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Dominicans ‘cannot continue to tolerate bans’ from Haiti: Mogul
Santo Domingo.- US$75.0 million in losses is what the Haiti government’s ban on plastics means for Dominican Republic, which “cannot continue to tolerate bans being imposed.” Dominican Republic Industries Association (AIRD) president Ligia Bonetti on Monday said Haiti takes its measures without rationality and without any support and that the latest ban could lead to losses of more than US$75…
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Dominican Republic industries want to take Haiti to court
Santo Domingo.- Dominican Republic’s business leaders propose charging Haiti at the World Trade Organization and other international bodies for imposing non-tariff barriers to local exports, in the heels of Port-au-Prince’s months-long ban on the imports of eggs, chickens, and plastic products as of last week. Haiti’s Private Sector Economic Forum approved the restrictions against Dominican products Last week, and also…
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Attorney general warns about illegal drugs trade
ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC – Attorney General Levi Peter is urging Dominicans to stay away from the illegal drugs trade after a number of people appeared in court on Thursday following police seizure of drugs estimated at more than a million dollars (One EC dollar = US0.37 cents). “Human nature being what it is, greed is blinding many of us to…
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China provides 18 million for projects in Dominica
ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC – China is providing more than EC$18 million (One EC dollar = US$0.37 cents) to Dominica for a number of community-based projects and the construction of a new hospital in the capital. “This assistance is being granted to us by China at a very difficult time for all of us in the world including China, but because…
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Talk show host tipped to be new political leader of main opposition party
ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC – Radio talk show host, Lennox Linton, is being tipped to lead the main opposition United Workers Party (UWP) as it prepares for the next general elections constitutionally due by March 2015. Linton has already been endorsed as the replacement for former prime minister and party leader, Edison James, who Monday confirmed that he would not be…
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Southern village hardest hit by storm’s passage
ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC — Tropical Storm Chantal left Dominica with a trail of destruction in the southern part of this Windward island on Tuesday before churning out into the Caribbean Sea and setting its sights on Haiti and the Dominican Republic. By 5.00 pm (2100 GMT), a tropical storm warning was discontinued after a day of strong gusts left some…
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Dominica mopping up after passage of Tropical Storm Chantal
ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC – Electricity was slowing being restored to several parts of Dominica on Wednesday as authorities began the task of counting the cost of the damage caused by Tropical Storm Chantal 24 hours earlier. Public Works and Infrastructural Development Minister Rayburn Blackmore, speaking on the state-owned DBS radio Wednesday, said the authorities will be assessing the damage “and…
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Dominica’s national debt in excess of EC$700 million
ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC – Dominica’s national debt is in excess of EC$700 million (One Ec dollar = US$0.37 cents), the island’s director of audit, Clarence Christian has said. Speaking on the state-owned DBS radio, Christian said the total central government debt was EC$702.8 million with external debt accounting for EC$520.9 million. He said the value of unpaid cheques, which people…
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Caribbean becoming hotbed for film production
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic — Halfway through Godfather II, a tense scene unfolds in which Michael Corleone watches from the back seat of a taxi as a rebel blows himself up on a street in pre-revolutionary Cuba. By the time the scene was shot in the early 70s, Fidel Castro had already taken over the island; filming in Havana was…
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