Sources: Portal del Senado de la República Dominicana (Santo Domingo) and Dominican Republic bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Dominican Republic's lower house of parliament (Cámara de Diputados) has let lapse (expire) last spring's bill to remove the January 6 and January 26 annual non-working public holidays from the scope of the law 139-97 which regulates non-working public holidays in the Dominican Republic. [full story]