2013 – Page 140

The Ministry of Labor has confirmed that next Friday, 16 August, the Day of the Restoration of the Republic, will be a holiday in the Dominican Republic. According to a 2008 ruling from the Supreme Court of Justice, the celebration will not be moved to Monday. Therefore, the Ministry of Labor reported that Friday, 16 …

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Former Labor Minister Max Puig recommends modifying Law 87-01 on Social Security so that Pension Fund Administrators (AFPs) earnings are more in line with other Latin American countries. He confirmed that the Pension Fund Administrators (AFPs) earnings are much higher here. “A modification of the law would allow for the correction of any background distortion …

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“The electricity sector is the main problem in the Dominican Republic.” This was the opening sentence in the lead article in today’s El Caribe newspaper, Wednesday, 7 August. Electricity is expensive and unreliable and this unleashes a series of additional costs that create inefficiency and harm competitiveness in the local markets, as well as limiting …

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Insurance Superintendent Euclides Gutierrez Felix says he will provide Diario Libre with the information the newspaper has requested on the liquidation of the Segna Insurance Company. The superintendent sent a personal note to Omnimedia, Grupo Multimedia, saying that they would submit to the deadlines established in article 8 of Law 200-04 on Freedom of Information. …

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The Dominican Republic has a favorable trade balance with Canada, which led foreign investments at US$5.34 billion from 1993-2011. As reported in Hoy, Dominican exports to Canada were US$283 million last year, compared to imports of US$128 million. Dominican ambassador in Canada Jose Urena says that export of medical instruments has increased by 50.6% since …

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Leading journalist Minerva Isa, writing for Hoy newspaper, shows how the Dominican Republic’s open skies policy has evolved into an “oligopolistic stranglehold” on airfares in the country. Some airlines that operate as “low-fare” carriers in the United States have increased fares to and from the Dominican Republic to the point that it can be less …

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China is the biggest buyer of Dominican bauxite. The Dominican Republic exported 300,000 tons of bauxite in two shipments from Cabo Rojo port in Pedernales in July, reports the Department of Mining. The shipments were 21,998 tons to North America and 186,982 to China. The Department said that in the second half of August a …

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After operating on 24 children, a total of 1,265 high-risk surgical procedures were carried out at the Arturo Grullon Children’s Hospital in Santiago between 20 July and 3 August. The children suffered from congenital heart problems and the program developed by the Corazones del Cibao Foundation, the International Children’s Heart Foundation, the Arturo Grullon Children’s …

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In a detailed report, researchers from Yale Law School have definitively placed the responsibility for the cholera outbreak in Haiti (and the Dominican Republic as a result of migrant workers) on the United Nations peacekeeping forces in Haiti. In the report filed in today’s El Caribe, Wednesday, 7 August, the researchers lay out the timeline …

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The popular mini-theater in Santo Domingo’s Colonial City, Teatro Las Mascaras presents “I Am Looking for the Man of My Dreams, I Already Had a Husband,” (Busco al hombre de mi vida, marido ya tuve) on weekends in August. Lidia Ariza, Pamela de Leon and Grace Moore play the roles of three women who are …

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