2013 – Page 87

Electricity blackouts have increased in some parts of the National District and Santo Domingo province over the last week. Residents in Arroyo Hondo, Cuesta Hermosa, Arroyo Hondo Viejo, Cuesta de Arroyo Hondo and Praderas de Arroyo Hondo have complained that they have had two-hour outages in the afternoons for more than seven days despite being …

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More than 4,000 taxi drivers in Santiago parked their vehicles at the entrance to the city for two hours yesterday morning, Tuesday 1 October, demanding that the government include them in the social security medical benefits plan. The protest was organized by the National Center for Transport Workers (CNTT) to which the Cibao Taxi Federation …

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Coming to Santo Domingo for the first time, the all-girl metal tribute band will play at Hard Rock Cafe on Columbus Park in the Colonial City on Thursday, 17 October as of 9pm. They have recorded three albums: “World’s Only Female Tribute to Iron Maiden”, “Route 666” and “The Root of All Evil”. Their lineup …

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Spanish singer Concha Buika, best known for her flamenco fusion style, is booked for a Friday, 29 November performance at the National Theater in Santo Domingo. She is on her fifth world tour to promote her new album, “En mi piel” (Under My Skin). She has received a Latin Grammy nomination for one of her …

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Yesterday, Monday 30 September, the Executive Branch handed over the proposed RD$605 billion 2014 National Budget to Congress. Senate president Reinaldo Pared Perez received the budget proposal from Treasury Minister Simon Lizardo and Budget director Luis Reyes. According to the Constitution, the Executive Branch must deliver the budget to Congress no later than 1 October …

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The Tax Office (DGII) will start to issue the vehicle taxations stickers (marbetes) today, Tuesday 1 October. The sticker renewal period runs until noon on December 31. They can be renewed at around 700 locations throughout the country. Around a million vehicle owners are expected to purchase the stickers, generating RD$1.58 billion for the government. …

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The United Nations is studying the decision by the Dominican Constitutional Court that orders enforcing the non-granting of Dominican citizenship to children with parents with illegal status in the country. The decision orders this to be backdated to 1929 when the term “in transit” was first included in the Dominican Constitution. In 2005, the Supreme …

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The Chief of Staff of the Dominican army, Major General Ruben Dario Paulino Sem, informed this week that Haitian illegal immigration is on the increase. For the year beginning 16 August 2012, the security forces detained 47,700 Haitians illegally entering the Dominican Republic. They were repatriated to Haiti, in coordination with the Department of Migration. …

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Victor Calderon, the director of the La Altagracia Maternity Hospital, the largest in Santo Domingo, said that every year around 4,000 Haitian women give birth at the center. He said this costs the hospital around RD$120 million. He made the statements during an interview with a Chamber of Deputies public health commission. “We estimate that …

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One of the young men who was expelled by the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo (UASD) and later cleared by the Upper Administrative Court (TSA) who said he should be reinstated as a student has denied that the students who were suspended at the same time as him were involved in an incident in San …

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