2013 – Page 85

Maria Dimitrova who recently won bronze in Individual Kata in the 7th World Championship Shito Ryu in Japan, is competing for the Dominican Republic in the 5th Ibero-American Karate Tournament that is taking place in Santo Domingo from 3-6 October 2013. Competitors from 22 countries will be taking part. The event is organized by the …

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The Ju Percussion Group (JPG) from Taiwan with its 13 talented percussionists, and director Tzong-Ching Ju is performing tonight, 4 October, at the main hall of the National Theater in Santo Domingo. The group members are known for their virtuosity in playing Western percussion instruments as well as Chinese gong-drum music, and other forms of …

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The 2014 National Budget bill includes approvals for contracting financing for RD$189 billion in 2014. This is about 7% of the GDP. 81% (RD$155.4 billion) of the financing would come from external sources, and 19% (RD$33.85 billion) from local sources. The government has estimated a fiscal deficit of RD$77.7 billion, or 2.8% of GDP for …

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Close to 300 newly graduated Metropolitan Transportation Authority (AMET) agents are now out on the streets of the National District and the province of Santo Domingo. AMET commander General Juan G. Brown Perez said that this is the AMET’s largest ever graduation group. The new agents received their training at the Metropolitan Transportation School as …

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The National Education Council (CNE) has modified the structure of the Dominican Republic’s education system. From now on, primary school will be grades 1-6 and secondary education will be considered to be grades 7 through 12. During Tuesday’s session, chaired by Minister Carlos Amarante Baret, the council decided to divide the schooling according to developmental …

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Residents of the Dominican Republic will be paying higher consumer prices come January 2014 as an increase in taxes that were approved for gradual implementation in the November 2012 Tax Reform Law 253-12 kicks in. Increases in the ITBIS from 8% to 11% will affect the cost of products including yoghurt, butter, sugar, coffee, oil …

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Steel exports from the Dominican Republic reached half a billion dollars last year and generate some 5,000 direct and indirect jobs, according to El Nuevo Diario. Steel is exported to Puerto Rico, Haiti, the United States, and Central and South America, according to Omar Castellanos, the executive director of the Dominican Steel Association. Castellanos stated …

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Falcondo has announced it will close its mining operations. The company will gradually let go personnel and only keep maintenance staff. The decision could affect around 800 employees and many more suppliers. It will also have a major effect on commerce in Bonao, which depends on the money circulated by the company. The company said …

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Most medical staff is back at work at public hospitals in the Dominican Republic after a 72-hour work stoppage in demand for wage increases in the 2014 National Budget. Nevertheless, according to reports, nurses will remain on strike at the Jose Maria Cabral y Baez Hospital in Santiago and the Pascasio Toribio Bencosme Hospital in …

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The judge for Permanent Attention of the judicial district of San Cristobal has sent the two Buitrago brothers to three months of preventive custody. Colombians Huber Buitrago Ruiz and Angel Maria Buitrago Vacca are accused of falsifying public documents and criminal association. Judge Jervin Nidel Koury believes that there is a strong likelihood that the …

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