2016 – Page 19

President Danilo Medina has congratulated the Dominican Women’s Volleyball team on their victory in the final of Group 2 of the World Grand Prix 2016 that ended on Sunday, 19 June 2016 in Varna, Bulgaria. The letter was addressed to Cristobal Marte Hoffiz, the president of the Dominican Republic National Women’s Volleyball Team Project. He …

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The Ministry of Tourism (Mitur) is promoting a project to restore a walkway along the walls of the Colonial City. Architect Maribel Villalona said that the restoration of the 16th century walls would provide a new route for tourists to see the Colonial City as part of the Colonial City Tourism Promotion Program with funding …

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Dominican Telecommunications Institute (Indotel) president Gedeon Santos has told directors of the Confederacion Dominicana de Taxistas Turisticos (Codotatur) that it is beyond Indotel’s remit to control Uber. Santos said nevertheless that he is in favor of global businesses such as Uber being subject to some legal controls, but warned that there is no legislation to …

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Former Miss World Mariasela Alvarez, now a TV show host, has used her Facebook page to protest the fiscal reform promoted by the Medina government. Fiscal reform in the Dominican Republic over the past few years has meant more taxes for the paying public. Alvarez criticized government spokesman Roberto Rodriguez Marchena for saying that more …

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In an editorial in Diario Libre on Tuesday 21 June 2016, editor Ines Aizpun writes that winning the Presidency with 60% of the vote is not enough to get backing for an increase in taxes. She says that in order to pass fiscal reform, the government will have to make a show of reducing its …

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The president of the of the Dominican Justice System Observatory, lawyer Cesar Amadeo Peralta has warned that if the population does not wake up, one day they will be surprised by a new firearms law whose main object will be to disarm civilians, including shop owners, businesspeople, professionals and all who currently say they need …

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The National Executive Committee of the Dominican Teachers’ Association (ADP) is calling on its members to reject the new grade registration system for the next school year, saying that it is too stressful and will require too many extra hours for completion. ADP president Eduardo Hidalgo is asking Education Minister Carlos Amarante Baret to call …

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Outgoing Santiago Mayor Gilberto Serulle was questioned by the Office for Specialized Prosecution against Administrative Corruption (PEPCA) on Monday, 20 June 2016, about supposed irregularities during his time in office. His term ends on 16 August 2016. Serulle was accompanied by his lawyers, Guillermo Estrella and Nicolas Alvarez, to the interview with Pepca director Laura …

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A Santiago judge has clarified that singer Martha Heredia, currently serving a jail sentence for drug smuggling, is allowed to carry out some public performances, such as the one she did at Miss World Dominicana contest last week. The judge confirmed that although she is serving a sentence at the Rafey Women’s Jail in Santiago …

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