2010News

Tomas hits Haiti

Tomas intensified and is passing through the Windward Passage between Cuba and Haiti as a category 1 hurricane. Tomas, as a hurricane, killed some 12 people in St. Lucia in the southeastern Caribbean over one week ago. The storm is likely to cause large-scale destruction in Haiti, where an estimated 1.3 million people live in …
2010News

Al Gore visits

Former US Vice President and environmental activist Al Gore held a 40-minute meeting with President Leonel Fernandez at the Presidential Palace yesterday. Gore, the president of the Thinking Green Foundation, was the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize laureate. The Presidency reported that they discussed climate change and its effects on the global economy and international politics. …
2010News

Traffic lights to be repaired

The government’s Direccion General de Transito Terrestre (DGTT), the entity in charge of ground transport, has announced that Control Global Capital is responsible for the traffic lights in the National District. The contract covers the maintenance of 273 traffic lights. The DGTT informed that traffic lights would be repaired and synchronized. The government awarded a …
2010News

EUR61 million support from EU

The European Commission approved a general budget support program for a total sum of EUR61 million for the Dominican Republic on 4 November, as reported in europolitics.info The program is aimed at supporting the government’s growth and poverty reduction objectives by contributing to the national development strategy in the areas of poverty reduction and sustainable …
2010News

Doing Business scores

The Dominican Republic has dropped five notches to position 91 of 183 countries in the World Bank Group Doing Business 2011 Report released yesterday. For the report, economies are ranked on their ease of doing business from 1-183. The index averages the country’s percentile rankings on nine topics: starting a business, dealing with construction permits, …
2010News

Amable chooses his replacement

Senator-elect for La Altagracia, Amable Aristy Castro, has finally resigned from his post as secretary general of the Dominican Municipal League. The ex-oficio president of the LMD, Interior and Police Minister Franklin Almeyda Rancier, in coordination with the Dominican Federation of Municipalities (Fedomu) convened an assembly of 155 mayors to elect his replacement for Saturday, …