2013 – Page 63

Philippe Quint on the violin and John Novacek on the piano will be playing in a concert organized by the Sinfonia Foundation and the Ministry of Culture at the National Theater in Santo Domingo. See sinfonia.org.do, Tel 809 532-6600. For more on ongoing and upcoming events, see http://dr1.com/calendar

The Ministry of Public Health and the Pan-American Health Organization are asking the Ministry of Interior and Police to maintain the curfew on the sale of alcohol in the Dominican Republic. Traditionally, the curfew has been lifted for the Christmas holidays. Jose Mieses, director of Mental Health at the Ministry of Public Health expressed his …

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The Ministry of Labor has announced 12 official holidays in 2014. These in turn will create five major long weekends, when official holidays fall within the week. For the lucky few who can take extra time off, the holidays to watch for are Our Lady of Altagracia in January, Easter in April, Labor Day in …

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Immigration Department director Jose Ricardo Taveras says that many foreigners are already visiting the Central Electoral Board (JCE) to enquire about starting to regularize their status. He predicts that the implementation of the plan will be a success. “The truth is that most are not behind all the noise that has been generated, most just …

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Legislator Vinicio Castillo Seman is advising the non-governmental organizations that have been campaigning against the Constitutional Court ruling 168-13 to work to help the foreigners legalize their status through a first step of temporary residency. The ruling ordered the government to continue the more common practice of not issuing Dominican nationality to illegal foreigners. “The …

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Cardinal Nicolas Lopez Rodriguez, head of the Roman Catholic Church in the Dominican Republic, argues that the Constitutional Court ruling 168-13 sets a precedent for regularizing illegal immigration in the country. He urged people to read the ruling in order to understand it better. The cardinal was responding to opinions from several priests who have …

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El Caribe newspaper’s page two editorial commentary today, Friday 25 October, makes the point that the fast pace of Haitian immigration is causing major security problems. “Those that are politicizing the inevitable regularizing of the presence of illegal Haitians have to understand some of the reasons. Most of the immigrants arrive without a name and …

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The president of the Dominican Republic Association of Industries (AIRD) Ligia Bonetti has warned that statistics show that three out of every four jobs in the Dominican Republic are in the informal sector. “This is a scary statistic. A statistic that only leads to an increasingly deepening and possibly irreversible crisis, in terms of economic …

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In a report quoted in El Dia, the Dominican consul general in New York gave a breakdown of the statistics on where 1,414,703 Dominicans live in the United States. According to figures from the 2010 US Census, Dominicans are concentrated in: New York state: 674,787 New Jersey: 197,922 Florida: 172,451 Massachusetts: 103,292 Pennsylvania: 62,348 Rhode …

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The complaint against the former Minister of Public Works Victor Diaz Rua and businessman Mustafa Abu Naba’a mentioned yesterday, Thursday 24 October by District Attorney Yeni Berenice Reynoso was submitted by the Justice First Foundation (Fundacion Primero Justicia), as reported in El Dia. Freddy Aguasvivas, a journalist and spokesman for the foundation, accuses the former …

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