2012 – Page 142

The rector of the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo (UASD) will act on the recent recommendation from the Minister of Superior Education Ligia Amada Melo to dismiss from the university students with more than eight years. Rector Mateo Aquino Febrillet said that he has asked the registrar’s office to develop the list of the students …

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President Leonel Fernandez met yesterday with the Minister of Industry and Commerce in order to mediate the boycott called by the propane gas distributors. Minister Manuel Garcia Arevalo called for a meeting next Tuesday between the sectors involved in the sale of LPG and asked that the filling stations continue to offer their services to …

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Meeting and convention tourism should be exempt from the 16% ITBIS tax, proposed Julio Llibre, president of the National Hotel & Tourism Association when speaking during the monthly luncheon of the American Chamber of Commerce. Llibre says that it is time that the country implement tax free shopping for tourists to boost cruise ship and …

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The president of the British Chamber of Commerce in the Dominican Republic, Campos de Moya is confident that the commitment made by President-elect Danilo Medina to relaunch the Dominican economy by backing new growth of the tourism industry will become a reality. “I would add that the infrastructure, natural scenery, and experience of our operators …

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The president of the Dominican Revolutionary Party (PRD), Miguel Vargas Maldonado reminded everyone yesterday that only the party has the authority to approve or not the 10 proposals presented by the mediating commission. He denied to the Diario Libre reporters that he had approved the initiatives by PRD leaders that sought alternatives in order to …

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A wonderful poet named Ogden Nash once wrote: “What a wonderful bird is the pelican; his beak can hold more than his belly can.” Which seems to describe the article in today’s Listin Diario that attempts to present all of the marvelous used for the moringa oleifera, also known here as the “Freedom Plant” and …

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A team of officers arrested yesterday a man that used a pseudonym in order to gain the trust of two minors, 13 and 14. Using this trust he tricked them into taking nude photographs of themselves and then threatening them with death in order to have sex with one of them. The girls, the victims, …

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Sailors from Singapore, Elisa Yukie Yokoyama, Samuel Jiun Jie Neo, Jessica Kai Ling Goh and Jiayi Loh overmatched all others in the IODA Optimist World Championship that took place at the Santo Domingo Yacht Club and the waters of Andres, Boca Chica. The United States team of Ivan Shetopalov, Nick Muller, Romain Screve and Will …

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The Casa de Teatro Jazz Festival closes today, Thursday 26 July with the Spanish Soundfest and Jaume Vilaseca Trio and Ravi Chary, from Barcelona. Tickets for the festival are on sale for RD$500 for events in the Cristobal de Llerena hall and RD$300 for the Cafe Teatro. For more on upcoming events, see http://dr1.com/calendar

President Leonel Fernandez forecast yesterday that the Gross Domestic Product will be above US$120 billion by 2012. He spoke at the Presidential Palace on occasion of being recognized by the Dominican College of Economists. He said that since he returned to government in 2004 to the present, the Dominican Republic economy has grown on average …

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