interamerican Press Association in 1994. See http://www.sipiapa.org/projects/chapul-declaration.cfm The new bill rules that every person has the right to seek and …

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The migration bill recently deposited in the Congress could motivate increased Haitian migration, observes a report in El Caribe. The bill incorporates legal mechanisms that would make the deporting of Haitians very difficult. While the bill authorizes the deportation of illegal foreigners, it is neither obligatory nor automatic. Foreigners have the right to a lawyer …

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The Pedro Henriquez Ureña University (UNPHU), the Santo Domingo Institute of Human Rights (IDHSD) and the Military Institute of Human Rights (IMDH) announce the first human rights university course. The 56-hour course will take place over a three-month period at the Instituto Militar de Derechos Humanos on the second floor of the Instituto Cartografico Military …

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Santiago will host an important regional conference on earthquakes 25-27 July. Engineer Rafael Corominas Pepin, one of the nation’s leading experts on earthquakes, said that the conference will present the recent experiences of Mexico, Venezuela and Costa Rica regarding the reinforcing of buildings in order to prevent major disasters during an earthquake. Corominas explained that …

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