2011 – Page 19

Lawyer Pedro Dominguez Brito writes an open letter to Haitian migration activist Sonia Pierre in today’s El Caribe, commenting on her confrontational attitude. He states that Pierre “continuously takes advantage of international forums to humiliate, accuse Dominicans of racism, tell lies, demonstrating a high dose of cowardice.” Dominguez Brito comments: “You want confrontation, not peaceful …

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As part of the European Partnership Agreement, the European Union is offering grants for small and medium-sized business and private sector institutions in the Dominican Republic, aimed at improving their export capacity. The program is inviting potential applicants to a free workshop on Tuesday, 18 October from 8:30am to 4:30pm at the Jaragua Renaissance Hotel …

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As part of his 30 years in music tour, Venezuelan singer Yordano will visit Santo Domingo for a concert at the Hard Rock Cafe on Friday, 21 October. He successfully performed at Carnegie Hall in New York last weekend. Yordano is best known for his songs, “Manantial de Corazon,” Media luna,” “Por estas calles,” “Locos …

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President Leonel Fernandez visited the Cienfuegos barrio in Santiago yesterday and listened to a litany of complaints and requests that is so typical of these meetings. The President instructed the Minister of Public Works to start paving the barrio streets as part of the second stage of paving work in all the city’s barrios. According …

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The Minister of Labor, Francisco Dominguez Brito, has successfully brought to a close a conflict surrounding pension payments to retired dockworkers in Haina. The strike that would have shut down one of the major ports was avoided as a result. Dominguez said that the last four months of this year would be paid to the …

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The citizens watchdog group Citizen Participation has announced that it considers the passage of next year’s budget bill by the Dominican Senate to have been irresponsibly hurried. El Nuevo Diario reports that PC said that passing the legislation in one day without taking the time to read it through was a sign that the Senate …

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The rector of the UASD, Mateo Aquino Febrillet has set his conditions for expelling students with poor academic scores, as reported in El Caribe. The UASD has been in the spotlight since a professional student who has spent 21 years “studying” medicine at the university was elected leader of a prominent student union. Rector Mateo …

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The Association of Commercial Banks of the Dominican Republic (ABA) disputes statements by the Department of Taxes (DGII) about tax evasion by companies on interests paid by the banks. In a press release, ABA states that the banks made interest payments of RD$20.1 billion and not RD$54 billion as the DGII has stated. ABA has …

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The Israeli ambassador to the Dominican Republic says that his government is “disappointed” over the Dominican Republic’s decision to support the Palestinian Authority in the process that its President, Mahmoud Abbas, is leading for Palestine to be recognized as a nation state in the United Nations. Ambassador Moshe Sermoneta said that Israel is in agreement …

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The Cerro de Maimon mining concession will be exploited as a nickel mine shortly and the Globestar Mining Co. expects to extract over half a million tons of nickel from the mine over the next ten to sixteen years. The company, whose local name is the Dominican Mining Corporation (Cormidom), also extracts gold, silver and …

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