2014

DR1 Daily News will not be regularly updated or mailed over most of the next few days of the Christmas and New Year holidays. While the digest will not be published on Tuesday, 30 December, Wednesday, 31 December, Thursday, 1 January and Friday, 2 January, the news will be compiled for the Monday, 5 January …

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As of 1pm on the last day of the year, all vehicles need to display the 2015 stickers. Car owners have had more than three months to secure the sticker known as the ‘marbete.’ As of the 31st, a RD$600 fine needs to be paid for renewal and only the DGII offices will be selling …

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Dominican Foreign Minister Andres Navarro believes that the restoration of US-Cuban trade relations will benefit the Dominican Republic. He says the DR will benefit because the opening will put the travel world spotlight on the Caribbean and the DR could benefit from multi-destination opportunities. Meanwhile, Alberto Caamano, business counselor at the Dominican Embassy in Cuba …

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The Ministry of Energy and Mines has announced that Schlumberger Surenco, the Latin American affiliate of Schlumberger, has been awarded the tender to create the National Hydrocarbons Data Base (BNDH). Other participants in the tender were Halliburton, Baker-Hughes and Ecolog, as reported by the Ministry of Mines. Schlumberger is regarded as the world’s leading supplier …

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The Tax Agency (DGII) has released the level of wages that will be tax exempt for 2015. Employees making up to RD$399,923 in wages in the year will not pay income tax. That works out to around RD$33,326 a month, which is lower than in 2014. This is less than the RD$33,350 authorized for 2014. …

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Bulletin No. 97 from the Quisqueya Literacy Plan under the Department of Special Programs of the Presidency (Digepep), dated 12 December 2014, reports that a total of 454,721 people learned to read and write this year, bringing the overall total since the program began at the start of the Medina administration in early 2013 to …

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The Office of Supervisory Engineers of Public Works of the Presidency announced the opening of a provisional parking area in the Colonial City of Santo Domingo. The parking area is in the Plazoleta Espana, on Calle Vicente Celestino Duarte with Atarazana. It can hold 200 vehicles, and another 100 will be soon available. The parking …

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The Medina administration (decree 486-14) has appointed Father Gerardo Ramirez Paniagua as the new liaison between the Catholic Church and the government. Father Ramirez was the chaplain of the Presidential Palace. Earlier this month, Father Manuel Ruiz resigned following his disagreement with the President’s position on abortion. Ruiz is remembered for heading a press conference …

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The Constitutional Court of the Dominican Republic has confirmed the validity of the Basic Technical Cooperation Agreement between the Dominican Republic and the Bahamas. The agreement promotes technical cooperation, regulates migration, trade and investment. The agreement also seeks to reduce illegal fishing. The agreement was signed in Nassau, Bahamas on 24 July 2014. The approval …

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The Constitutional Court has released the Central Electoral Board (JCE) from being subject to government procurement rulings under the General Department for Procurement (DGCP), a dependency of the Ministry of Hacienda. The Constitutional Court ruling 305-14 indicates that no body of the Executive Branch can interfere in decisions by other public branches and autonomous constitutional …

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