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This is a list of holidays in Dominican Republic. [1] Public holidays. January 1: New Year's Day, national holiday [2]
Source: [2] 1 January - New Year's Day; 6 January - Epiphany 21 January - Our Lady of High Grace 26 January - Duarte's Birthday 27 February – Independence Day 18 April – Good Friday
Caucedo Port has one container terminal, which is located next to Las Americas International Airport.The terminal was built in 2003 by the private sector. According to a statistical report submitted by Dominican Port Authority (APORDOM) for January to June 2017, Multimodal Caucedo port had 66.3% of TEU (Twenty-foot Equivalent Unit) movement in the island, followed by Rio Haina Port with 27.4% ...
The president of the Dominican Republic announced Thursday that he would close all borders with neighboring Haiti starting Friday in response to the construction of a supposed canal on Haitian ...
How both efforts shake out will be key to improving profit at its largest business, overnight-delivery provider FedEx Express. Analysis-FedEx Express revamp hangs on fate of USPS, pilot talks Skip ...
The Johnson Doctrine, enunciated by U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson after the United States' intervention in the Dominican Republic in 1965, declared that domestic revolution in the Western Hemisphere would no longer be a local matter when the object is the establishment of a "Communist dictatorship". [1]
The Parsley massacre (Spanish: el corte "the cutting"; [5] Creole: kout kouto-a "the stabbing" [6]) (French: Massacre du Persil; Spanish: Masacre del Perejil; Haitian Creole: Masak nan Pèsil) was a mass killing of Haitians living in illegal settlements [7] and occupied land in the Dominican Republic's northwestern frontier and in certain parts of the contiguous Cibao region in October 1937.
The organization in charge of monitoring compliance with said treaty is OPANAL (Organization for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean). Signed in 1967, it was the first treaty of its kind covering a populated area of the world, establishing a Nuclear-weapon-free zone stretching from the Rio Grande to Tierra del ...