2017 – Page 53

Royalty Dance Company presents 70 contemporary dancers on stage at the Palacio de Bellas Artes on Saturday, 28 October 2017 at 8:30pm. “The Royalty Experience” is a production by Erick Guzman. The Royalty Dance Company recently won an award at The World of Dance Panama 2017 championship. Choreographer and director Erick Guzman was the choreographer …

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The Dominican Association of Export Free Zones (Adozona) highlighted that the trade free zones sector exports in 2016 made up 58% of all Dominican exports. 2016 was a record year for Dominican free zone exports that reached RD$5.5 billion. The president of Adozona, Federico Domínguez Aristy, shared the results during the annual lunch of the …

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Acento is carrying a report on the multimillionaires in the Medina cabinet. The report reveals that the stated wealth of the ministers and President Danilo Medina and Vice President Margarita Cedeno adds up to around RD$3 billion. The report only takes into account the written statement of wealth, a legal requirement. As of 2016, government …

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On Wednesday 25 October 2017, the Superior Administrative Court (TSA) heard the request from the Z101 broadcaster Álvaro Arvelo, asking them to annul the resolution from the National Commission of Public Spectacles and Radio (CNEPR) that suspended him for 20 days, following disparaging comments he made about Dominican Republic founding father Juan Pablo Duarte on …

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The Neighborhood Group from Playa Cofresi, in Puerto Plata has complained that the Lifestyle Holidays Vacation Club (LHVC) is taking over and privatizing the beach and the company has destroyed and built on green areas in complicity with the municipal and national authorities linked to Tourism and the Environment. Chris Coates and Amaury Germán McKinney, …

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Florinda Rojas, director of the National Institute of Migration of the Dominican Republic, is encouraging the Migration Agency (DGM) to create a border resident card that would facilitate the movement of people who depend on bi-national trade on the border with Haiti. “There are many people who depend on border trade,” said Rojas. “There is …

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Dozens of people who visited the Central Electoral Board (JCE) officers on Tuesday, 24 October 2017, had to be turned away, due to a system-wide electronic failure at the Central Electoral Board Offices on Tuesday, 24 October 2017. As reported in Listín Diario, security team closed the doors to the JCE so that the press …

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The Central Electoral Board ordered reinforcing controls at all birth declaration offices that operate at public hospitals. Actions were ordered to strengthen security for the PARC System (Program for Access to the Civil Registry) and ID List (Maestro de Cedulados) to avoid forgeries and other irregularities. Earlier this year, former judge Juan Miguel Castillo Pantaleón …

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The government has announced the construction of the Jardín Botánico “Profesor Eugenio de Jesús Marcano” and the Central Park to provide Santiago with over a million square meters of green public space. The recreational and educational areas have already been planted with thousands of trees of native species, including guayacán, caracolí, roble, campeche, candelón, arraiján, …

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Minister of Environment Francisco Domínguez Brito signed collaborative agreements with Haitian environment authorities on 24 October 2017, in Port-au-Prince. Domínguez met in the Haitian capital with Pierre Simon Georges, in charge of environmental affairs in Haiti. As reported in a Ministry of Environment press release, both parties agreed to joint actions for bilateral and cross-border …

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