2012 – Page 52

The rains caused havoc with the schedule of the Dominican Winter League Baseball Championship on Friday 26 October, and this week will see several make-up games played. On Saturday, The Gigantes del Cibao got five excellent innings from lefty Chase Wright and defeated the Tigres del Licey 6-1 in the Quisqueya Stadium in Santo Domingo. …

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Fiesta Sunset Jazz announces this Friday’s concert will be a fusion of sounds by Rafelito Mirabal (keyboard), Edgar Molina (Box and more) and Carlito Estrada (saxophone). Enjoy well-known jazz, blues and bossa-nova pieces with new arrangements. Friday, 2 November, 6:30pm at the Dominican Fiesta Hotel on Ave. Anacaona 101, Mirador Sur, Santo Domingo. No cover, …

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According to news reports, leading Dominican coffee manufacturer Industrias Banilejas (Induban), producer of Cafe Santo Domingo, has exported 14 freight containers of coffee to Russia in the past 12 months. Company president Rafael Perello said that this totals US$1 million in export value. “It started with some people who came as tourists, visited us and …

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The government consulting body, the Economic and Social Council, has published a paid ad in leading newspapers today, Friday 26 October to make the point that the government has presented expenditures for RD$469.4 billion in its 2013 budget, without financial applications, and that this total is based on the 2012 budget, where the fiscal deficit …

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The president of Action for Education (Educa) says that the government could provide 4% of GDP for the education sector without increasing taxes. Elena Viyella said that countries like Chile plan to allocate 10% for education. She was speaking at the start of an international workshop, “Learning 2012: Talent, Innovation and Commitment to Education that …

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Playing on the Danilo Medina campaign promise of “doing what has never been done,” the editorial in today’s Diario Libre (Friday 26 October) focuses on the way the government has added a new tax on fuel in the taxation package to establish a multi-million peso fund to benefit the same group of private transport business …

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Economists Ernesto Selman and Roque Feliz say that the changes to the fiscal reform bill made by the government team do not alter the nature of the budget that they say only seeks more revenue for the government, without considering a reduction in spending. Selman says that if the present levels of spending are maintained, …

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According to press reports, PQD politician Elias Wessin Chavez resigned from the post of director of Bienes Nacionales, the government department in charge of state property, after news reports revealed the results of a recent Chamber of Accounts audit that showed irregularities. The government has now appointed the vice president of the same political party …

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The province of San Jose de Ocoa in the southwest was incommunicado after mudslides caused the Sabana Larga Bridge to collapse on Wednesday, 25 October. The mudslides affected the Ocoa-Cruce de Ocoa road, creating major inconvenience for the residents of San Jose de Ocoa. In Raqueta, near Bani, residents are blaming a construction materials company …

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The Centro Dominico Aleman at Calle Isabel la Catolica 212 in Santo Domingo’s Colonial City is celebrating the traditional Oktoberfest with the German community in an event that is also open to the public, on Saturday, 27 October from 10am to closing. 20 types of German beers will be on sale along with traditional sausages …

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