2016News

No decision yet on Notary Law

The Constitutional Court has not ruled on the complaint submitted by the Commercial Banking Association (ABA), the Association of Savings and Credit Banks and Credit Corporations (ABANCORD) and the Dominican League of Savings and Loans Associations (LIDAAPI) who claim that the new Notary Law violates the Constitution. The court, chaired by Milton Rau Guevara and …
2016News

Cubans deported

On Sunday, 7 February 2016, the Migration Department deported nine Cubans who had been arrested by the Dominican Armada (Navy) as they were trying to reach Puerto Rico illegally by boat. They were named as Yaneisy Mesa, Jorge Felix Villarrando, William Terrero Ortiz, Lisandra Rodriguez Aguilera, Joel Martinez Luis, Junior Castillo Jerez, Yadier Gonzalez, Jean …
2016News

Medina spokesman criticizes Vargas Llosa award

Presidential spokesman Roberto Rodriguez Marchena has distanced President Medina from the award granted by a Ministry of Culture jury to Nobel Prize for Literature winner Mario Vargas Llosa. In 2013 Vargas Llosa played a prominent role in a campaign against the Dominican Republic after the Constitutional Court ruling 168-13 ordered a restructuring of immigration status …
2016News

AIRD confirms PR industries coming to the DR

The Dominican Republic Industries Association (AIRD) has confirmed recent reports that many Puerto Rican manufacturers are moving their operations to the Dominican Republic. AIRD executive vice president Circe Almanzar says that the association is working with the Puerto Rican manufacturers’ association to help with the moves. She said the Puerto Rico Industry Association has proposed …