2018 – Page 3

The Ministry of Environment now under Minister Angel Estevez would seem to have a love affair with avocados. As reported in Diario Libre, the lucrative business of exporting avocados has the Ministry of Environment looking the other way and not exercising its mandate to preserve Dominican forests and protected areas. Investigative reporter Tania Molina of …

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The civic society movement, Participación Ciudadana (PC), gave a press conference on Tuesday, 18 December 2018, to complain about the lack of advances in the Dominican Republic in matters of fighting administrative corruption and impunity in 2018. “The latter was demonstrated by the refusal of the Chamber of Deputies to investigate advertising and political advice …

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In the Dominican Republic, new evidence remitted by the Brazilian aviation company, Embraer to the Attorney General Office in accordance to an agreement to share information on the bribes the company admitted to paying to secure a Dominican government aircraft procurement order, has apparently not led to the start of the case against those that …

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Former director of the Migration Agency (DGM), Jose Ricardo Taveras recommends that the legal advisor of the President, Flavio Dario Espinal, retract the Punta Cana Pre-Clearance Agreement signed by the Ministry of Foreign Relations with the government of the United States. The Presidency had sent the document to the Constitutional Court following the normal procedure …

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President Danilo Medina traveled to Barahona for the inauguration of the second phase of the EgeHaina Parque Eolico Larimar windfarm. The development reportedly called for an investment of US$100 million. The second phase is located in Enriquillo, Barahona. The second phase adds 14 Vestas V-117 wind turbines, the most powerful in the region, with installed …

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President Danilo Medina was in Santiago yesterday for the ground breaking of the construction of the Livera Freemium Spaces high-rise development. The real estate project is located on Avenida Hispanoamericana and calls for a US$36 million investment. The construction is funded by SBC Master Fund, a Cayman Island registered company, and Grupo Estrella, a major …

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The most popular careers in the Dominican Republic are in education, law, engineering, business administration and accounting. As reported in Listin Diario, in 2018, the country’s universities produced 28,328 new graduates at the graduate and post-graduate levels. Many of these graduates have already been actively seeking employment, a difficult task for graduates without job experience …

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Few people realize that two thirds of the population of Greater Santo Domingo lives in the eastern part of the city. Only a third lives in the National District, the real capital city. The good news for Santo Domingo East municipality is the start of operations of the Camara de Comercio y Produccion de la …

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Economist Pavel Isa Contreras says that national exports this year could break the US$11 billion mark, a new record. The total would be 9% above the total for 2017. Isa reports that the Observatorio Dominicano de Comercio Internacional (ODCI) in its quarterly report dated November 2018 says that the percentage increase is three times the …

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In its last session before the Christmas holiday break, the ruling PLD majority Senate passed an authorization for the placement of RD$190 billion in loans to meet the deficit of the 2019 National Budget. The request had been received from the Presidency. In the same session, the senators approved a US$300 million contingency loan from …

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