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The Ministry of Culture has announced that 180 dance troupes from 31 provinces and the National District will be parading along the Malecon on Sunday 2 March. The event brings together the best of carnival from all around the country. The Ministry of Culture announced that this year’s parade would begin at 10am from Malecon …

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The 2014 ITTF Latin American Championships will open in Santo Domingo on Tuesday, 1 April. They will continue through Sunday, 6 April bringing together the region’s best young table tennis players. The DR successfully organized the event in 2002 and 2008. The tournament follows the celebration of the Youth Olympic Games Qualification Tournament for Latin …

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It took 19 years for the government to decide to just do it, and one year for the Medina administration to get it done. The Presidential inauguration ceremony for the US$130 million highway takes place today, Monday 24 February at 4pm. The Consorcio Ecovias built the 26km beltway that enables travelers to avoid crossing through …

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Secretary of State of Puerto Rico David Bernier Rivera was in Santo Domingo over the weekend of 22-23 February for a meeting with Minister of Foreign Relations Carlos Morales Troncoso. As reported in El Caribe, the topics discussed included strengthening relations, economic and trade development, energy, culture, education and farm production. http://elnuevodiario.com.do/app/article.aspx?id=364430

A team of archeologists led by Greek consultant Agamemnon Gus Pantel is using new radar technology to monitor what is beneath the key 15th and 16th century streets of colonial Santo Domingo as part of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)-funded US$30 million Colonial City urban renewal project. The main focus is the area surrounding the …

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Aquabus routes are planned to be operational in a year, directly benefiting some 400,000 inhabitants, mainly on the east bank of the Ozama River, project general coordinator Patricia Cuevas told El Dia. People living in Los Manguitos, La Zurza, Simon Bolivar, Los Guandules on the western side, and residents of Los Tres Brazos Norte, La …

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With the support of the Catholic Bishops in the Dominican Republic, Central Electoral Board (JCE) president Roberto Rosario is pressing for the Political Parties Bill to be passed. The bill has been ignored in Congress by all governments. As reported in Diario Libre, Rosario said that he has begun a campaign to get more people …

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Business leaders in Bonao are advocating the idea of using the abandoned Bonao Free Zone industrial installations to install packaging plants for produce from the many farm nurseries in the area, as reported in Hoy. The Bonao Chamber of Commerce members point out that 14 industrial plants have been closed for five years, which could …

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Philip Morris Dominicana says it invested more than RD$121 million in 2013, of which RD$85 million went to training and financing of tobacco producers in the provinces of Santiago, Montecristi and Valverde. The company said that in the past seven years some 26,000 tareas (1 tareas = 629 square meters) of Burley tobacco (Tabaco rubio), …

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The Public Electricity Corporation (CDEEE) corporate unit payroll has increased from 754 employees in August 2012 at the start of executive vice president Ruben Jimenez Bichara to 934 at present. This means the corporate payroll has increased from RD$32.7 million to RD$41.8 million.