2017 – Page 118

The Roundtable of the Commonwealth Countries in the Dominican Republic is organizing the Seminar on How to Do Business in Jamaica. The objective of the workshop is to help identify new business and investment opportunities for Dominicans in Jamaica. The event is a follow up to the recent visit made by Prime Minister Andrew Holness …

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The Ministry of Culture announced the Santo Domingo International Book Fair 2018 would be dedicated to Dominican poet and essayist Lupo Hernández Rueda, a member of the so-called Generation 48. Born 29 July 1930, Hernández is also a lawyer specializing in labor law and university professor. He has received the National Poetry Award on five …

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Ministry of Culture announced the creation of a new fund for Dominican arts. The new RD$20 million fund seeks to support the creation, innovation and professional practice of the arts, responding to the constant demands from artists and individual cultural promoters. The fund is available to Dominican citizens. Minister Pedro Verges made the announcement during …

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The National District city government has announced that it will permit trucks to transit on the Malecón (Paseo Padre Billini, Av. George Washington and Autopista 30 de Mayo) until noon on weekdays and until midnight on weekends. Trucks are banned from noon to midnight on the section of the Malecón between Av. Abraham Lincoln and …

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The executive director of the National Transport & Transit Institute (Intrant), engineer Claudia Franchesca de los Santos says her department is working with the Ministry of Education to provide public transportation for school children in several communities nationwide. She said Transit Law 63-17 bans children under eight from riding on motorcycles, so the school busing …

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President Danilo Medina appointed Marcelo Salazar Alberti as the new director of the Foreign Commerce and Trade Treaty Management Agency (Dicoex) of the Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Small Business (MICM). He replaces César Dargam who recently resigned to take the position as executive director of the National Business Council (Conep). The announcement of the …

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Haiti and the Dominican Republic stand to gain big from a recent change in the Canadian rules of origin for general preferential tariffs. The new measure is expected to bring a significant increase in the export market for Dominican free zones to the Canadian market for t-shirts and pants. The change follows months of joint …

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President Danilo Medina met last week with representatives of minority political of the Bloque Progresista and other politicians that backed his past bid for re-election in the 2016 general election. An alliance with minority parties and past opposition parties, mainly the PRD, allowed for sufficient votes to change the 2012 Constitution that banned consecutive re-election …

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With the performances of Hony Estrella, Evelyna Rodríguez, José Guillermo Cortines and Laura Leclerc, “Tres” will be staged on 11, 12 and 13 August 2017, at the Palacio de Bellas Artes. The comedy is directed by Richardson Díaz and produced by Natacha Rojas and Haffet Saba. The plot involves three former class mates who meet …

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The Embassy of India invites the public to a gastronomical festival on occasion of the 70th anniversary of the independence of India. For the event, the Embassy of India and the Restaurant Agatha of the Embassy Suites by Hilton will be serving dishes prepared by two chefs traveling from India for the festival. The India …

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