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Sunday, July 31, 2011

Punta Cana's modern freight terminal could boost Dominican exports

Optimizing the air and marine transport processes and the handling of freight in airport terminals figure among Dominican Republic’s main challenges in diversifying and increasing its exports to major markets.

Thanks to the advances accomplished in that area, the retention of containers with perishable foodstuff such as the fruits and vegetables fell significantly in the last four years, affirmed National Competitiveness Council (CNC) director Andres Van Der Horst.

Speaking in the seminar Punta International Airport: Connecting the world for Import and Export” held in the Punta Cana Hotel, Van Der Horst specified that while in 2007 nearly 90% of Dominican products halted abroad were agricultural, a proportion which fell to little more than 40 percent in 2010.

He said 58% of Dominican products were held back as the result of deficiencies in labeling, and 38% from adulterations or mishandling mainly in the agricultural area.

The official said per classification, vegetables lead with 34% of returns, followed by drugs (26%), food and beverages (9%) and industrial items (8%). “A factor of concern is that where they’re most retained (local products) is precisely in Florida, a U.S. state that is Dominican Republic’s second biggest trade partner in the world.”

Van Der Horst cited the case of cassava from Moca a product “with which we had almost the entire Latino and US East Coast market, but which was lost because of problems of phytosanitary handling; we lost that market to Costa Rica and we’ve yet to recover it.”

Among the steps needed to advance in that area, the head of the CNC cited, “optimizing the use of air transport, the transport of perishables in refrigerated trucks, discard the use of air containers or palettes as much as possible, and to group themselves to negotiate spaces at lower and fixed prices.”

He added that air cargo already represents 35% of the world’s merchandise transport, and hailed the facilities provided by Punta Cana International Airport’s (AIPC) modern freight terminal.


Source: Dominican Today

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Saturday, July 30, 2011

Taiwan, Dominican Republic discussing anti-human trafficking accord

The Dominican Republic (D.R.) is in discussions with Taiwan to sign a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on the prevention of human trafficking, a visiting government official from the D.R. said Wednesday.

Alejandra Victoria Liriano de la Cruz, the deputy minister of foreign affairs from the D.R., arrived in Taiwan on an exchange program to learn about Taiwan's immigration policies.

She indicated interest in the MOU during a meeting with Hsieh Li-Kung, the director-general of the National Immigration Agency (NIA).

Liriano praised Taiwan's achievement in fighting against human trafficking and expressed her desire to recruit Taiwan to help the D.R. with its own trafficking problems.

Hsieh said he hopes Liriano will come up with more details regarding the MOU after returning home.

According to NIA, the Caribbean nation, with a population of 9.63 million people, has been troubled by an influx of illegal workers and human trafficking from its neighboring country, Haiti.

Liriano said the D.R. is seeking international advice to solve the problem with Haiti and it wants to improve cooperation with government agencies and non-governmental organizations to combat human trafficking.


Source: Focus Taiwan

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Friday, July 29, 2011

Dominican Government rebukes Arab network’s “stateless” claim

Central Electoral Board (JCE) president Roberto Rosario Tuesday affirmed that there are no stateless people in the country thus far, as the activist Sonia Pierre affirmed in an Aljazeera report criticizing the treatment of Haitians in Dominican Republic.

He also questioned the interest shown by some countries in trying to get Dominican Republic to assume irregular immigration of foreigners as its own, when it’s not their practice.

The official denied that the JCE has been empowered of thousands of cases of people whose right to citizenship was allegedly refused and noted that to date “Mrs. Pierre” has only submitted 120 files, which he affirms were already processed.

He said the results of an investigation will be disclosed before the end of this month and affirmed that it was communicated to Pierre on July 4 in the United States Embassy, during the celebration of the that nation’s independence. He said the information was provided in the presence of people linked to the defense of human rights of that nation.

Rosario said the Dominican Constitution stipulates who’s qualified for Dominican citizenship, or by birth or through the legal procedures to become Dominican via naturalization. “For reasons of blood Dominican residents outside the territory transmit citizenship rights and for reasons of soil the children of foreigners who reside legally are Dominican, according to the parameters established in the Magna Charta promulgated January 26, 2010”.


Source: Dominican Today

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Thursday, July 28, 2011

Banana exports are paralyzed

Banana exports from the Dominican Republic are stalled because President Leonel Fernandez has privatized the Manzanillo port to an Atlantic Port Corporation, which prevents banana producers of using the dock to export their production.

The Associations of Montecristeños Banana Producers and Exporters (Asexbam) and the National Banana Growers reported that banana growers are barred from export.

They affirm that the port has been militarized by the so called Atlantic Port Corporation, so that is why exporters cannot enter the dock.

The ASEXBAM opposes the privatization of the port, because banana producers were not considered when given the concession, declared Ramon Faña, president of the union.

"If we are the ones who generated jobs and have worked for over 50 years in the production of bananas and plantains, why we are not taken into account and have to give away the port to a group of entrepreneurs who have the province of Santiago and now want to steal the only thing that belongs to the Linea Noreste?", questioned Faña.

The arrangement of Leonel affects banana producers and bananas in a region which only depends on this production.

This is another element that threatens the success of Danilo Medina and the Dominican Liberation Party (PLD) in the next election.

Source: Fresh Plaza

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Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Villanueva: Budget cut could hurt Dominican Republic’s tourism

The executive vice president of the hoteliers and tourism businesses grouped in ASONAHORES warned that that the global economic crisis could seriously affect that sector if the promotion programs abroad aren’t strictly applied.

Arturo Villanueva said as the current crisis threatens to curtail the tourist flow worldwide, Dominican Republic must boost its promotion abroad and under any circumstance can it cut the Tourism Ministry’s budget.

He warned that a bill now in Congress which cuts 12% of Tourism’s budget would be very detrimental for promotion abroad, in reference to a commitment with the International Monetary Fund to obtain funds.

“We understand the government’s situation and the agreement with the IMF, but it concerns us deeply that the sector which can spur growth, development and motorize the economies of other sectors, would have its funds reduced, which are needed for promotion abroad,” Villanueva said. The Tourism Ministry’s Budget allocation for 2011 is around RD$1.0 billion.

As to the tourist flow this summer, Villanueva said it has fallen sharply in the Puerto Plata (North) region and has increased in the East zone, with 323 flights slated to arrive at Punta Cana Airport next week.


Source: Dominican Today

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Tuesday, July 26, 2011

WikiLeak rocks Dominican Republic’s high court

A WikiLeaks cable reveals that Supreme Court (SJC) president Jorge Subero revealed to U.S. ambassadors Hans Hertell and Roland Bullen, that SJC vice president Rafael Luciano Pichardo was apparently involved in corruption.

Newspaper Caribe said the local TV news station SIN provided the cable, which affirms that Subero told the diplomats that Pichardo was trying to alter the ruling in the US$2.5 billion Baninter bank fraud case and that Pichardo had received US$40,000.

Excerpts of the leaked cable Caribe acquired from SIN:

78252 ONFIDENTIAL SANTO DOMINGO 002941 Date of cable: September 13, 2006 (Translation from Spanish)

Summary. In a wide spectrum call recently done by ambassadors Hertell and Bullen (DCM) related to Jorge Subero Isa, president of the Supreme Court of Law), the latter confidentially described the plans for a future strengthening of the judicial sector, detailed the fight against judicial corruption and stressed some of the most urgent topics on the reform that faces the Dominican Republic at the moment.

After the departure of the personnel pertaining to the Department of State and the USAID which had accompanied the ambassadors, Subero revealed to Hertell and to Bullen that the vice president of the SCJ, Rafael Luciano Pichardo, seems to be deeply involved in the official corruption and is possibly trying to subvert the trial which at present is carried out against the individuals implicated in the fraudulent collapse of the Intercontinental Bank (Baninter), in 2003. However, Subero suggested that the Dominican Government would not take any action against Pichardo. The embassy investigates if the revocation of Pichardo’s visa would be appropriate. End of the summary.

The good news

(U) Subero started the meeting directly attributing the rise in the Dominican economy (rate of growth of 9% of the GDP) to the improvements in the judicial sector carried out by the programs of the USAID.

He suggested that if it weren’t for the support of the Untied States government, the progress in the fight against the judicial corruption in the last nine years would have been little. His final conclusion was that the “moral assistance” provided by the United States is, in fact, more valuable than the monetary assistance, considering it an “incalculable value.”

The bad news

Although the meeting that followed maintained this perception, it revealed Subero’s Achilles heel, he wasn’t willing to directly confront corruption at the high levels of the Government.

The embassy received, without having requested it, illegal recordings that seem to form part of a campaign of disrepute against Pichardo, with the suggestion that others were trying to influence their votes in the Court. A partial transcription was apparently also given to newspaper Digital Clave.

Although Pichardo’s own recorded comments donot contain any signs of non ethical, illegal activity or judicial, the subsequent article of Clave Digital was sufficiently harmful for the embassy to consider prudent to request Subero’s opinion on the topic.

In response Subero noted that Pichardo had admitted to him, as well as to other judges of the SCJ, that he had accepted $40,000 dollars but didn’t mention anybody’s name, and that it hadn’t been in exchange for anything, explicitly or implicitly.

Subero also noted that two of Pichardo’s sons also were involved by accepting larges sums of money and that he knows that Pichardo asked the judge who headed the criminal trial against Baninter “to have certain flexibility” as far as the motions of the defense.

Subero also believes, but cannot prove it, that the defense lawyer for Baninter, who is also advisor to the President, Vinicio “Vincho” Castillo, is trying to orchestrate Subero’s replacement with Pichardo as head of the SCJ, in an attempt to improve the Court’s inclination towards the Baninter defendant in appeal.

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On April 30, 2008 Pichardo’s son Rafael Alberto Luciano Corominas was arrested together with Juan José Martín Gómez, upon returning from Puerto Rico in a small plane, registry HI-831, piloted by Ovalles Tejada, from whom Customs agents seized US$580,000.


Source: Dominican Today

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Monday, July 25, 2011

Punta Cana airport launches official website, inaugurates new runway

Punta Cana International Airport (PUJ), the leading destination for travel in the Dominican Republic, launched its official website (www.puntacanainternationalairport.com), which has been designed to streamline the process of booking travel to the country.

Through the website, travelers will be able to book flights, hotel and car services, as well as track flights and access information on the region such as history, weather and customs details.

Additionally, Punta Cana International Airport is inaugurating a new runway that will increase the lift capacity of the rapidly expanding airport.

Punta Cana is the leading port of entry in the Dominican Republic and one of the fastest growing in the Caribbean. The new runway was built to support the growing demand for direct flights from major international cities.

"Punta Cana is the most highly visited vacation destination in the Caribbean, and we are thrilled to offer travelers the opportunity to find all the information they need to book a trip in one place," said Frank R. Rainieri, President and CEO of Grupo PUNTACANA.

Source: Dominican Today

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Sunday, July 24, 2011

5 Dominicans break record for continuous reading

Five students set a world record Wednesday after reading aloud for 300 straight hours to raise awareness about books in the Dominican Republic. And they kept going.

Guinness World Records recognized the university students for breaking the previous record of 240 hours set in 2009 by a group of women from Miami Dade College.

"This is a very important case because it deals with reading and promotes intellectualism," said Michael Janela, a Guinness official who certified the record.

He called it a tremendous sacrifice.

"There is no time to sleep, nor even to eat," he said. "Sometimes they are reading by themselves at dawn, without support."

In preparation for the bid, participants practiced reading up to three hours a day for two years, said Cristian Rodriguez, a 23-year-old communications student.

The students began reading July 7 at a library just northwest of the capital, taking turns before a microphone every two hours. They chose to read the complete works of historian and former Dominican President Juan Bosch. The project was being transmitted live on the Internet.

The students had planned to stop Wednesday but decided to extend the reading until early Saturday to complete 365 hours of reading, one hour for each day of the year.

Guinness officials will continue to monitor the reading to verify the final time.

"Dominicans stay up late for parties, stay up late for dancing and for drinking in the street, why can't they stay up late to support us?" said Carlos Jose Reyes, a 34-year-old librarian who organized the group in 2008 while brainstorming with a friend, Randolfo Jimenez, about how to entice more people to start reading.

Both Reyes and Jimenez are members of a local writing group and have published several poetry books.

Reyes hopes the new record will inspire young people to read at least one hour a day and encourage business owners to help update the selection of books in libraries across the Dominican Republic.

"A lot of times they only have obsolete, out-of-date books that do not fulfill students' expectations," he said.

Only 39 percent of primary schools in the Caribbean nation have a library, compared with 51 percent of primary schools across Latin America, according to statistics from the United Nations.

"We're going to make reading hip," said Jose Manuel Bueno, a 19-year-old philosophy student.


Source: Associated Press


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Saturday, July 23, 2011

Dominican Republic to pay for Venezuelan oil with uniforms, meat

The Dominican Republic plans to partially pay for fuel under a Venezuelan oil-supply pact with military uniforms and chicken meat.

Venezuelan Ambassador Alfredo Murga told reporters Monday that both governments decided that the Dominican Republic can settle its debts under the Petrocaribe Initiative with textiles and meat.
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Santo Domingo had been paying for the Venezuelan oil with tourism services, black beans, and other crops.

Under Petrocaribe, member countries in the Caribbean have the option of paying partially for Venezuelan fuel with services or goods.

State-owned Reservas bank administrator Vicente Bengoa says the Dominican government's Petrocaribe bill stands at roughly $2 million.


Source: Forbes

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Friday, July 22, 2011

More Dominicans go abroad, but send fewer remittances

Despite that Dominican Republic was one of the countries which sent the highest number of emigrants abroad in the 2008-2010 period, its remittances fell in 5.1 percent from the effects the global economic crisis, according to a report by several organizations.

The report “International Migration in the Americas,” by the Organization of American Estados (OAS), the Cooperation and Economic Development Organization (OECD) and the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (Cepal) found that reduction was lower than the 10.2 percent decline in remittances sent to Latin America and the Caribbean.

The report even notes that in the cases of Mexico and Dominican Republic there was anecdotal evidence of inverse flows from remittances to the United States in 2009, since the emigrants used their savings in their country of origin, on mortgage payments in the United States.

Dominican emigrants to the OECD jumped 28 percent as an annual average in the 2008-2009 period, compared with the 2003-2007 period. On average emigrants increased from 45,460 people to 58,280 annual in that period.

The United States received the most Dominican emigrants as an annual average, with local immigrants increasing from 30,050 to 40,650 in the period, while Spain, where the increase in the number of local immigrants as an annual average went from 12,360 to 14,300 in the period.

Condition

The fall in the remittances received by Dominican Republic was lower than the region as a whole, although Dominican emigrants are concentrated in the United States and Spain, two countries hit especially hard by the 2008 financial crisis.

Exception

Latin America’s exception was Haiti, a country the World Bank estimates received US$1.5 billion in 2010, 15% more than in the two previous years, resulting from the reaction the earthquake in that country.


Source: Dominican Today

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Thursday, July 21, 2011

Dominican Republic declares red alert for rains in southern parts

The Dominican emergency authorities announced Wednesday a red alert for southern parts of the country after heavy rains caused by the 2011 hurricane season killed three people and displaced thousands more in recent days.

The Center for Emergency Operations (COE) said the rains have damaged at least 607 homes and about 2,408 people have been displaced.

The National Meteorological Office warned at least nine powerful storms are expected for this hurricane season.

According to the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale, a tropical storm can be classified as a hurricane of category one when its windspeed reaches at least 119 km per hour or above. And the most powerful Category Five refers to a hurricane whose windspeed surpasses 249 km per hour.


Source: English People Daily Online

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Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Dominican Republic Sets Up To Sell Dollar Bonds -Source

The Dominican Republic hired two investment banks to set up meetings with fixed-income investors in Europe and the U.S. to sell dollar-denominated debt, according to a person familiar with the deal.

The B1 Moody's-rated sovereign plans to start those meeting on July 14 to sell the proposed bonds in a 144A/Reg S deal. It mandated Barclays and J.P. Morgan to arrange the meetings. No offering size was disclosed.

The roadshow starts in Los Angeles on July 14, then San Francisco, London, Boston and New York through the following week.

In mid-June, Standard and Poor's upgraded the Dominican Republic to B+/B from B/B, with a stable outlook, citing a "resilient" economy and improving debt structure. The ratings agency said it expects the nation's real gross domestic product to grow 5.5% this year, with a "feasible" medium-term growth of 4% to 5%.


Source: The Wall Street Journal

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Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Dominican Republic: World exports increase

Dominican exports registered a increase of 16.28% in the world market between January and April of this year in comparison with the same period last year, passing from 2,105 million USD to 2,447 million USD equivalent to 3,432.70 million USD more, according to information from the Center of Exports and Ivetments.

The non traditional exports represent 67.90% with 1,661.91 million USD in the reference period. In non traditional products the exports of the country sold 1,661.91 million USD, equivalent to 186.49 million USD more than in the fourth trimester of the past year, when they exported 1,475.42 million USD.

The agricultural products increased in 6.73% in organic and conventional bananas, avocados, and peppers amongst others.


Source: Fresh Plaza

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Monday, July 18, 2011

NASA eyes Dominican Republic lake’s mysterious growth

Enriquillo Lake has grown around 9,000 hectares from February 26, 2009, to April 15, 2011, a NASA sensor measurement reveals from space, while the Santo Domingo State University’s (UASD) Marine Research Center suggests that two underground currents at the Haiti-Dominican border as the possible cause.

The UASD hypothesis that the subsurface currents from Tierra Nueva and Las Lajas, towns adjacent to Haitian territory, spill their waters into Enriquillo and Azuey lakes, could turn out to be the cause behind the as yet unexplained flooding in both bodies of water.

“That amount of water is still draining towards Enriquillo lake from high territories” in the Dominican Republic, NASA said on its Website, and affirms that the lake’s surroundings “have been flooded even more than the floods brought about by the rain sequel caused by Hurricane Noel and Tropical Storm Olga in 2007.”

NASA’s measurements of Enriquillo’s underflow level were done with Landsat and Modis type sensors, which also provided satellite imagery in the study.

Enriquillo received 400 millimeters of water during those rains, and surpass 700 millimeters in the last two years, without any rain in the zone, which reveals the magnitude of the flooding that affects the Caribbean region’s biggest lake since 2009.


Source: Dominican Today

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Sunday, July 17, 2011

American Airlines to increase its daily flights to Dominican Republic

American Airlines will increase to 25 its daily flights from the United States to the Dominican Republic’s major international airports.

From Miami to Punta Cana International Airport, American Airlines will increase to three its daily flights between both airports. It will also add a second flight from New York to this destination. American Eagle, a subsidiary of AA, will add a third flight to San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Between the airports of La Romana and San Juan (Puerto Rico), the carrier will increase flights from two per week to two per day. There will also be two daily flights at the Santiago International Airport to and from Miami and one to San Juan.

From Las Americas International Airport, American Eagle will offer four daily flights to San Juan and one to Haiti. With all the new flights, AA will offer three thousand seats daily to passengers traveling between the United States and the Dominican Republic.


Source: Dominican Today


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Saturday, July 16, 2011

Dominican President Rejects U.S. Assistance to Fight Crime, Opting for Loans Instead

Dominican President Leonel Fernandez declined on Thursday the type of economic benefits the United States was offering his country to combat organized crime and drug trafficking.

Fernandez claimed rather than aid and assistance his government would rather financial support consisting of granting of credits and loans on favorable terms to enable the country to procure equipment for the fight against crime and drug trafficking.

The Dominican Head of State who attended a Dominican Forum on Safety in Santo Domongo, criticized the American assistance to the Dominican Republic to fight crime, assistance that is estimated at $15 million. Much more "assistance" is granted to other countries including Colombia.

"It is better they (USA) give us nothing in terms of economic aid, said Fernandez proposing the extension of credit that allows the Dominican Republic to buy speedboats and radar to monitor its borders with Haiti in lieu of insufficient donations."

Fernández said that "this fight we can win it, explaining that substantial resources would enable his country to have control land, sea and air total territory Dominican and thereby achieve better results in the fight against drug trafficking."

The Dominican president recalled that in the region, 90% of cases of drug trafficking and organized crime go unpunished. He said he is in a country affected by this disease. A tax problem and weak state is being enjoyed by drug traffickers. "The situation causes," he said, "a lack of trust of the population vis-à-vis institutions charged with responsibility for that combat drug trafficking. He acknowledged that police officers Dominican receiving low wages are influenced and seduced by the narco-traffickers."

"There is a problem that has to do with the salaries of police officers, police officers are poorly paid in our country and because they are poorly paid, they are vulnerable to mafia groups and criminals."

Source: Defend HT

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Friday, July 15, 2011

Dominican Republic To Build 2 Wind Farms

The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has approved two loans totaling $78.3 million to help build two wind farms in the Dominican Republic. Once completed, the renewable energy projects will combined provide 80.6 megawatts to the grid. The wind farms are being developed by private companies, and demonstrate the growing confidence in the Dominican energy sector. The Corporación Dominicana de Empresas Eléctricas Estatales (CDEEE) is one utility that will purchase the electricity produced from both wind farms through seperate 20-year power purchase agreements.

The first loan of $50.7 million was awarded to the Parques Eólicos del Caribe (PECASA) project, located in the southern province of Mote Cristi. The $127 million wind farm is under development by Gamesa, Grupo Delta Intur, Aquiles Mateo, and Miguel Ángel Muñiz. The project will consist of 25 Gamesa G90 turbines with a capacity of 2 megawatts each.

The second loan of $27.6 million was awarded to Grupo Eólico Dominicano, a company controlled by the Spanish group Inveravante. This $68.9 million project, located in Baní, part of the Peravia province, will be comprised of 17 Vestas V90 turbines, with a capacity of 1.8 megawatts each.

To support both projects, 138-kilovolt transmission lines will be constructed to connect the wind farms to the national grid. In addition, access roads will be built along with several new substations and control stations.


Source: Domestic Fuel


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Monday, July 4, 2011

Court will convict Dominican Republic in missing journalist’s case, activist says

The National Human Rights Commission president predicted Monday that the Inter-American Human Rights Court will convict Dominican Republic in the case of the professor and journalist Narciso González (Narcisazo), and railed president Leonel Fernandez’s alleged lack of resolve in the investigation and the prosecution in what he called “a forced disappearance” in 1994.

Manuel Maria Mercedes said the country’s conviction will come from the impossibility by the country’s defense to sustain their theory that Narcisazo committed suicide, alleging that the claim did more even damage to the nation’s image.

The human rights activist, interviewed by Frank Rafael Guzmán on channel 8, said beside the monetary cost to Dominican taxpayers in damages paid to González’s relatives, the Court could also impose sanctions such as a cut in international economic aid.


Source: Dominican Today

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Sunday, July 3, 2011

Dominican Republic to receive U.S. energy

The Dominican Republic and five other Caribbean countries will benefit from technical assistance grants from the United States under the Energy and Climate Partnership of the Americas (ECPA).

According to press reports, the grant to the Dominican Republic will be used to install a demonstration PV solar system in parallel with the utility grid to supply a portion of the nation’s electricity demand.

The other countries to benefit from these grants are Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, Jamaica and St Vincent and the Grenadines. The announcement was made by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton during a recent trip to Jamaica for a meeting with Caricom foreign ministers.

Source: Dominican Today


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Friday, July 1, 2011

Dominican Republic Coffee Has A New Ambassador

In celebration of Juan Luis Guerra's London debut DominicanCoffeeCanada.com has just added Free Shipping to all its sales of Premium dominican coffee. While the Dominican Republic is known for its robust and flavorful coffee much of the world overlooks its quality premium coffee beans.

Anton Suhy, Dominican Coffee aficionado and online retailer of Dominican Coffee notes "I've been jumping up and down for years about Dominican Coffee, trying to get people to take notice of some of the worlds best coffee beans. People ask me about Columbian Coffee and all I can say is Ciao! People really need to wake up and smell the Dominican Coffee. We have the climate, the altitude and the soil to grow some of the best coffee beans in the world." Suhy, who currently resides in Santiago, Dominican Republic sells Premium dominican coffee online via http://dominicancoffeecanada.com.

Suhy continues "In celebration of Juan Luis Guerra's first concert in London, Dominican Coffee Canada is offering Free Shipping on all orders to the United States and Canada. There is no reason it cannot be raining dominican republic coffee in everyone's kitchen in Canada and the United States".

Juan Luis Guerra first found a wide audience in 1989 with the release of "Ojala que Llueva Cafe" - translated as "I hope it rains coffee."

While The Dominican Republic known for its beautiful beaches and butt shaking music has increased exports of coffee in the last few years, much of the coffee grown never leaves the country. Exporting more of the premium coffee continues to be a goal of the Dominican Government. Coffee growing continues to be an important part of the struggling Dominican Economy.

Source: Online PR Media


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