Offshore Financial Centres (OFCs), as low-tax, lightly regulated jurisdictions, specialise in providing the corporate and commercial infrastructure for the formation of offshore companies and for the investment of offshore funds.
Dominican Republic – The Facts
- Full name: Dominican Republic
- Population: 9.8 million (UN, 2007)
- Capital: Santo Domingo
- Area: 48,072 sq km (18,696 sq miles)
- Major language: Spanish
- Major religion: Christianity
- Life expectancy: 69 years (men), 75 years (women) (UN)
- Monetary unit: 1 Dominican peso = 100 centavos
- Main exports: Ferronickel, sugar, gold, silver, coffee, cocoa, tobacco, meats
- GNI per capita: US$2,460 (World Bank, 2007)
- Internet domain: .do
- International dialling code: +1809
- President: Leonel Fernandez
- The press
- El Caribe-daily
- Hoy-daily
- Listin Diario-daily
- El Nacional-evening and Sunday
- Diario Libre-daily
- Television
- Corporacion Estatal de Radio y Television (CERTV) (Canal 4)-government-owned
- Color Vision (Canal 9)
- Telemicro (Canal 5)
- Telesistema (Canal 11)
- Teleantillas (Canal 2)
- Antena Latina (Canal 7)- state-owned
- Cadena de Noticias (CDN)-news-based
- Radio
- Cadena de Noticias (CDN) Radio-news station
- Corporacion Estatal de Radio y Television (CERTV)-government-owned
- Rumba FM- one of Santo Domingo's many merengue, salsa music stations
- Internet
- DR1 - online news, English-language
