2016 – Page 56

The Central Electoral Board (JCE) has announced that it will issue duplicates of the new personal identity and voter registration ID (cedula) to anyone who had renewed the document and has lost it. The service will be available until 6pm on Friday 13 May 2016 free of charge. The JCE’s ID offices in the country …

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President Danilo Medina’s re-election campaign ends today, Thursday 12 May 2016, with what is expected to be the largest show of force by any political party. The campaign motorcade is scheduled to start at 3pm, setting out from Av. Nicolas de Ovando in northern Santo Domingo towards Av. Ortega y Gasset and then Calle Duarte …

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Sigma Dos poll forecast yesterday, Wednesday 11 May 2016 that President Danilo Medina will be re-elected with a vote of 64.6% to 30.8% for Luis Abinader of the PRM. A poll carried out from 7-9 May 2016 shows that Medina will receive 56% of votes cast for the PLD and another 8.7% from allies. Meanwhile, …

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Listin Diario carries a story on the saturation of the PLD ruling party propaganda and all the cartoons that are satirizing it. The newspaper jokes that it has got to the point where Dominicans will no longer be surprised to open a bag of potato chips and find a message inside urging them to vote …

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The Central Electoral Board (JCE) has ordered a ban on the sale of alcoholic drinks, firearms, political propaganda and meetings, shows on any media 24 hours before election day, Sunday, 15 May 2016. The regulation is part of Electoral Law No. 275-97 that authorizes the JCE to take temporary measures to guarantee the success of …

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After years of protests, often violent and led by activists from the Falpo group, the Santiago Water and Sewer Corporation (Coraasan) delivered a purchase order for RD$47 million yesterday, Wednesday, 11 May 2016 to the executives of the SANESAN Corporation to begin work on a new sewage system for the municipality of Licey Al Medio. …

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The Ministry of Industry and Commerce and authorities from the southwestern province of Pedernales have presented the measures that the government is planning to implement to promote economic development in the province as part of the Southern Region Development Plan that President Danilo Medina announced in 2015. The plan was presented by Ignacio Mendez, the …

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Gustavo Tavarez, the president of Maritima Dominicana, has been re-elected as president of the American Chamber of Commerce of the Dominican Republic (Amcham) for the 2016-2017 period. The rest of the members of the executive committee were also reelected in April. The results were made official during a general assembly at AmCham held on Tuesday, …

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Dozens of Puerto Rican businesspeople are exploring the Dominican Republic for investment opportunities in a number of areas, while other Puerto Ricans are arriving with work contracts in several sectors, especially hotels and tourism. El Nacional newspaper says that there has been considerable movement of Puerto Ricans to the Dominican Republic due to the economic …

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Traffic bottlenecks in Greater Santo Domingo cost the economy RD$48 million every day, according to a recent study by urban specialists for Decision Professional. The study, “How Much do Traffic Jams Cost Us?” used data from the Tax Agency (DGII) and the National Statistics Office (ONE). On average, approximately 320,000 vehicles use the roads every …

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