2012 – Page 39

Nobel Prize for Literature laureate Mario Vargas Llosa’s play, Al pie del Tamesis, directed and produced by Danilo Ginebra will be staged on Friday, Saturday and Sunday at Casa de Teatro auditorium in Santo Domingo’s Colonial City, starting 15 November through 16 December. Patricia Munoz and Hensy Pichardo are the lead actors. Other roles are …

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President Danilo Medina visited areas affected by flooding caused by heavy rainfall in the north over the last few days, including the towns of Imbert and Luperon in the province of Puerto Plata on Sunday, 11 November. The Emergency Operations Center (COE) said that more than 3,000 people have been displaced, more than 60 communities …

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The president of the Chamber of Deputies, Abel Martinez (PLD-National District) says that the deputies will deal with the proposal received from the Presidency to modify Article 49 of the Fiscal Reform Law 253-12 during their session next Tuesday at 10am. Article 49 of the Fiscal Reform Law taxes purchases made over the Internet. Martinez …

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Yesterday, Sunday 11 November confirmed that “The struggle has just begun,” as dozens of organizations had said during a peaceful protest against Tax Reform Law 253-12 outside the National Congress building on Tuesday, 6 November. Diario Libre describes how Independence Park, at the Gate of El Conde, was the setting that hundreds of people chose …

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In view of the new tax reform (Law 253-12), some economists are predicting a reduction of the Gross Domestic Product for 2013, which will accompany a loss of competitiveness for the productive sector and have a negative impact on the middle and poorer classes. Eduardo Tejera and Henri Hebrard made these dire predictions in separate …

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The National District City Council has approved the Regulations for Places and Functions established in Ordinance 9-2012 that will control and allow for the control and supervision of the informal businesses that have set up operations in public areas in the capital. The legislation, passed by the Council of Members on 18 October, will require …

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Deputy Demostenes Martinez has convinced his fellow legislators to call a public hearing for Wednesday 14 November, at 10am, to listen to experts and defenders of freedom of expression on an article that will have a widespread and chilling effect on people who demand accountability from government officials. The bill establishes jail terms for criticism …

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At 6:02pm on Saturday, 10 November, dozens of baby turtles began to hatch on Guibia Beach off Santo Domingo’s Malecon seafront avenue. Ministry of Environment experts say that 144 baby hawksbill sea turtles (Eretmochelys imbricata), an endangered species, were born. Two hours later, as part of their instinctive return to the waters, the baby turtles …

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The discovery of large amounts of gold and copper in the mountains north of San Juan de la Maguana in the southwest has intensified efforts to confirm the amounts of the precious metals. The deposits, according to test drillings are at 500 meters below the surface. Hoy newspaper reports that the 3,000-hectare concession called Las …

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Depending on which newspaper you read (Hoy says 47 and other newspapers say 62) there was a major shakeup in the National Police over the weekend of 10-11 November. The Higher Police Council discharged dozens of members, including a colonel and two majors, and applied penalties to another 15 officers for alleged criminal or disciplinary …

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