Sources: Centro de Informacion Gubernamental (Santo Domingo) and Dominican Republic bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Dominican Republic's lower house of parliament (Cámara de Diputados) has approved by a vote of 96 to 1, a bill recently-passed by the Senate, and which removes the January 6 and 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]