2018 – Page 51

Grupo Nubes de Gloria has opened the first private cemetery in the outskirts of Puerto Plata, following a market trend that has been successful in the capital city of Santo Domingo. The company says it has invested RD$300 million to open the first phase of the private cemeteries that will operate in Muñoz, near Montellano, …

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The statement by Raul Rizik, president of Mejía Arcalá, the company that imports the best-selling Milex powdered milk, may cost the company sales to tell by the reactions on social media. In a recent talk on occasion of the National Retailers’ Day, Rizik called for strengthening the family to in turn strengthen Dominican society. In …

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The numbers are increasing almost daily, but so far there are 26 men and two women from 14 political organizations who have come forward as presidential pre-candidates and, if successful, as presidential candidates in the 2020 elections. The largest number of candidates seeking the nomination of their party is the ruling Dominican Liberation Party (PLD) …

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The government allots to the Legislative Branch more funds than to three ministries together, as reported by Hoy newspaper. Data shows that the national legislature is one of the best paid in the region. The National Budget allotted the legislators RD$500 million in wages for 2019, or more than the funds of the Ministry of …

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The director of the Affiliates Information and Defense Agency (DIDA), Nelsida Marmolejos told El Dia newspaper reporters that red tape, lack of budget of her office to carry out a campaign to reach out to the possible beneficiaries, and lack of general knowledge of the procedures to follow by pension plan holders and their families …

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The Ministry of Foreign Relations (Mirex) is analyzing the legal appeal against the sanctions imposed on 124 Dominican fishermen and three captains arrested in Cuba and handed over to the Bahamian authorities. The fishermen were sentenced to six months in jail and fined US$52,000 each, while the captains of the boats were sentenced to one …

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Dominican free zone manufacturing exports are up more than US$430 million so far this year, says Federico Domínguez Aristy, president of the Dominican Association of Free Zones (Adozona). Manuel Enrique Tavares, one of the founders of the free zone industrial parks in the country, was the keynote speaker during the luncheon held to celebrate the …

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The governor of the Central Bank (BCRD), Héctor Valdez Albizu, has said that the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) increased by 6.9% in the period January to September 2018. This is the highest in the Latin American and Caribbean region. He said the Dominican economy has grown in accordance with expectations. International Accumulated inflation in September …

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The Ministry of Agriculture and the Special Fund for Agropecuarian Development (FEDA) are contributing RD$130 million to the Asociación Banileja de Productores de Mango (Abapromango) for the construction and equipping of a modern hydrothermal mango processing plant. The producers had requested the installation that they say could double the volume of mango exports to the …

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President Danilo Medina will travel on Tuesday or Wednesday of next week to China, reports El Dia. Earlier, El Nacional, of the same Corripio media group, had announced Medina would travel to China on Saturday, 27 October 2018. Medina has scheduled the trip for meeting with President Xi Jinping and for the signing of around …

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