Tuesday sales
Plaza Lama supermarket is advertising fruits and vegetable sales with tomatoes for RD$14.95lb, onions for RD$14.95lb, eggplants for RD$7.95lb, carrots for RD$13.95lb and cantaloupe’s for RD$21.95lb.
Aguilas and Licey get ready
The Aguilas Cibaenas, representing the DR in this year’s Serie del Caribe tournament and Licey, an alternate team, have made their roster selections and Santiago is putting the final touches in preparation for the highly anticipated post-season games. To bolster the Aguilas, they chose from the Gigantes del Cibao, Azucareros, Estrellas Orientales and Escogido: Brayan …
Government hauls it in
The Dominican treasury must be bursting at the seams. In the first twenty-two days of the year, the government collected almost RD$17.5 billion. Over the first fifteen days, the government took in RD$10.9 billion, a 12% increase over estimates for the date and 21% above last year’s haul for the same period. According to a …
Juan Pablo Duarte, founder of the DR
A mass at the Santa Barbara church in Old Santo Domingo kicked off activities commemorating the celebration of Duarte’s birthday on Saturday. Thousands of schoolchildren across the country walked, marched or ambled to the local Duarte statue and put down floral wreaths. In Santo Domingo, school children went to the Altar de la Patria in …
Farm sector gets a break
As part of the government’s response to recent important setbacks for the country’s agricultural sector, the Minister of Agriculture issued a joint declaration with the Tax Office (DGII) granting relief from the payments of anticipated tax on sales for the entire agriculture sector. Minister Salvador Jimenez said that the measure was aimed at helping farmers …
Santiago is safer
According to reports, Santiago has become a safer city. This good news is due in large part to more motorized patrols and the willingness of neighborhood associations to help control the criminals who used to roam their streets. Over the last 14 months, in part fueled by the senseless death of young Vanessa Ramirez, who …
Poultry farmers ask for help
Faced with the import ban from Haiti, Dominican poultry farmers are asking the government to help them export their meat and eggs to places like Venezuela and Cuba. The Poultry Producers Association of Moca and Licey al Medio has asked the government to purchase 20 million chickens and ten million eggs at cost price. According …
Bad day at the hospital
The recent deaths in childbirth at the Altagracia Maternity Hospital in Santo Domingo were unprecedented, according to doctors on duty there. The fact that four young mothers died in just one day was unheard of in the hospital’s 60-year history. According to Hoy newspaper, the National Committee for Maternal Mortality is looking into the cases. …
Spain gives major Olga assistance
The Spanish International Development Agency (AECID) has announced a RD$750 million donation to the Dominican Republic. The money is to be used to fund projects for the victims of Noel and Olga, the two tropical storms that caused major damage to many parts of the country in late 2007. Juan Pablo de Laiglesias Gonzalez de …
Hardware sales are down a lot
Hardware stores are reporting a sales drop of between 30% and 50% over the same period last year due to a slowdown in construction, possibly caused by price increases for steel and cement. According to Hoy newspaper, the sales figures were given out by one of the top executives of the Hardware Dealers Association, Luis …