2012 – Page 9

The telecoms companies are beginning to apply, starting this month, an increase of a 10% selective consumer tax, included in the Law for the Strengthening of the Collection Capacity of the State for the Fiscal Sustainability and Sustainable Development (Tax Reform). On the bills for the month of December the communications companies are telling their …

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An influential group of Dominican intellectuals question the Ministry of Education’s capacity to spend the over RD$99 billion of this year’s budget effectively. One quote in Hoy newspaper said: “The Ministry of Education suffers from macrocephaly with 4,000 people defining policy when they only need 300 efficient people.” The questions were raised by Professor Julio …

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A school built to serve 10,000 students has received just 780 applications for the first class. According to Listin Diario some 300 students took the entrance exam for the Higher Technical Community Institute in San Luis, an attempt by the Leonel Fernandez administration to imitate the United States Community College system. In view of the …

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Farmers in Constanza now have a new packing plant for handling exports overseas. The Inverpark, a partner of Green Point, has opened the most modern packing plant in the Caribbean at a cost of US$300,000. The plant provides 25 direct jobs and over a hundred indirect jobs. In Constanza there is over 660,000 square meters …

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Shippers say that they need more volume, since they have the ships. They add that the main challenge for Dominican farmers and businesspeople is to create the volumes needed for achieving cost reductions and compete more efficiently on the international market. Anibal Pina, the executive vice-president of the Dominican Republic Shippers Association, said that if …

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The reopening of the Fishermen’s Village in Las Terrenas has helped the economy in the region to get moving once again. The government recently completed the reconstruction of the local tourist attraction, which burned to the ground last May. Most of the new locales were finished in August. Only Yemaya Cafe and Bar Replay did …

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The authorities have arrested nine people in connected with the three murders in the Los Mogotes section of Villa Altagracia last week. The nine young men, all between the ages of 19 and 30 are under investigation, not only for the murders but also for armed robberies committed outside banks and on people who had …

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After being declared a free agent by the Kansas City Royals, Dominican baseball player Jerinson Tatis was packing his bags to go and play with Oakland today, Monday 17 December. But a bullet cut short his poor family’s dreams when in the early hours of Sunday 16 December he was killed together with Angel Juan …

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On Friday night, 14 December the Leones del Escogido were poor hosts to the Gigantes del Cibao in the Estadio Quisqueya, defeating them, 8-5, and keeping alive their hopes of classifying for the Round Robin portion of the local tournament. In Santiago, the Aguilas Cibaenas, with 3-3 hitting by captain Hector Luna, defeated the Estrellas …

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Fatima Franco and Cukin Curiel invite jazz lovers to this Monday night event at Soho Rooftop, on the fifth floor of the Bella Terra Mall on Juan Pablo Duarte Avenue in Santiago. With a great view of the city and different live jazz bands every Monday, it is an event you don’t want to miss …

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