2012 – Page 139

Juan Bolivar Diaz writes in Hoy on Sunday that the bill that would set a cap to public salaries in order to impose austerity on the government has been distorted in Congress. He alerts that what has come forth is a bill that orders increases in wages of higher paid government officers practically across the …

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The Municipality of the National District announced a zoo area is under construction within the park grounds of the National Music Conservatory. This would be the second “zoo” that Mayor Roberto Salcedo undertakes. The first one was the very controversial “Zooberto”, where at a cost of RD$11 million, giant monsters were erected at the intersection …

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The free zone manufacturing industry in the Dominican Republic recovered in the past two years to post a 3.4% growth in 2010 and a significant 14.1% in 2011. An op-ed feature in Hoy on Sunday attributes the recovery to increases in the cost of labor in China and the low inventories companies are keeping to …

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Sally Aponte, the Dominican Republic representative to the Miss World 2012 contest taking place in Ordos City, Inner Mongolia was chosen among the 23 participants to participate in the Top Talent and Top Model votes. Her attire in the Miss World?s World Designer Award”, designed by Leonel Lirio, received a strong ovation. The final will …

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The going was tough for Dominican athletes in the start of the London Olympic Games. Best performing was underdog 20-year old Yamilet Pena Abreu who landed a fourth place qualification in the vault competition of artistic gymnastics, holding her own for a chance at a medal on 5 August. Yamilet Pena qualified for the London …

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He had just been ordained on Saturday and was traveling to Puerto Plata to say his first mass. Salesian priest Victor Martinez Cabrera, 29, died when the SUV in which he was traveling slid down the Jarabacoa highway at around 8:40am Sunday morning. The vehicle fell in the pronounced curves area known as El Puerto, …

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A tragic accident on Saturday at Calle Hugo Eduardo Polanco of the Villa Olga neighborhood in the southeast of Santiago ended in the death of six, including a four year old child. As reported in Listin Diario, the occupants were identified as Romel Linda Espinal, 63; Elba Espinal, 60; Victor Antonio Risso, 70 and his …

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The First Festival del Merengue y Ritmos Caribenos will take place on 4 and 5 August at Plaza Juan Baron on the Malecon seafront boulevard in the capital. The festival commemorates the anniversary of the city of Santo Domingo. On Saturday, the show starts at 6pm and finishes at 2am. On Sunday, 5 August dancing …

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The Ministry of Public Works inaugurated yesterday, 26 July the repaving of the 21 km Cruz del Isleno-Nisibon road from Higuey to Miches and a bridge over the Maimon River in La Altagracia province yesterday. The works were built at an announced cost of RD$377 million and benefit more than 364,000 inhabitants from the surrounding …

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The IMF could be welcomed back earlier than later. President-elect Danilo Medina met with visiting executives here for the International Monetary Fund’s 11th Annual Regional Conference on Central America, Panama and the Dominican Republic that opened yesterday in Punta Cana. In a high-level meeting held before the opening of the conference, Medina showed interest that …

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