2012 – Page 51

This morning, Monday 29 October at 10am the special Congressional joint commission will receive explanations from government economists and details on the “bill for the strengthening of the state collection capacity for fiscal sustainability and sustainable development” or the taxation increase proposal that President Danilo Medina submitted to Congress on Wednesday, 24 October. Minister of …

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Leading Dominican economist Pavel Isa Contreras says that the middle class and the poor stand to lose most as a result of the taxation patch the government seeks to impose to reduce its fiscal deficit. He said that these sectors would feel the effects of the increase of the ITBIS (VAT) tax, and the new …

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The rector of the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo (UASD), Mateo Aquino Febrillet says that this institution does not waste money as if it were a “bottomless pit” and invited anyone who has made this type of accusation to investigate how the other 45 universities use their money and compare the number of employees, professors …

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Geologist Osiris de Leon has told reporters from Hoy newspaper that the foundations of the bridge at Los Pilones should be rebuilt with breakwaters of large rocks instead of gabions and soil that is susceptible to erosion. He said that a permanent solution to the problems at this site would be to build a bigger …

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The president of the Management Confederation of the Dominican Republic (Copardom), Jaime O. Gonzalez, has called on the Chamber of Deputies to reject the ratification of Convention 189 of the International Labor Organization that deals with domestic workers. He said that this convention contradicts the Constitution of the Republic and that it would not achieve …

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New York lawyer Dilcia Granville has been voted the new president of the Dominican-American National Roundtable (DANR), the leading Dominican community advocacy organization in the United States. “It’s a unique opportunity,” Dilcia Granville said in a statement. She will head the largest non-profit non-partisan corporation that lobbies for the socio-economic and political empowerment of over …

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Dominican merengue legend, 78-year old Felix del Rosario died on Friday night, 26 October at Plaza de la Salud, after suffering a heart attack. He was buried at the Puerta del Cielo cemetery. Speaking at the wake, Minister of Culture Jose Antonio Rodriguez told Diario Libre that Del Rosario was ” a genius of Dominican …

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The weekend did not end well for at least nine foreigners who were arrested and held for deportation on charges ranging from drug trafficking to money laundering. El Nuevo Diario reported the arrest of Canadian twins Erick and Yanick Blanchette on drug charges after the DNCD searched their house in Costa Azul in Cabarete. The …

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As Hurricane Sandy approaches the New York-New Jersey area, airlines like Jet Blue, United and American have canceled their flight operations for today Monday, 29 October and tomorrow, Tuesday 30 October. Reportedly, 14 flights have been cancelled, including flights from New York and New Jersey. Aerodom, the concessionaire that operates the airports at Las Americas …

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Two days after Hurricane Sandy moved on from the country, 18,858 people are still displaced, some four thousand less than on Saturday. An Emergency Operations Center (COE) report issued yesterday, Sunday 28 October, says that 4,983 houses had been affected and 71 communities were cut off. Most of the isolated communities, 51, were in the …

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