2018 – Page 26

The National District municipality and the Listín Diario newspaper are inviting to a Christmas concert, “La Gran Gala de Navidad 2018” on Friday, 30 November 2018 at 8pm at the Plaza España in the Colonial City. Milly Quezada and Gabriel will be performing together with the Orquesta Filarmónica Molina, directed by Maestro José Antonio Molina. …

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The popular Latin pop band Bacilos is booked for a performance at the Hard Rock Live on Friday, 23 November 2018 as of 10pm. The show, “Donde Nos Quedamos” is part of their 2018 Tour. Tickets start at RD$2,060. The group has had several hits on the Billboard Latin charts and had considerable success in …

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Ever since Plaza Lama joined the US Black Friday frenzy and had record sales, the last Friday in November has become the biggest sales day in the Dominican Republic. Leading up to Black Friday, several stores and shopping centers have been announcing sales. But many consumers have already checked out what they want to buy, …

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El Dia sports writer Renaldo Bodden says the regular season of the 2018-2019 Winter Professional Baseball Championship is the most hard-fought of tournaments that he recalls with all the teams bunched together in the standings. In fact, only two games separate the teams from the top to the bottom of the standings. With slightly more …

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Osiris Guzman has proclaimed his innocence of charges of corruption while serving as president of the Dominican Football Federation. Guzman has said he will appeal FIFA’s decision. On 12 October 2018, the adjudicatory chamber of the independent Ethics Committee has banned Osiris Guzmán, president of the Dominican Republic Football Association (Fedofutbol), for ten years from …

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He was known as the head of the much-feared intelligence service of cruel Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo. For years people have accepted the story that Abbes was ambushed and killed by the Ton Ton Macoutes in Port-au-Prince, Haiti in 1967, seven years after the Trujillo regime was toppled. However, the whereabouts of his remains have …

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The National Drug Control Agency (DNCD) and Specialized Airport Security Corps (CESAC) agents announced 20 packages of cocaine weighing 20.8 kg were confiscated at the Las Americas International Airport (SDQ) on 20 November 2018. The drugs were stored in a suitcase one of the deposits of an airplane bound for Paris, France. A DNCD press …

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The executive vice president of the Foundation Institutionality and Justice (Finjus), Servio Tulio Castaños Guzmán said the authorities should offer a detailed explanation about the government’s deal with judicial institutions in the United States that allowed for the entry of convicted Cuban drug dealer Augusto (Willie) Falcón to enter and reside in the country. He …

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The Presidency website added a press release issued jointly by the Ministry of Interior & Police, the Attorney General Office and the National Police on 21 November 2018 whereby these indicate that deported Cuban convicted drug trafficker Augusto (Willie) Falcón is in the country only temporarily after the government accepted a request made by a …

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The Constitutional Court validated the agreement signed by the Dominican Republic with the United States for international tax compliance and to implement the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA), signed in Santo Domingo on 15 September 2016. The ruling is TC/0404/18. The FATCA allows for the automatic exchange of information for taxation purposes. FATCA is …

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