2018News

University scholarships offered to study in Taiwan

The Embassy of the Republic of China (Taiwan) is promoting that Dominicans apply for undergraduate, graduate and doctoral studies in Taiwan. The scholarships are granted by the International Cooperation and Development Fund (ICDF 2018). The scholarships are open to Dominican nationals older than 18 years with a minimum high school education. They range from four …
2018News

Hotels Association move to technical discussions table high-rise complaint

The Association of Hotels and Tourism in the Dominican Republic (Asonahores) will be meeting with the experts at the Ministry of Tourism (Mitur) to look for solutions to assure the continuation of what they call the “successful model of tourism development”. Asonahores had protested a recent resolution of the Ministry of Tourism that authorized high-rise …
2018News

Congress fails to pass political parties and electoral bill, amended penal and civil codes

Political considerations seem to have again prevailed to impede legislators from passing the key political and electoral bills that have languished in the National Congress for dozens of years. Political differences among leading politicians, and this time around primarily between dissident groups of the ruling PLD party, have stagnated these bills that would better organize …
2018News

AMET checking for marbetes

Starting Tuesday, 9 January 2018, agents from the Metropolitan Transport Authority (AMET) began to impound vehicles circulating without this year’s taxation sticker, known here as the “marbete”. AMET spokesman, Colonel Rafael Tejada Baldera, said that all agents had been instructed to stop and fine drivers of vehicles without the sticker, and that the vehicle would …