2016 – Page 5

Ilegales Concert Party is happening at the Blue Mall Hard Rock Cafe in Santo Domingo on Saturday, 9 July 2016. Vladimir Dotel and his group are performing after the good reviews they received from the public at the recent Soberano Awards. Tickets are for sale at Uepa Tickets, Supermercados Nacional, Jumbo and the Hard Rock …

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Dr. Edgar Perez’s Sociedad ProArte Latinoamericana presents the short humorous 3-act operetta, “The Gypsy Princess” (La Princesa de las Csardas) at the National Theater on 15-16 July 2016 at 8:30pm. Participating in the performance is the 64 piece Orquesta Filarmonica, directed by Carlos Andres Mejia Zuluaga, a Venezuelan-Colombian conductor who resides in the Dominican Republic. …

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President Danilo Medina made a surprise visit to Hondo Valle in Elias Pina province on the border with Haiti and emphasized the need for a concerted effort to reforest the region. The President named a committee to draft the reforestation plan. The committee includes Agriculture Minister Angel Estevez; the director of the Dominican Agrarian Institute, …

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Spokesman for the Medina administration, Roberto Rodriguez de Marchena, said on 4 July 2016, that the government agrees with the proposals made by the president of the National Business Council (Conep), Rafael Blanco Canto, that called for changes to the Electoral Law, approving of the Political Parties Bill, passing of the Bill on Fiscal Responsibility …

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According to Health Minister Altagracia Guzman Marcelino the country is going to change the curriculum taught in medical schools to reduce the high level of infant mortality. The Minister stated that some of the deaths of newborns can be attributed to the almost 100,000 Cesarean sections carried out in the country each year. Director of …

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The Ministry of Public Health again is recommending couples to postpone pregnancy until the peak of the Zika virus outbreak passes. The Ministry has already reported the first microcephaly in a recent birth. Zika is linked to microcephaly in newborns. Dr. Mercedes Rodriguez Silver, deputy minister for Collective Health, said avoiding pregnancies is the most …

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The Ministry of Education has plans to distribute 11 million free textbooks during the new school year that starts on 22 August 2016. The textbooks will be for all grade levels in public schools. Nilda Taveras, Director General of Education Media at the Ministry of Education, has offered assurances that the books will be sent …

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The US$ dollar was sold for RD$46 to US$1 at banks nationwide on Monday, 4 July 2016. As reported in Diario Libre, on Monday the peso depreciated 3 cents from its Friday price. A report in Diario Libre explains the uniformity in the banks posting the same rate is due to the negotiation power of …

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There are 467 non-profits that have not filed the required income and expenses documents to the government so far this year. Law 122-05 requires institutions that receive money from the government to report on their finances. These 467 organizations have a collective budget of RD$310,676,529 for this fiscal year according to a list created by …

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