2014 – Page 213

Officials from the Department of Taxes (DGII) closed down the famous Barra Payan on 30 de Marzo for repeated violations of tax reporting requirements. DGII officials said that the sandwich and drinks place has repeatedly issued bills to consumers without the corresponding tax numbers and that the establishment had been fined before for the same …

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The Santiago Water and Sewer Corporation (Coraasan) will suspend water supply to most of the city of Santiago today as part of its water system maintenance program. Specifically, Coraasan will provide maintenance to the water treatment plant in the sector of Nibaje. Starting at 8am and continuing until 5pm, the scheduled maintenance will affect Pueblo …

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The Inter American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) reported yesterday on the “arbitrary” refusal to recognize the nationality of numerous persons, principally those of Haitian extraction, in the Dominican Republic. The commission, chaired by Jamaican Tracy Robinson, presented yesterday before the Judicial and Political Affairs Committee of the Permanent Council of the Organization of American …

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An individual identified as Santos Nolasco Mejia, who had “invested” more than a million pesos in the TelexFree scam, has been reported missing since 18 April. Nolasco Mejia left a note saying that he was going to take his life because of the pressure of the debt he had incurred was unbearable. According to the …

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The Colombian Andres Berroa and/or Rene Rueda Martinez (el Capi) who served three years of a five year sentence in Najayo for his part in the Paya drug case, was once again arrested on Monday night by the National Department for Drug Control (DNCD) and the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) while on board a …

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With expressions of gratitude to God and inviting all Dominicans to follow the example of people working to help others, engineer Francina Hungria and the Catholic priest Gregorio Alegria Armendariz received last night their awards as the “Man and Woman of the Year 2013”. The statuettes of recognition for Hungria and Alegria were presented to …

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Eddy Herrera will be one of the jurors giving his opinion on emerging artistic stars in Colombia. Herrera has been asked to sit on the jury of Idol Colombia. This season’s Idol Colombia, which is produced by RCN Television, will air from 20 May through 20 August. Herrera’s publicist informed the press that the Dominican …

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President Danilo Medina was in Sanchez Ramirez province, in the north central region yesterday, 22 April 2014, to inaugurate eight schools with a total of 87 classrooms that will serve 3,915 pupils. The cost of the project was RD$212,489,000. The project included the construction the elementary schools Salome Urena,Juan Sanchez Ramirez, Ana Martina Jose, El …

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On occasion of the celebration of Earth Day, the Ministry of the Environment presented findings of the 2012 Land Use Study. The analysis of satellite images shows that the Dominican Republic has a total area of 48,230 square kilometers; that is less than the 48,442 square kilometers that has been traditionally reported as the total …

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The JCE is accepting the presentation of the ID for the issuing of the new ID card in the new format, as reported in El Dia. A birth certificate, marriage certificate or job proof is only necessary if the information is to be changed on the new ID card. Regardless, Diario Libre reports that there …

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