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Punta Cana Music & Art Festival is on for the long weekend that begins Thursday, 15 August at the Palma Real Shopping Village and continues till Sunday, 18 August. The opening night will feature typical merengue with Lupe Valerio and his group, and the folklore show by the Ministry of Tourism Folk Dance Group. Maestro …

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The government is making preparations for the celebration of the 150th anniversary of the Restoration of the Republic, with President Danilo Medina leading the events. The commemorations start with a Te Deum thanksgiving Mass at the Santiago Apostol Cathedral, celebrated by the Archbishop of Santiago, Ramon Benito de la Rosa y Carpio. The President will …

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The Central Bank of the Dominican Republic has set the inflation rate for the month of July at just 0.62%. The Consumer Price Index for the year was set at 2.39%, which year to year gives the economy an inflation rate of 5.67%. The 2013 yearly inflation rate is going to be within the 5% …

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With more than 7,000 people working on the Metro II line, the Transport Reorganization Office (Opret) says that the work should be finished by 2016. According to Opret deputy director Leonel Carrasco, the Metro II line will provide some 2,000 direct jobs and that some 7,000 people are working to ensure the project is completed …

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For the seventh time, the ruling PLD, the main opposition PRD and the PRSC parties have signed a “Municipal Democracy and Governance Pact” through which they seek to prevent conflict in the city councils. On 16 August, as a result, city council members and party spokespersons in the city governments and in the National District, …

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At the start of each school year parents make the same complaints about the high cost of sending children back to school properly dressed and equipped. Based on the division of the average salaries that is established by the Central Bank for a family in the lowest 5% whose salary averages RD$11,457 and with one …

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Dominican migration authorities will be implementing the Advance Passenger Information System (APIS) system at all ports of entry starting 1 September 2013, announced Migration director Jose Ricardo Taveras yesterday Tuesday 13 August, as reported in El Caribe. The system enhances border security by providing officers with pre-arrival and departure manifest data on all passengers and …

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Following a request made by the Justice Department to the Judicial Office of Services of Permanent Attention of the Court of Instruction in the Judicial District of Puerto Plata, arrest warrants were issued for three National Police officers who are linked to the alleged robbery of some RD$60,000,000 during a search of a house in …

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The watchdog group Citizen Participation (PC) has rejected the idea of releasing former banker Ramon Baez Figueroa, who was sentenced to 10 years in prison in 2007 on conditional freedom as he requested. Judge Willys de Jesus Nunez, the judge in charge of the Execution of the Sentence in San Cristobal, has taken the request …

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Mental health specialists attribute the increase in the tendency to commit suicide in the country over the last nine years to depressive disorders and a lack of respect for life that is combined with the demanding modern lifestyle and the fact that people have become apathetic towards problems and behavioral changes in those around them. …

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