2013 – Page 255

The Department of Taxes (DGII) is closing down businesses that are behind in their tax payments. According to a press release, the raids began on Monday 8 April when DGII officers and Police visited premises in Blue Mall, Bella Vista Mall, Plaza Central, Plaza Andalucia, Plaza Central, Plaza Naco, Diamond Mall and other Santo Domingo …

Read more…

Addressing a crowd of approximately 100 students and faculty at the Yale Law School yesterday, Tuesday April 9, Former President Leonel Fernandez spoke about Latin America’s economic growth in recent years and touched on the importance of the Latino community in the United States. “Latin America is a region of enormous contrasts – it is …

Read more…

Economy, Planning and Development Minister Juan Temistocles Montas, currently visiting mainland China, has gone public saying that the time has come for a strategic alliance between the People’s Republic of China and the Dominican Republic. The DR has commercial ties with China, but maintains diplomatic ties with Taiwan. During his visit to China, Montas has …

Read more…

The director general of the National Transport Office (OTTT), Hector Mojica said that this country cannot continue allowing drivers who hit and kill people to get away with it and the director of the Emergency Operations Center (COE), General Juan Manuel Mendez has publicly asked National Congress to speed up the process to change the …

Read more…

In an interview during the weekly Multimedios del Caribe luncheon event, hosted by the Director of El Caribe newspaper, Osvaldo Santana, the Minister of Interior and Police Jose Ramon (Monchy) Fadul announced that the police on patrol would receive a 100% increase in their salaries from May. Minimum wages will go from RD$6,177 per month …

Read more…

The surfertoday.com website reports on the destruction of the “House of Waves” surf school in a fire at Encuentro Beach, Cabarete last month. The report says that all surfing equipment was stolen and the structure was completely gutted. It quotes local residents as saying that they heard an explosion and witnessed the flames as they …

Read more…

The two pilots who were killed when their plane crashed during the Caribbean Air Show on the Malecon in Santo Domingo on Sunday, 7 April, Rafael Eduardo Sanchez Astacio aged 27 and Carlos Manuel Guerrero Guerrero, 25, were laid to rest with full military honors yesterday, Tuesday 9 April. They were buried in Parque del …

Read more…

The president of the National Drug Control Agency (DNCD), General Rolando Rosado Mateo, has said that he will personally lead the investigation into the murder of a man in Puerto Plata by drug dealers, after he complained about the existence of a drug sales point. He said that it was intolerable that a citizen who …

Read more…

In a full page advertisement published in today’s Hoy newspaper, Wednesday 10 April, lawyer Vinicio A. Castillo Seman rejects statements by Attorney General Francisco Dominguez Brito on Monday 8 April, claiming that the FBI agents who interviewed the domestic employees in a villa belonging to ophthalmologist Salomon Melgen had acted according to the rules. Jurist …

Read more…

“I have nothing to say, only that I am a friend of Alex Rodriguez,” Santiago socialite Rebeca Yunen Finke told reporters from El Caribe. The 24-year old is a graduate with honors in management from PUCMM university. She works at Capex in the Victor Espaillat Mera Free Zone Industrial Park. As reported in the press, …

Read more…