2012 – Page 312

A total of 384 Haitian workers have entered the country over the last few days with the first work visas granted by the Migration Department, after the approval of the new Migratory Regulation recently installed in the Dominican Republic. These employees began working on banana farms belonging to Plantaciones del Norte SRL, located in Montecristi, …

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Leonardo Reyes Madera, the engineer who heads the Society of Seismology and Seismic Engineering, told Hoy newspaper that the nation’s schools all need to be structurally reinforced. He said: “So many years saying the same thing and the authorities still have not wanted to look at the schools, hospitals and other public buildings.” The Society …

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The rise of natural gas begins to be felt, although faintly, with 3,488 vehicles including buses and trucks running on natural gas. Meanwhile, 18,000 shared taxis and more than 25,000 private and public buses run on LPG. The Ministry of Industry and Commerce has granted 87 licenses to operate natural gas plants and authorized 37 …

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The director of the Construction Workers Pension Fund (Fopetcons) said yesterday that he would be seeking legal advice to help locate the RD$1.168 billion pesos that should have been deposited in the National Treasury for the work on public works projects by the Odebrecht Company, the Brazilian company that is a leading contractor to the …

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Some ten months after a plane crashed between Enriquillo and Paraiso, the authorities are now investigating the scene. According to Barahona province deputy district attorney Ivan Ariel Gomez Rubio, who took part in the discovery of the crash site, the airplane was not registered in the Dominican Republic. Quoted in El Nuevo Diario, the official …

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At 3pm today, the Tigres de Aragua will face off with the Indios de Mayaguez at Santo Domingo’s venerable Quisqueya Stadium. The Tigres are representing Venezuela in the Caribbean World Series and the Indios represent Puerto Rico. The Tigres are clear favorites with the betting public, coming to town with strong pitching and excellent batting …

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President Leonel Fernandez has congratulated the Leones del Escogido for winning the local professional baseball championship that came to an end on Monday in the Quisqueya Stadium in the National District. In a letter sent to team president Luis Manuel Bonetti, he said that “in my name and that of the Dominican people I would …

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According to the Department of Taxes (DGII), salaries under RD$33,326.92 per month will be exempt from income tax, in line with the law that adjusts the levels according to inflation. The new limit will be backdated to 1 January this year and will mean a monthly saving for salaried employees. The previous threshold was RD$30,880 …

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The general administrator of the Banco de Reservas, Vicente Bengoa Albizu, stated yesterday that the bank would make no change to the loan interest rate despite an increase of 0.97 percentage points during the last semester of 2011, according to the Central Bank. He said that they had decided not to apply the increase to …

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Yesterday the government began to pay retirement benefits to more than 3,000 retired teachers at a ceremony led by Vice President Rafael Alburquerque, together with Minister of the Presidency Cesar Pina Toribio, Education Minister Josefina Pimentel and the director of the National Institute of Teachers Welfare (INABIMA), Maritza Rossi. At the event at the Presidential …

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