2017 – Page 58

The Ministry of Industry, Commerce and SMEs announced measures that would be taken by the government to reduce the tax burden on small and medium sized businesses and encourage more businesses to formalize their organization. Minister of Industry and Commerce and Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises, Nelson Toca Simo, spoke at the opening of the Semana …

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38% of Dominicans told SIN-Mark Penn pollsters that crime and delinquency are the greatest concerns. In 2012, crime and deliquency had been rated with 15%. Unemployment is the second greatest concern, with 17%. Corruption is third, with 14%. Corruption in 2012 was rated 6%. Next follow cost of living, inflation and the economy with 13%, …

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Lawyer Ramón Ramírez, brother of murdered UASD professor Yuniol Ramírez, told El Caribe on Wednesday, 18 October, that his brother was murdered at the UASD. He said that visuals that are part of the investigation prove that when the Ford Ranger blue pickup left the university campus, it already had a bullet hole in the …

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NCDN, Channel 37, has released the taped conversation between Argenis Contreras González and José Antonio Mercado Blanco (El Grande) supposedly after the murder of UASD law professor Yuniol Ramírez took place. Contreras is accused by state prosecutors of firing the shot that killed the lawyer. In the taped conversation, Contreras expresses his confidence that all …

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The police has announced that they have arrested four Venezuelanas, including a woman, accused of robbing RD$1,065,000 from a citizen in the National District. According to the police report, those arrested are Joaquín Edwardo Proda, aged 40; Manuel Bravo, 32; Gregorio Medina, 29, and Norma Cecilia Martínez, 34. The money was inside a backpack in …

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A San Cristobal Judge who was suspected for changing the jail of Pedro Alejandro Castillo Paniagua (Quirinito) could not be interviewed yesterday, Wednesday 18 October 2017 as he has left the country. Willy de Jesús Núñez left for Panama last Monday, 16 October. The media reports he is due to return to the country on …

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The Santo Domingo province court under Judge Leonarda Quezada meets on Thursday, 19 October 2017 at 2pm to hear pre-trial custody measures against the three suspects involved in the murder of UASD law professor Yuniol Ramirez that took place in Santo Domingo on Wednesday, 11 October 2017. A fourth suspect, Argenis Contreras, is believed to …

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Mayor David Collado cut the inaugural ribbon for Dominicana Moda 2017, the leading fashion week in the Dominican Republic and the Caribbean. In its 12th year, the collection of runway shows and beauty and fashion exhibit this year is happening from 18-21 October 2017 in the Colonial City, with the runways at the Fortaleza Ozama …

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The Santo Domingo Public Prosecution Service has accused the former director of the Metropolitan Bus Service Office (OMSA) Manuel Rivas Medina, of being a member of a criminal network that committed acts of corruption, prevarication against the state and murdered lawyer Yuniol Ramírez Ferreras. Prosecutors are asking for the case to be declared complex, which …

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Dominican political analyst Rosario Espinal, in an op-ed piece in Hoy newspaper on 18 October 2017, writes on how corruption and lack of professionalism have affected Dominican institutions since the 31-year Trujillo regime, through the 22-year government of Balaguer, the 12-year PRD government to the present 17 years of PLD government. “The 17 years of …

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