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Mother’s Day in the Dominican Republic is the last Sunday in the month, or 27 May this year. The Customs Department announces that during the month of May returning Dominican expatriates can bring in a selection of appliances without having to pay duties. The duty free gifts program is open to all Dominicans who have …

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More than 50 minors were taken into custody of the Police after they were found in nightclubs in Santo Domingo during a raid that took place over the weekend. The Public Relations Department of the Police says they also arrested 43 prostitutes, 13 homosexuals, five owners of businesses and several military and police agents. Judiciary …

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The Listin Diario newspaper points out there were 12 victims of violence over the weekend, adding to 28 other violent deaths over the past eight weeks. El Siglo newspaper points out that 102 civilians and several policemen were killed, primarily in confrontations with the Police and the Armed Forces at "colmadones" (corner grocery shops turned …

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Economist Frederic Emam Zade, director of economic studies for the Fundación Global y Desarrollo, warned that the government runs the risk of issuing the sovereign bonds and having to discount them at half price due to the lack of confidence of foreign investors in the Dominican economy. He said that the government’s efforts to discredit …

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The National Council of Business (CONEP) has proposed a 50% reduction in the tariffs prior to the entrance into effect of the GATT tariffs valorization system. The application of GATT tariffs code will increase taxable values of imports. This could bring a television set that sold for RD$5,000 to sell for RD$9,000 if the tariffs …

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The former Commissioner for the Reform and Modernization of the State, Onofre Rojas lamented that the RD$86 million investment the state made from 1996-2000 in the modernization and automating of government offices is being thrown in the trash by the present administration. El Caribe recently covered a report on how the government office hustlers, known …

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Francisco Dominguez Brito, executive director of the Foundation for Institutionality and Justice (Finjus) advocates the need for a mixed party body of the National Public Administration Personnel Office and the National Institute of Public Administration to create a true public server corps. This would avoid that every four years a whole new public service personnel …

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