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The United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization has included the Dominican Republic in its third proclamation of Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity announced this week. Included is the cocolo dancing drama tradition of San Pedro de Macoris. The tradition is the heritage of the migration of West Indians to the …

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The much debated tax reform bill passed its first vote in the Chamber of Deputies last night with a majority vote of 121 yeas out of the 131 deputies present, as reported in Listin Diario. Today it has to pass the final vote in the Chamber. The bill excludes taxing sugar, molasses, oil, coffee, cocoa, …

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Among the substantial changes introduced in the tax reform bill is the increase of income tax to 30% for earners of more than RD$900,000.01 annually and the extension of the application of this tariff until 2011. Listin Diario reports that it also includes taxes that were not part of the consensus established by the National …

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Both the government and the PLD have reacted against US ambassador Hans Hertell’s speech at the American Chamber of Commerce, where he called for stronger border controls to prevent drug trafficking, demanded transparency in the Metro project and complained, among other things, about corruption and the impunity that protects it, as reported in Listin Diario. …

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Bear Stearns and Standard & Poor’s have issued their monthly reviews of the Dominican economic situation. Standard & Poor’s Rating Service released a report yesterday that looks at the economic challenges facing the signatories of the DR-CAFTA free trade agreement. The report looks at the complementary agenda at the core of DR-CAFTA and looks at …

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Articles 63, 80 and 143 of the Tax Code (Law 11-92) have been declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court of Justice (SCJ). Listin Diario reports that the decision is contained in several sentences resulting from unconstitutionality recourses several entities and individuals have presented against the law. The articles revoked established that people who felt that …

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During the first ten months of this year, the Tax Department (DGII) collected more than RD$62.624 billion, 11.08% (RD$6.846 billion) more than estimated (RD$61.778 billion). Listin Diario reports that the highest growth took place in income tax, with RD$4.271 billion. Last month, the DGII collected RD$6.222 billion, equivalent to a 34.28% increase compared to the …

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The Ministry of Public Health has delivered 100 incubators, 350 cradles, 48 monitors, 23 laryngoscopes and 329 helmets as part of an effort to reduce child mortality to 17 per thousand by 2015. Listin Diario reports that the hospitals receiving the equipment were Nuestra Senora de la Altagracia, Robert Reid Cabral, San Lorenzo in Los …

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PRD President Ramon Alburquerque is warning that minister Diandino Pena is using billions of pesos “mysteriously and without control” in the construction of the Metro, and is asking President Leonel Fernandez to halt work on the project, as reported in Diario Libre. He also mentioned the possibility of having Congress question Pena for allegedly using …

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Telecommunications Institute (INDOTEL) Director Jose Rafael Vargas has said there is an industry of libel and professionals who extort others through telephone espionage. He stated that phone tapping is penalized with imprisonment and fines, according to El Caribe. “No company, institution, or person in this country is authorized, no matter how powerful they may be, …

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