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The Superintendence of Electricity says the electricity subsidy so far this year from January to May has totaled more than RD$10.26 billion. The Superintendence says the government has had to provide subsidies for RD$2.13 billion in May alone. The government solution to the rising subsidies in the past has been to pass on inefficiencies in …

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The National Statistics Office (ONE) has tallied 534,632 immigrants from 60 countries living in the Dominican Republic, Minister of Economy Temistocles Montas reported yesterday. Of the total, 458,233 were born in Haiti, which is 87.3% of the total immigrant population. The information is documented in the first national survey on immigrants in the Dominican Republic …

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Economist Gustavo Volmar, writing in today’s Diario Libre, Thursday, 2 May points out that 70% of the reduction in government spending was in capital expenditure, with only 30% in current spending. El Caribe reports that spending during the first quarter of the year was concentrated on payroll, debt service, payment of wages, subsidies and interest …

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Eddy Olivares, head judge at the Central Electoral Board (JCE), insists that the president of the JCE, Roberto Rosario, has violated laws 6-06 on Public Credit, 340-06 on Purchases and Contracting Goods, Services, Works and Concessions and 423-06 on the Public Sector Budget, all during the process of buying equipment for issuing the new national …

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The Organization of American States (OAS) will support the initiative by the Dominican and Haitian governments to document migrant Haitian workers. The process will involve using official locations so that the neighboring authorities can issue identity cards to their own nationals. The proposal aims to solve the situation that affects both countries due to the …

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The three main labor unions are maintaining their demand for a 30% increase in wages on the occasion of Labor Day, 1 May. They said that they would have as many meetings as necessary with employers and the National Salary Committee (CNS) but that they would not accept a salary increase of less than 30%. …

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Yesterday, Wednesday 1 May, the Customs Department (DGA) detained another Barrick Pueblo Viejo shipment of 12 bars of gold and silver alloy at Las Americas International Airport (AILA). The shipment is valued at US$22 million. According to the DGA, the shipment will be detained until Barrick complies with the requested formalities, including correcting mistakes and …

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According to the Global Initiative for Asthma (Gina), 18% of children in the Dominican Republic suffer from asthma. To commemorate World Asthma day, the organization informed that 300 million people have the disease throughout the world, and that in the Dominican Republic, it is one of the main reasons for school and workplace absenteeism. According …

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Family and friends are mourning the death of a 19-year old advertising student, Mario Alberto Rosa Cortorreal, who was shot eight times by two men on a motorbike, to rob his cell phone in the Herrera district in Santo Domingo West around 6am. His aunt, Maria Cortorreal said that he had left for university in …

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From 10:30am on Sunday, 6 May, racing fans can follow races of the second circuit of the National Car Racing Championship at the Mobil 1 Car Race Track on Las Americas Expressway near Santo Domingo. Eighty drivers in four categories are taking part. Watch Jeff Altenburg and Ronnie Suarez, who are leading the championship this …

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