2005 – Page 68

“To the rhythm of the Caribbean III” is the title of artist Johnny Segura’s tenth individual exhibition at Santo Domingo’s Cuesta Bookstore. This exhibition includes small-format pieces in different media, including paintings, sculptures and drawings, and presents the artist’s technical mastery of different styles and techniques. The artist was born in Nizao and studied at …

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More than 400 dancers will perform onstage in the super-production of Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake, to be presented by Ballet Clasico Alina Abreu, from the 28th to the 30th of October at the National Theater. This work is a dramatic ballet in four acts and is considered the most popular classical ballet. On Friday …

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The Dominican Republic has failed to provide the information on eight of the points set out in the International Monetary Fund letter of intent, but, during the first two reviews of the agreement, it has asked for extensions or permission to provide the data at a later date. According to Diario Libre, the new letter …

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Juan Hernandez, the director general of Internal Revenue, has told Congress that in order to become more efficient, the Internal Revenue Department (IR) needed more teeth in the legislation that punishes tax evaders. According to Listin Diario, Hernandez wants Congress to pass the proposed law that will make tax evasion a criminal offense, and give …

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Tourism Minister Felix Jimenez announced yesterday that the government would modify the three laws that provide incentives for the tourism industry. However, he did reassure that the special benefits and tax exemptions for all-inclusive hotels, marinas, convention centers and theme parks would be maintained. The plan is to avoid a stalemate in the sector, and …

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The Central Electoral Board (JCE) and the major political parties have agreed on a time line for the 2006 congressional and municipal elections. As part of the process, a commission from the JCE traveled to Brazil to begin the process of acquiring 3,000 electronic voting machines for the upcoming elections. There will be close to …

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Five men who traveled to Europe on diplomatic passports, purportedly as members of different city councils, had to turn themselves in to the Dominican consulate in Genoa, Italy. They had tried, unsuccessfully to obtain work, and ended up sleeping out in the open. They begged the consul, Mercedes Brito, to send them back to the …

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Today’s edition of the widely read column takes on the electricity sector and the comments made by the Presidential Minister for Technical Affairs, Temistocles Montas. It seems that everything that comes from that sector is bad news. Yesterday, Montas confessed that things had got “much worse” since the PLD government started the privatization process in …

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The president of the Central Electoral Board, Luis Arias, has said that late birth declarations are a “national calamity”, and promised that the creation of a new unit of the JCE would deal exclusively with the problem. At the same time, according to El Caribe, Arias denied that there were as many as two million …

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Colonel Juan Geronimo Brown Perez, the commander of the “Safe Barrio” pilot project still has to answer to the courts for his alleged part in the case involving the illegal use of recovered stolen vehicles. The Prosecutor’s office still has his case on the books. Due to resolution 462-2003 of the National District Fifth Court …

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