New York: The Dominican consulate, the consul general, Eligio Jáquez and William Rodríguez, president of WR Management Group, member and three-time president of the New York Supermarket Association (NSA), organized a great event between the Vice President of the Dominican Republic, Raquel Peña Rodríguez and prominent Dominican-American business people from the sectors of Health, Transportation, Restaurants, Supermarkets and the newspaper El Faro Latino, held at the Loews Regency Hotel in this city on the morning of Saturday, November 11.
The breakfast was an auspicious occasion for the congressman of Dominican origin, Adriano Espaillat, to deliver a recognition on behalf of the United States House of Representatives to the Dominican vice president, Raquel Peña Rodríguez. Likewise, in a separate event and the same place, the senior police officers of Dominican origin were recognized by the vice president, sir. José Gomérez, Commissioner of Newburgh, NY, and Mrs. Wendy García, Equity Commissioner.
Miguel A. Cohn, Counselor of Commercial and Investment Affairs of the Dominican Consulate in New York, whom Elías Corporán assisted, served as moderator and introduced Consul Eligio Jáquez, who gave the welcome words.
The presence of the businessman and politician Cirilo Moronta and the businessmen William Rodríguez, Rosa Rodríguez, Jimmy Rodríguez, Augusto Taveras, Samuel Collado, Frank Zapata, Pedro Goico, Jorge Guillén Rafael Núñez, José Luis Corona, Luis Corona, Benny Lorenzo, Anthony Espinal, Leo Espinal, Bernice Gómez, Nelson Eusebio, John Estévez, Miguel García Rudy Fuerte, Esteban Cabrera, among others.
“Hello, everyone. Let’s make this breakfast useful. Welcome, nothing more. Today, we are honored to share with a distinguished guest, our vice president, Raquel Peña Rodríguez. There were 25,600 fans in the stadium last night. In the 90-year history of baseball, we have never seen so many fans. Last night in New York, the record was broken, and for this Saturday, there are already 5,000 more tickets sold than last night,” commented Eligio Jáquez.
He explained that he did not have a close relationship with the vice president when President Luis Abinader chose her to be his running mate in the 2020 elections, where they were elected by the sovereign vote of the Dominican people, and that in the development of his role, he has It was more than proven that President Luis Abinader was not wrong.
Finally, he highlighted the importance of the Vice President of the Republic, Raquel Peña Rodríguez, being able to listen to the concerns of various sectors of the Creole business community in the United States and taking multiple proposals and suggestions from potential investors in the country.
Vice President promises NY business people to work with their proposals and concerns.
“I want to thank our consul, Eligio Jáquez, and I also want to thank, of course, Adriano Rodríguez, an ally of ours, of our president, Luis Abinader. Anyway, not to mention each of you. I want to share with this important audience the projects our government has in which the Dominican diaspora is included, such as Housing. I know many of you are investing in real estate projects in our country. Our government recognizes and values all the work that you have been doing from here. Yesterday, we had the opportunity to participate in the Dominican beat. I was proud to see the match between the Águilas Cibaeñas and the Tigres del Licey face each other here in New York City. Still, I said that regardless of whether everyone knows it, I will win,” he joked, referring to the Águilas Cibaeñas.
“Being here with all of you is a sign of that commitment. Abinader wants to continue uniting this great public-private alliance to continue advancing in our country and to be able to leave a more appropriate country. But, above all, to improve the quality of life of the most vulnerable. You are critical to us, President Abinader, and we know that we must advance more, but for that, we have to work more united because you have done a lot. Still, if we sit down and plan together, things will turn out much better,” considered the Dominican vice president, Raquel Peña Rodríguez.
Espaillat takes action against airlines for high ticket prices to the DR.
“Families are forced to pay large sums of money to buy their airline tickets; a couple with two children often has to pay up to $8,000 for the flight cost. However, I will share these numbers: During the pandemic, the federal government gave JetBlue $2.2 billion. American Airlines received 13.3 billion and Delta 11.9 to survive during the pandemic and protect their employees. However, they choose to hit the users’ pockets today with that subsidy given to the lines.” Espaillat said.
“So we need open skies, which is a proposal from President Luis Abinader so that a competitive dynamic can be created from the Dominican Republic and the price of its flights can go down,” the legislator continued.
“But it is also essential that the Dominican Government considers reducing taxes on flights because they are the highest taxes in Latin America and the Caribbean. “It represents a third of the cost of the flight, which does not make it competitive with other regions such as Cancun, Jamaica, etc., so that our constituents can travel more often, and the country can benefit even more from the dynamics of tourism, “he added.
He said that two years ago, during a visit by the Dominican president to New York, he made these proposals to him and would keep them on the table.
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