2010 – Page 62

The free zone sector is campaigning for Congress to pass a bill reforming the duty free zone law. Luisa Fernandez of the National Council of Free Zones, Eduardo Bogaert of the Association of San Pedro de Macoris Free Zones and Jose Manuel Torres of the Dominican Association of Free Zones (Adozona) met at the offices …

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El Caribe reports today on the damage that mining has caused to the previously fertile farming areas in Bonao and La Vega. Environmentalists and farmers point to the craters that are evidence of what they describe as “an incurable cancer”. Environment Minister Jaime David Fernandez Mirabal acknowledges: “That is not recoverable. One would have to …

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The PRD opposition party has selected Enmanuel Esquea Guerrero as president of the commission in charge of organizing the primary to choose the presidential candidate for the 2012 presidential elections. Former Vice President Milagros Ortiz Bosch was chosen first vice president and Hugo Tolentino Dipp, second vice president of the organizing commission. The two leading …

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A group of young women have marched in white wedding dresses to protest violence against women. The activity commemorated the murder of 39-year old Dominican migrant Gladys Ricart on her wedding day in 1999. The march, which took place at the UASD state university was led by Roxanna Reyes, prosecutor for women’s affairs in the …

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TV’s Dan Rather, formerly of CBS news, focuses on the business of baseball in the DR and how searchers scout for cheap talent. He says it is a numbers game. In the DR you can sign up 100 young Dominicans for the cost of a first-round US-born draft pick and only need a handful of …

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The start of the Dominican Professional Winter Baseball Championship takes place at 7:25pm tonight. A half-hour opening ceremony at the Quisqueya Ball Park will be held in memory of MLB pitcher Jose Lima who died recently, and the baseball players who died in the Rio Verde airplane crash tragedy in 1948. On the opening day, …

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David Bisbal is the big name in town this weekend. On his “Not Looking Back Tour 2010,” the Spanish singing star is booked for performances at the Gran Arena del Cibao in Santiago on Friday, 22 October and at the National Theater in Santo Domingo on Saturday, 23 October. Bisbal’s Waving a Flag was the …

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Criticism of corruption in the Fernandez administration escalated last year, motivating President Leonel Fernandez to ask foreign governments and multilateral institutions to conduct a diagnostic exercise and make proposals to help the government combat corruption. Eleven public and private sector bodies and civil society organizations joined forces to work on the Participative Anti-Corruption Initiative (IPAC). …

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The director of the National Statistics Office (ONE) Pablo Tactuk has revoked the decision to contract Sinergit for carrying out the National Population and Housing Census and said a tender would be held. ONE had chosen Sinergit despite the fact that the National Procurement Office had rejected awarding this company the contract. ONE initially said …

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Eddy Martinez, director of the DR Center for Export and Investment, who recently headed a mission to the Shanghai World Expo, is optimistic that Chinese investors will start considering the Dominican market in the near future. He announced a Chinese business mission would come in November as a follow up to meetings in Shanghai. He …

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