2010 – Page 298

Juan Luis Guerra has convinced Juanes (Colombia), Miguel Bose and Alejandro Sanz (Spain) and Luis Fonsi (Puerto Rico) to take the stage with him and sing in a fund-raiser for the children of Haiti. He said that at a local level, Milly Quezada, Maridalia Hernandez and Johnny Ventura had also promised to join him. The …

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Presidente Beer and the Casa de Campo Marina are sponsoring the IV President Sailing Cup from 26 to 28 February. A short regatta on the 27th and a longer regatta with a tour around Catalina Island on Sunday, 28 have been scheduled. The announcement was made by Andres Santana, Gianfranco Fini and Cesar Alcantara. 20 …

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President Leonel Fernandez and First Lady Margarita Cedeno are expected to attend the opening of Ikea in Santo Domingo this Wednesday. The new store will be the first Ikea in Latin America. The Swedish furniture and home decoration store is expected to set new standards for shopping in Santo Domingo and strengthen the city’s positioning …

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Delegations from Haiti and the Dominican Republic met with President Leonel Fernandez and Haitian Prime Minister Jean Max Bellerive in Santo Domingo yesterday and set out guidelines for short-term reconstruction plans for Haiti. Both countries agreed that the priorities for the new Haitian capital would be the construction of new schools, housing and secure food …

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Gasoline and diesel prices are down slightly after the Ministry of Industry and Commerce announced the new price list late Friday. Both regular and premium gasoline went down RD$3.70 a gallon and both types of diesel fuel went down RD$3.20 a gallon. However, LPG was kept at RD$80 per gallon for another week. This is …

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The Department of Taxes (DGII) says that tax collections for January 2010 were 13% higher than the same period last year. Tax collections totaled RD$15.63 billion. The collections were 96.4% of what the DGII had estimated to collect for the month, with a RD$592 million difference, as reported by the DGII. The DGII collects 75% …

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The National District and 6 of the country’s 31 provinces make up 61.5% of the electorate for the 16 May elections. They will also have 103 of the 178 deputies (without counting the 5 at-large deputies by accumulation of votes). The election rolls now show 6,116,397 people registered to vote. Some 1,227,757 voters, or 20% …

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The extraordinary legislature convened by the Executive Branch ends today, with hundreds of legislative proposals, resolutions, conventions and agreements still pending. These bills will have to be discussed after 27 February when the first ordinary legislative session of the year begins. The ordinary session will feature the innovation of being in session for 150 days …

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According to reports from several parts of the country, interruptions in electricity service have intensified considerably during the past few days and in some places the power cuts are now lasting 20 hours of the day. According to El Nuevo Diario, the province of Santo Domingo, Santo Domingo East, Boca Chica, Los Alcarrizos, Pedro Brand …

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With the inauguration of a modern Command and Control Center for viewing satellite images from the radars that were acquired along with the Super Tucano aircraft and the purchase of equipment to strengthen frontier security, the government plans to make the fight against drug trafficking more effective on land and in the air. Armed Forces …

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