2011 – Page 46

The largest commercial, social and industrial gathering in the Dominican Republic opens tomorrow in the Barranquita Sports Complex in the southern part of Santiago de los Caballeros. This year’s slogan is “Quality Jobs = Competitiveness + Development”, and this is the XXIV edition of the exposition. The organizers, the Santiago Chamber of Commerce and Production, …

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On Saturday the nation will celebrate National Beach Cleanup Day, and try to clean up the 184 beaches and some of the riverbanks in the Dominican Republic. The event is being sponsored by the Ministry of the Environment, the Center for Agricultural and Forestry Development (Cedaf), and the Vida Azul Foundation, and will include thousands …

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The National Audiovisual Institute of France, the General Archives of the Nation, the Memorial Museum of Dominican Resistance, the Dominican Embassy in France and the Ministry of Tourism are inviting the public to attend the presentation of the web-documentary by Adrien Walter and Emmanuel Clemenceau on the story of the migration of Jewish refugees to …

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President Leonel Fernandez convened security and civil society organizations on Saturday to a large meeting in Santiago to discuss crime. The measures that emerged from the talks, as reported in El Caribe, included the President ordering a ban on prison inmates using cell phones. Contract killing is said to be behind 21 murders in Santiago, …

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National Drug Control Agency (DNCD) chief Major General Rolando Rosado Mateo said yesterday that Mexican cartels use local groups based in Santiago to transport drug shipments. He said their activities extend throughout the country and that this explains the recent spate of contract killings. Rosado said the local groups have contacts within pharmaceutical companies to …

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Canadian Minister of State of Foreign Affairs (Americas and Consular Affairs) Diane Ablonczy is visiting the Dominican Republic this week. This is the first bilateral visit to the DR by a Canadian Minister. The visit seeks to underscore the importance of Canadian tourism to the DR-Canada relations and to the Dominican economy. Minister Ablonczy will …

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Economist Bernardo Fuentes wonders out loud what the recent tax reform that significantly increased the tax burden on business and individuals in the Dominican Republic was about if the government was endeavoring to secure more flexibility from the IMF all along. He concludes that the government could have wanted the tax reform to be able …

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For years, when friends and relatives were lost at sea, volunteer yachtsmen and pilots volunteered their own time and funds to help in the rescue efforts. Recently, the volunteers have organized themselves into the Dominican Naval Auxiliary Corps and now they seek a legal framework for their activities that were recognized in the US Coast …

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Investors from China and Brazil have been setting up operations in Dominican Republic free zones to make the most of the free trade agreements with the United States, Europe and Central America, as reported in Hoy. Jose Torres of the Dominican Free Zone Association (Adozona) said that exports of footwear, pharmaceuticals and medical device exports …

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The judge of the 4th Civil and Commercial Court of the National District has banned Insurance Superintendent Euclides Gutierrez from sending out any more intimidating legal statements to companies that sponsor Nuria Piera’s investigative journalism TV show ‘Nuria en el 9’. Judge Maritza Capellan Araujo also ordered him to desist from actions of this nature …

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