2017 – Page 238

Speaking during the Santo Domingo Hub fair (15-18 March 2017) organized by the Santo Domingo Chamber of Commerce, Nobel Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus urged governments to create new banking legislation to foster entrepreneurship among the young and the poor. “There are not enough jobs,” he said. Muhammad Yunus advocated that a fund be created so …

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The director of the Center for Export and Investment (CEI-RD), Luis Henry Molina, expects there soon will be the conditions for a boom in Dominican exports and investments. He said that recent studies published by the World Bank and Inter-American Development Bank have shown the DR is lacking a comprehensive export and investment strategy. Molina …

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Puerto Rican-Dominican singer Danny Rivera is booked for a 27 May 2017 concert, “Para toda la vida” at the Teatro La Fiesta of the Jaragua Renaissance. The concert is a repeat of an Amaury Sánchez production last year that received excellent reviews. The show will be staged on the occasion of Mother’s Day that, in …

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The Ministry of Culture is announcing its program to celebrate World Theater Day, that falls on 27 March 2017. This day is a celebration for those who appreciate the value and importance of the art form “theatre”, and acts as a wake-up-call for governments, politicians and institutions that have not yet recognized the theater’s immense …

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Team DR, a team of Dominican baseball stars as never before had been assembled, came up short against Team USA in the semi-finals of the World Baseball Classic. The USA defeated the DR 6-3 in the game at Pepco Park in San Diego on Saturday, 18 March 2017. The star of the game were Giancarlo …

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A fire that broke out at dawn at the airline counter side at Las Americas International Airport in Greater Santo Domingo was promptly put out without major inconveniences as reported on Friday, 17 March 2017. Aerodom, the company that manages the airport, said that around 4:15am smoke was reported coming out of a store, The …

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The Green March protestors met on Sunday, 19 March 2017 at 5pm at Independence Park in the Colonial City of Santo Domingo as part of the lighted torch march that visited key points all throughout the nation in the move to create increased awareness among citizens to call for an end to impunity for government …

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President Danilo Medina ordered full retirement with benefits for former Defense Minister, Mayor General Pedro Rafael Peña Antonio. Peña Antonio was Minister of Defense during the former President Leonel Fernandez administrations of 2004-2008 and 2008-2012. Peña Antonio is accused of receiving bribes in documents unsealed in October 2016 by a court of New York, in …

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The Tax Agency (DGII) alerts that on 31 March 2017 it will deactivate the tax code (RNC) of businesses that are not up to date with the 2008 corporate law that changed company structures. The RNC is needed to write off company expenses, file taxes and carry out legal transactions. The DGII has required that …

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The Ministry of Environment reported it would consider militarizing the Duquesa dump, the major site for garbage deposits for Greater Santo Domingo, if an agreement between management and six municipalities is not reached. On Friday, 16 March 2017, military assigned to the Ministry of Environment were briefly at the site, but did not stay on …

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