2010 – Page 57

A concert with Brazilian singer-songwriter Djavan takes place tonight at the Teatro La Fiesta Hotel Jaragua. Meanwhile, at the National Theater’s Sala de la Cultura, Quinteto Viento de Locura performs timeless music in this winds concert. For more on upcoming events, see www.dr1.com/calendar  

President Leonel Fernandez attended yesterday’s opening ceremony of the 17th Florida Caribbean Cruise Association Conference (FCCA) in Santo Domingo. The venues are the Hotel Jaragua, Hotel Melia and the Sans Souci Terminal and Convention Center. Speaking at the event, Tourism Minister Francisco Javier Garcia stressed that maritime tourism was a growing segment for the country …

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The International Monetary Fund (IMF) announced the completion of the second and third reviews of the 28-month Stand-by Arrangement (SBA) with the Dominican Republic on 22 October and approved the immediate disbursement of about US$249 million as part of a line of credit worth US$1.72 billion that was approved in November 2009. The total resources …

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Hacienda Minister Vicente Bengoa says that the government does not plan to increase the number of goods and services that are subject to the ITBIS value-added tax. As reported in Listin Diario, Bengoa stated that most of the products remaining are essential food basket items. Research that considered increasing taxation dated September has been circulating. …

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The National Sugar Union (Unazucar) has expressed its approval of the contract between the CEA (the State Sugar Council) and the Vicini-Campollo consortium. The contract involves lands that used to be cultivated by the Quisqueya and Consuelo sugar mills in the old days when the CEA managed 14 sugar mills that used to belong to …

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The Dominican Republic has maintained its ranking as a country with among the highest perceived levels of corruption in the world. Of the 178 countries on the list published by Transparency International, the Dominican Republic occupies the 101st position, and of the 23 countries in the Americas, it is listed at number 14. For years …

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The government has authorized the reopening of the bi-national markets in the border area on Friday with the warning that they have to function in the center of each city with the required levels of hygiene and controls established by the Ministry of Health to reduce the risk of cholera entering the Dominican Republic. The …

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Public Health Minister Bautista Rojas Gomez said that following instructions from President Leonel Fernandez, he has dispatched three tons of chlorine to Haiti. He also announced that the DR’s priorities in dealing with the cholera outbreak in Haiti included creating awareness among Dominicans, who have not had experience of the disease. He said there was …

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Statistics released by the Department of Migration show that after the 12 January 2010 earthquake in Haiti, some 57,119 Haitians who crossed the border to the DR on market days have stayed on in the country illegally. A spokesman for the department told Diario Libre that the figure probably does not even account for 50% …

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The crisis affecting the school breakfast program as a result of a series of food poisoning cases among students has made the Minister of Education mull the option of transferring responsibility to the Solidarity Program or to a consortium of companies. Education Minister Melanio Paredes says that he had been considering the alternatives ever since …

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