2009 – Page 162

The Department of Taxes (DGII) has reported a 2% shortfall in tax revenues for the first half of the year. The missing RD$1.34 billion represents a 2% drop in what was budgeted for the period. According to El Caribe, the office collected RD$77.98 billion and it had expected to collect RD$79.32 billion. Hoy newspaper looked …

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The Ministry of Environment has placed severe restrictions on the fishing of marlin and sailfish within the area off the southeast shoreline of the DR. According to Hoy newspaper, the measures are aimed at protecting the Blue Marlin, the White Marlin and the Sailfish. The ministry imposed the restriction for strictly sport fishing in the …

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The Superintendent of Health and Labor Risks (Sisalril), Fernando Caamano has reported that he will ask the National Social Security Council today to ask their membership to include organ transplant surgeries as part of the expansion of the Health Service Plan (PDSS) program that he proposed last 5 June. He said he would ask for …

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Information coming from the US State Department places the DR in 6th place on the list of countries that send most legal immigrants to the US, as reported in El Caribe. Only Mexico, China, India, the Philippines and Cuba exceed the 31,879 Dominicans who either visited or moved to the US legally. In 2008, there …

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The Used Vehicles Importers Association (ASOCIVU) reported yesterday that their sales have fallen by 60% in the first half of the year in comparison with the same period last year. Asocivu president Hector Molina attributed the decline to the economic crisis and to the fact that only vehicles under 5 years old can be imported. …

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The man killed in an airplane crash at sea off Matanzas in Peravia province on 30 June was a Colombian national. He has been identified as Harol Andres Ortegon, 29, a professional pilot, according to the National Forensic Science Institute (INACIF) in Azua, and confirmed by the forensic surgeon in Bani, Walter Lopez, who brought …

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Water bottling plants that were supposed to have been closed by the Public Health authorities continued operating yesterday, while others that were required to comply with some regulations said they were working hard to fulfill them. Yosmar Rossi, administrator of the Agua Genuina plant that was closed by Public Health inspectors on Monday, denied that …

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Julio Cesar de la Rosa Tiburcio, coordinator of the Dominican Alliance against Corruption (Adocco) and Trajano Vidal Potentini, president of the Foundation for Justice and Transparency criticized a decision by the First Court of Instruction of Santo Domingo that ordered the return of an airplane that landed last year from Puerto Rico with more than …

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Peru, the US and Chile won the first places in the IODA North American Optimist Championship that concluded on Wednesday in Boca Chica. Rodrigo Delgado, Erik Holmbom and Paloma Esteban were the best performers for the local team that placed 9th.

An adaptation of the novel by Charles Webb, The Graduate, directed by Ivan Garcia will be presented at the Palace of Fine Arts (Bellas Artes) this weekend. Alexander Pimentel will be Benjamin Braddock, and Fedra Lopez will be Miss Robinson. Tickets for sale at the Bellas Artes box office. For updates on more upcoming events, …

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