2011 – Page 62

Drawing on a range of influences, Caribbean gift artisans are exhibiting at the Design Caribbean show that opens at Santo Domingo’s Hotel Embajador on 1 September. The show, which will last through 4 September, is attracting international buyers looking for something different and exceptional that captures the essence of the Caribbean. The show is a …

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Award-winning actress and singer Cecilia Garcia stars as Maria Callas in Terrence McNally’s Tony-winning Master Class (1995), which depicts the diva reminiscing on the triumphs and tragedies of her life and career. “Master Class” opens on the weekend of 9-11 September at the Sala Ravelo of the National Theater. Book early, as this is sure …

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The list of proposed candidates for the nation’s highest courts is growing by the day and the latest total registered by the National Judicial Council (CNM) is now 110, with 76 men and 34 women. It includes double and even triple candidates, like the 68 candidates for the Supreme Court of Justice, the 49 for …

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Dominican Migration department director Jose Ricardo Taveras complained on Tuesday that the international community is not fulfilling its role in the control of illegal immigration from Haiti across the frontier to the Dominican Republic. El Nuevo Diario says that Taveras criticized the United Nations has troops in Haiti for being on what he described as …

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The Washington Post recently focused on the high cost that the Dominican Republic health system incurs as a result of the large numbers of Haitian women who migrate illegally with the main intention of giving birth in Dominican hospitals free of charge. In a report on the situation, The Washington Post writes that most migrant …

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The Dominican Republic is a net exporter of ice to Haiti, and the item figures highly in the list of exports to the neighboring country. According to Listin Diario, the growing number of non-traditional export items includes cassava bread, dried coconut, fresh mangoes, organic mangoes, and “bio-dynamics” to countries like the United States, Canada, Mexico, …

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Dominican permanent representative to the United Nations Hector Virgilio Alcantara presented his credentials to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon in a ceremony yesterday. Alcantara had previously served in the post between 1990 and 1993. He has also served as DR permanent representative to the OAS (2008-2011). Alcantara has also been ambassador and consul general of …

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PLD presidential candidate Danilo Medina presented his campaign team yesterday. The team, which will be coordinated by leading PLD member and Tourism Minister Francisco Javier Garcia, is composed of six deputy coordinators, each one in charge of a specific region: The north will be under the care of Bautista Rojas Gomez, the east will be …

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Inflation or the rising cost of living (63.4%), crime (42.2%) and unemployment (40.5%) continue to be the leading problems that Dominicans would like to see resolved. With marked improvements in the reliability of power services (38.2%), blackouts have fallen to fourth place. Drug trafficking is listed by 20.8% as a major problem, followed by 17.8% …

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Internet accounts, the total in 2010 was 622,931, are up in 2011. For the first quarter the figure reaches 672, 250, a growth of 7.9%. In the meantime, the total number of Internet users increased by 6.8%, or 265,592 more, with the total number going from 3,851,278 in 2010 to 4,116,870 at the end of …

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