2017 – Page 106

According to the Administrative Minister of the Presidency, José Ramón Peralta, there are only 176,000 illiterate people in the country and of these 110,000 have already begun learning how to read and write. Peralta says this is down from around 852,000 when the government began the war on illiteracy at the start of the first …

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The International Monetary Fund (IMF) says the Dominican Republic needs to propose a medium-term plan to increase the amount of tax revenue, while providing a more certain tax regime for taxpayers. The proposal is made at a time talks have yet to begin for the drafting of the National Statistics Pact as ordered by the …

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President Danilo Medina could make a first visit to the Netherlands Antilles — Aruba, Curacao and St. Maarten — during the first quarter of 2018, as reported in Willemstad. The visit would be part of Medina administration efforts to increase trade between the Dominican Republic and the Netherlands Antilles. In an important step towards this …

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Playing in Rosario, Argentina, on 20 August 2017, the Dominican Republic team defeated Peru 3-1 (25-18, 16-25, 25-22, 25-23) during the 2017 FIVB Volleyball Girls’ U18 World Championship. The top scorer for the game was Madeline Guillen, with 22 points. The DR had lost its first two games to Turkey and Japan. The DR next …

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Sports writer Bill Baer figured out that Minnesota Twins’ starter, 44-year old Bartolo Colon (Cy Young in 2005) is only the 18th pitcher in Major League Baseball history to have earned a victory against all 30 MLB teams in a career. Colon completed the 30th team on Sunday, 20 August 2017, when he was the …

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A 65-year old watchman was killed during an attack on an exchange house in Bavaro. The assailants threatened the administrator and made off with two million pesos. The victim was identified as Florencio Guerrero Reina, who was from La Romana and worked in the Rafa bureau de change, according to Colonel Marino Carvajal of the …

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The Customs Agency has confiscated a contraband shipment of around 10 million cigarettes with a value of RD$33 million during a raid at the docks in Haina Port. This is the seventh lot of illegal cigarettes of the Capital brand that Customs and the intelligence agencies have confiscated at Haina, the Caucedo Multimodal port and …

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Lajun Corporation, the company that manages the Duquesa garbage dump, has complained that the Santo Domingo East City Hall has not paid its monthly fee for the last three months, leading to a 10% decrease in the annual income of the company. The company said in a press release that it was the most poorly …

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Gildan, the Canadian textile manufacturer, recognized 150 elementary school students who had an outstanding year in 2016-2017. The company has sponsored several public schools every year for the past nine years. The recognized children study at eight public elementary schools located in Guerra, Bayaguana, Batey Esperanza in San Pedro de Macorís and Boca Chica. Gildan …

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The president of the Central Electoral Board (JCE), Julio César Castaños Guzmán, has set in motion an investigation following the complaints by former judge Juan Miguel Castillo Pantaleón, that data from Dominicans who have died at the Luis Eduardo Aybar and Francisco Moscoso Puello public hospitals is being recycled to provide documentation for Haitian immigrants. …

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