Medina returns to Hondo Valle with forestry plan
Hatuey de Camps passes away
Customs okays bulk food imports
UNAPEC opens career in international relations
Santo Domingo East clinics allowed to reopen
Highly profitable pension plan companies
Guadalupe Valdez: ambassador for Zero Hunger
Five Venezuelan thieves arrested
More rains on Monday, 29 August
DR synchronized swimming to Pan Am championship
Seven countries in bowling tournament
2017 World Baseball Classic in March
Braulio Garcia at the Barcelo Santo Domingo
Medina returns to Hondo Valle with forestry plan
President Danilo Medina visited the southwestern border province of El?as Pi?a over the weekend and expressed alarm at the large-scale deforestation that has been spreading from tree-less Haiti. During his visit, he announced a project in Hondo Valle with an injection of funds for reforestation in the area and new job creation.
?As of now, anyone who deforests is going to jail,? he said, as quoted in the Presidency press release on the Sunday, 28 August 2016 visit to the border area. He stressed that there would be consequences for illegal tree cutting.
The President?s visit to Hondo Valle follows on from his previous visit on 3 July when he flew over the area and became aware of the significant deforestation.
A task force with Minister of Agriculture Angel Estevez, Dominican Agrarian Institute director Emilio Toribio, Banco Agr?cola director Carlos Segura Foster, senator Adriano Sanchez Roa, the provincial governor, and members of the Cooperativa Agropecuaria Amor por la Vida and the Hondo Valle irrigation association was created to prepare a reforestation plan that includes planting timber forestry, coffee and avocados. ?If we don?t stop this now, in five, six or ten years, everyone will have to leave,? said Medina after seeing the deforestation. ?It is sad how the mountains have been destroyed. We have to change this. We need to provide the necessary support.?
As part of the project, the President returned to Hondo Valle to explain plans for 90,000 tareas to be planted at a cost of more than RD$700 million.
Hondo Valle has a cool microclimate similar to Constanza and Jarabacoa.
https://presidencia.gob.do/noticias...ra-el-que-se-****-a-deforestar-va-preso-video
Hatuey de Camps passes away
President Danilo Medina called a national day of morning following the death of former deputy Hatuey de Camps on Friday, 26 August 2016 at the age of 69. He had been suffering from colon cancer for 10 years. Coincidentally, his youngest brother Luis had a heart attack and passed away the following day.
De Camps was minister of the Presidency during the President Salvador Jorge Blanco government from 1982-1986.
He was elected deputy on the PRD ticket to the Chamber of Deputies of which he was the president from 1979 to 1982.
De Camps ran for President on the Partido Revolucionario Social Dem?crata (PRSD) ticket in the May 2016 general elections. He had founded the PRSD after being expelled from the PRD by former President Hipolito Mejia after he opposed Mejia?s decision to change the Constitution so the later could run for re-election in 2004.
De Camps was regarded as a leading opponent of presidential re-election. In keeping with his principle of rejecting consecutive re-election, De Camps ran for President in the 2016 general election of 15 May 2016 and received 8,264 votes or 0.18% of the total vote.
During the campaign, he criticized the opposition for failing to unite against President Danilo Medina?s re-election ambitions. It was the vote of the opposition party, the PRD that allowed the ruling PLD to change the 2010 Constitution so that Medina could run for President again.
His biography published in Wikipedia mentions that his first marriage was to actress and singer Cecilia Garcia, with whom he had two sons: Hatuey and Luis Miguel de Camps Garc?a. They divorced and he then married TV host Milagros German with whom he had three children: Milagros Marina, ?lvaro Hatuey and Andreas Salom? de Camps Germ?n.
His third marriage was to Dominique Bl?hdorn Le Marrec, daughter of the founder of Gulf & Western, the developer of Casa de Campo and Altos de Chavon in the Dominican Republic. They had four children, including triplets.
De Camps was buried in the Puerta del Cielo cemetery on Sunday 28 August 2016.
http://www.elcaribe.com.do/2016/08/26/fallece-los-69-anos-hatuey-camps
http://www.listindiario.com/la-repu...ores-de-la-oposicion-reivindicaron-a-balaguer
Customs okays bulk food imports
The Customs Agency (DGA) has announced that the shipment of large boxes and barrels containing food in quantities for individual use will continue to be allowed. These barrels are shipped from the United States by so-called ?mudancera? companies.
A DGA communiqu? says that the shipments would still be allowed to enter the country tax-free ?for humanitarian reasons.? Nevertheless, the DGA announced new measures to reduce the misuse of the barrels for transporting large quantities of items, firearms, munitions, cash, cash, and other articles that violate Dominican laws.
http://www.listindiario.com/la-repu...as-de-alimentos-procedentes-de-estados-unidos
http://www.diariolibre.com/economia...jas-de-alimentos-no-seran-afectados-XH4797671
UNAPEC opens career in international relations
Universidad APEC (Unapec) has announced a new masters degree in International Relations starting 2017.
The study program is being devised to improve the skills of diplomats, consuls, government officials and officials at multinational organizations, among others.
Ambassador Manuel Morales Lama is the coordinator of the new course.
http://hoy.com.do/unapec-presenta-maestria-fortalecera-capacidades-en-relaciones-internacionales/
Santo Domingo East clinics allowed to reopen
The three clinics that had been shut down on Wednesday, 24 August 2016 by Santo Domingo prosecutors and the Ministry of Public Health in Santo Domingo East as part of an investigation into possible organ transplant have been authorized to reopen. The Centro M?dico Integral I, Centro M?dico Integral II and Centro Oncol?gico Integral or Cl?nica del Dolor (Oncosalud) can now return to providing their normal services.
The Public Ministry reported that the investigations carried out by Santo Domingo province prosecutors had concluded.
http://www.diariolibre.com/noticias...brir-clinicas-en-santo-domingo-este-LM4781904
Highly profitable pension plan companies
Pension plan management companies have an annual average yield of 38.5%, but retirees will be lucky to see 10.7% on their savings, reports Diario Libre.
The law authorizes the pension management companies (AFP) to charge a 0.5% commission on covered wages, and a 25% commission on the margin between the interest on the certificates of deposits of banking and the yield of the bonds negotiated on the secondary securities market. The pension funds are invested in these funds. A bill aimed at reducing the commission has failed to pass in Congress. More than 1.6 million employees are included in the pension plans.
The companies by yield are:
Scotia Crecer (55.7% company, 10.8% to employees), Popular (45.3% company, 10.6% to employees), Reservas (34.4% company, 10.8% to employees), Siembra (27.1% company, 10.7% employees), Romana (12.7% company, 10.5% employees).
http://www.diariolibre.com/economia...s-mas-que-los-afiliados-del-sistema-FE4798272
Guadalupe Valdez: ambassador for Zero Hunger
Former deputy Guadalupe Valdez has been selected as the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) special ambassador for Latin America and the Caribbean for the Zero Hunger Challenge. The program seeks to reform food systems as a way of transforming the world.
She will be initiated in a special ceremony attended by FAO representative Carmelo Gallardo, the Resident Coordinator of the United Nations system in the country Lorenzo Jimenez de Luis and the Dominican ambassador to the FAO in Rome, Mario Arvelo.
An initiative launched by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, the United Nations FAO Zero Hunger program has been underway for almost four years. Slow Food movement founder Carlo Petrini is the ambassador for Europe.
http://blog.zerohungerchallenge.org
Five Venezuelan thieves arrested
The Police reported the arrest of five Venezuelans accused of armed robbery on Sunday, 28 August 2016. Police spokesman Nelson Rosario said the men had been arrested while they were committing an armed robbery. He said the unnamed Venezuelans were staying at a hotel in Santo Domingo East, where eight stolen watches, including a Rolex, credit cards, cell phones and two guns were found. One of the guns had been reported stolen.
El Dia reports that in September 2012, four Venezuelans had been arrested and processed by the judiciary for mugging people as they withdrew cash from ATMs.
http://eldia.com.do/banda-de-venezolanos-robaba-a-mano-armada-en-republica-dominicana/
More rains on Monday, 29 August
The meteorological office (Onamet) is forecasting a rainy Monday, 29 August 2016 due to a widespread trough that is moving from the east. Rains and thunderstorms are forecast.
Yellow alerts have been announced for National District and Santo Domingo province, as well as for the provinces of Azua, Peravia (Bani), San Cristobal, Sanchez Ramirez (Cotui), Monte Plata, Maria Trinidad Sanchez, Dajabon, Montecristi, Valverde, Espaillat (Moca), Santiago, Duarte (San Francisco de Macoris), La Romana, La Altagracia and San Pedro de Macoris.
DR synchronized swimming to Pan Am championship
The Dominican Republic Synchronized Swimming Junior National Team will compete at the UANA Pan American Synchronized Swimming Championships to be held in San Juan, Puerto Rico from 1-4 September 2016.
The UANA Pan American Synchronized Swimming Championships is an annual event organized by the Union Americana de Natacion (UANA). This year are around 250 swimmers from 14 countries are competing, including the United States, Canada, Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, Costa Rica and Puerto Rico.
The teams are in 16-18 category: Nicole Torres (captain) and Kristyn Santos, 13-15 category: Selinee Aquino (captain), Bianny Matos, Wilma Rondon, Caterina Vargas, Camila Vargas and Paola Pineda, under-12 category: Alejandra Metz (captain), Maria Fernanda Tejeda, Bivi Ventura, Amberly Polanco and Stephanie Rodriguez.
The other delegation members are Maribel Solis - judge, Lucia D?Andrade - head coach, Katherine Martinez - assistant coach, Jose Raul Tejeda, team leader, Luvian Corniel - delegate and Ruth Marte, chaperone.
The Dominican Republic Synchronized Swimming Junior National Team has competed in many international competitions in a number of categories and levels since the 1970s, including the Caribbean Championships, the Central American and Caribbean Games, the Pan American Games, Pre-Olympic, US and German Open, and the Olympics Games in 1984 Los Angeles.
Their most recent achievements include gold in figures, and silver and bronze team in CCCAN 2015. The team also reached the finals in solo and duet in the Pan American Championships 2013 and 2014 and bronze in solo and duet, Mayaguez 2010.
https://swimswam.com/dominican-republic-synchro-junior-national-team-presentation/
Seven countries in bowling tournament
More than 100 players from seven countries are competing in the 14th International Bowling Tournament at the Sebelen Bowling Center on Av. Abraham Lincoln in Santo Domingo. Players are from the US, Puerto Rico, Curacao, Venezuela, Colombia, Panama and the Dominican Republic are taking part in the event from 28 August to 3 September 2016.
http://www.netclick.com.do/proyectos/ti2016/default.aspx
2017 World Baseball Classic in March
Remember the energy set by Dominican team member Robinson Cano who made history at the time when he claimed that ?platano power? led the team to the win against Puerto Rico in the Caribbean Series final of the 2013 World Baseball Classic.
It is announced that the 2017 World Baseball Classic semis and finals will take place at Estadio Charros de Jalisco in Mexico, Petco Park and Dodgers Stadium. Preliminaries are already taking place in Australia, Mexico, Panama and the United States for the tournament qualifications of 16 countries that began 11 February and will continue through 25 September 2016.
First-round games will take place at Marlins Park in Miami and Estadio Charros de Jalisco in Guadalajara, a first-time host, from 9-13 March 2017. The Padres' Petco Park in San Diego, California will host second-round games from 14-19 March.
The Dominican Republic will play its first games in the first round in Miami, Florida at the Marlins Park from 7 March 2017. The Dominican Republic will play in Pool C -- which also includes the United States, Canada and Colombia. Playing in Pool A in Tokyo, Japan are Australia, China, Cuba and Japan. In Pool B: Taiwan, Korea, Netherlands, and yet to qualify team. In Pool D: Italy, Mexico, Puerto Rico and Venezuela.
The Petco Park games, from 14 March through 18 March, will include the four teams that qualify in the first round from this eight-team bracket: the United States, Mexico, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Venezuela, Canada, Colombia and Italy.
The semifinal games are set for 20 March at Dodger Stadium. The championship game is scheduled there for 22 March.
The WBC's first- and second-round format will be round-robin pool play, with each team playing the others in their pool once. The top two teams in each of the four first-round pools will advance to the second round.
In addition to the North American sites, the Gocheok Sky Dome in Seoul, South Korea, and the Tokyo Dome in Japan have already been announced as host stadiums for WBC pool play and second-round games.
http://www.worldbaseballclassic.com
Braulio Garcia at the Barcelo Santo Domingo
Spanish ballad singer Braulio Garcia is booked for a performance (Amargue Total) at the Barcelo Santo Domingo (Lina) on Saturday, 1 October 2016. He will be accompanied by Dominican ballad singer Yohanna Almanzar. The show is set for 9pm. Tickets are RD$3,000 super VIP, RD$2,500 VIP and RD$2,000 general admission.
For more on ongoing and upcoming events:
http://www.dr1.com/calendar
Archived News stories:
http://dr1.com/forums/forumdisplay.p...-Headline-News
Archived Travel News stories:
http://dr1.com/forums/forumdisplay.p...p-Tourism-News
Hatuey de Camps passes away
Customs okays bulk food imports
UNAPEC opens career in international relations
Santo Domingo East clinics allowed to reopen
Highly profitable pension plan companies
Guadalupe Valdez: ambassador for Zero Hunger
Five Venezuelan thieves arrested
More rains on Monday, 29 August
DR synchronized swimming to Pan Am championship
Seven countries in bowling tournament
2017 World Baseball Classic in March
Braulio Garcia at the Barcelo Santo Domingo
Medina returns to Hondo Valle with forestry plan
President Danilo Medina visited the southwestern border province of El?as Pi?a over the weekend and expressed alarm at the large-scale deforestation that has been spreading from tree-less Haiti. During his visit, he announced a project in Hondo Valle with an injection of funds for reforestation in the area and new job creation.
?As of now, anyone who deforests is going to jail,? he said, as quoted in the Presidency press release on the Sunday, 28 August 2016 visit to the border area. He stressed that there would be consequences for illegal tree cutting.
The President?s visit to Hondo Valle follows on from his previous visit on 3 July when he flew over the area and became aware of the significant deforestation.
A task force with Minister of Agriculture Angel Estevez, Dominican Agrarian Institute director Emilio Toribio, Banco Agr?cola director Carlos Segura Foster, senator Adriano Sanchez Roa, the provincial governor, and members of the Cooperativa Agropecuaria Amor por la Vida and the Hondo Valle irrigation association was created to prepare a reforestation plan that includes planting timber forestry, coffee and avocados. ?If we don?t stop this now, in five, six or ten years, everyone will have to leave,? said Medina after seeing the deforestation. ?It is sad how the mountains have been destroyed. We have to change this. We need to provide the necessary support.?
As part of the project, the President returned to Hondo Valle to explain plans for 90,000 tareas to be planted at a cost of more than RD$700 million.
Hondo Valle has a cool microclimate similar to Constanza and Jarabacoa.
https://presidencia.gob.do/noticias...ra-el-que-se-****-a-deforestar-va-preso-video
Hatuey de Camps passes away
President Danilo Medina called a national day of morning following the death of former deputy Hatuey de Camps on Friday, 26 August 2016 at the age of 69. He had been suffering from colon cancer for 10 years. Coincidentally, his youngest brother Luis had a heart attack and passed away the following day.
De Camps was minister of the Presidency during the President Salvador Jorge Blanco government from 1982-1986.
He was elected deputy on the PRD ticket to the Chamber of Deputies of which he was the president from 1979 to 1982.
De Camps ran for President on the Partido Revolucionario Social Dem?crata (PRSD) ticket in the May 2016 general elections. He had founded the PRSD after being expelled from the PRD by former President Hipolito Mejia after he opposed Mejia?s decision to change the Constitution so the later could run for re-election in 2004.
De Camps was regarded as a leading opponent of presidential re-election. In keeping with his principle of rejecting consecutive re-election, De Camps ran for President in the 2016 general election of 15 May 2016 and received 8,264 votes or 0.18% of the total vote.
During the campaign, he criticized the opposition for failing to unite against President Danilo Medina?s re-election ambitions. It was the vote of the opposition party, the PRD that allowed the ruling PLD to change the 2010 Constitution so that Medina could run for President again.
His biography published in Wikipedia mentions that his first marriage was to actress and singer Cecilia Garcia, with whom he had two sons: Hatuey and Luis Miguel de Camps Garc?a. They divorced and he then married TV host Milagros German with whom he had three children: Milagros Marina, ?lvaro Hatuey and Andreas Salom? de Camps Germ?n.
His third marriage was to Dominique Bl?hdorn Le Marrec, daughter of the founder of Gulf & Western, the developer of Casa de Campo and Altos de Chavon in the Dominican Republic. They had four children, including triplets.
De Camps was buried in the Puerta del Cielo cemetery on Sunday 28 August 2016.
http://www.elcaribe.com.do/2016/08/26/fallece-los-69-anos-hatuey-camps
http://www.listindiario.com/la-repu...ores-de-la-oposicion-reivindicaron-a-balaguer
Customs okays bulk food imports
The Customs Agency (DGA) has announced that the shipment of large boxes and barrels containing food in quantities for individual use will continue to be allowed. These barrels are shipped from the United States by so-called ?mudancera? companies.
A DGA communiqu? says that the shipments would still be allowed to enter the country tax-free ?for humanitarian reasons.? Nevertheless, the DGA announced new measures to reduce the misuse of the barrels for transporting large quantities of items, firearms, munitions, cash, cash, and other articles that violate Dominican laws.
http://www.listindiario.com/la-repu...as-de-alimentos-procedentes-de-estados-unidos
http://www.diariolibre.com/economia...jas-de-alimentos-no-seran-afectados-XH4797671
UNAPEC opens career in international relations
Universidad APEC (Unapec) has announced a new masters degree in International Relations starting 2017.
The study program is being devised to improve the skills of diplomats, consuls, government officials and officials at multinational organizations, among others.
Ambassador Manuel Morales Lama is the coordinator of the new course.
http://hoy.com.do/unapec-presenta-maestria-fortalecera-capacidades-en-relaciones-internacionales/
Santo Domingo East clinics allowed to reopen
The three clinics that had been shut down on Wednesday, 24 August 2016 by Santo Domingo prosecutors and the Ministry of Public Health in Santo Domingo East as part of an investigation into possible organ transplant have been authorized to reopen. The Centro M?dico Integral I, Centro M?dico Integral II and Centro Oncol?gico Integral or Cl?nica del Dolor (Oncosalud) can now return to providing their normal services.
The Public Ministry reported that the investigations carried out by Santo Domingo province prosecutors had concluded.
http://www.diariolibre.com/noticias...brir-clinicas-en-santo-domingo-este-LM4781904
Highly profitable pension plan companies
Pension plan management companies have an annual average yield of 38.5%, but retirees will be lucky to see 10.7% on their savings, reports Diario Libre.
The law authorizes the pension management companies (AFP) to charge a 0.5% commission on covered wages, and a 25% commission on the margin between the interest on the certificates of deposits of banking and the yield of the bonds negotiated on the secondary securities market. The pension funds are invested in these funds. A bill aimed at reducing the commission has failed to pass in Congress. More than 1.6 million employees are included in the pension plans.
The companies by yield are:
Scotia Crecer (55.7% company, 10.8% to employees), Popular (45.3% company, 10.6% to employees), Reservas (34.4% company, 10.8% to employees), Siembra (27.1% company, 10.7% employees), Romana (12.7% company, 10.5% employees).
http://www.diariolibre.com/economia...s-mas-que-los-afiliados-del-sistema-FE4798272
Guadalupe Valdez: ambassador for Zero Hunger
Former deputy Guadalupe Valdez has been selected as the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) special ambassador for Latin America and the Caribbean for the Zero Hunger Challenge. The program seeks to reform food systems as a way of transforming the world.
She will be initiated in a special ceremony attended by FAO representative Carmelo Gallardo, the Resident Coordinator of the United Nations system in the country Lorenzo Jimenez de Luis and the Dominican ambassador to the FAO in Rome, Mario Arvelo.
An initiative launched by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, the United Nations FAO Zero Hunger program has been underway for almost four years. Slow Food movement founder Carlo Petrini is the ambassador for Europe.
http://blog.zerohungerchallenge.org
Five Venezuelan thieves arrested
The Police reported the arrest of five Venezuelans accused of armed robbery on Sunday, 28 August 2016. Police spokesman Nelson Rosario said the men had been arrested while they were committing an armed robbery. He said the unnamed Venezuelans were staying at a hotel in Santo Domingo East, where eight stolen watches, including a Rolex, credit cards, cell phones and two guns were found. One of the guns had been reported stolen.
El Dia reports that in September 2012, four Venezuelans had been arrested and processed by the judiciary for mugging people as they withdrew cash from ATMs.
http://eldia.com.do/banda-de-venezolanos-robaba-a-mano-armada-en-republica-dominicana/
More rains on Monday, 29 August
The meteorological office (Onamet) is forecasting a rainy Monday, 29 August 2016 due to a widespread trough that is moving from the east. Rains and thunderstorms are forecast.
Yellow alerts have been announced for National District and Santo Domingo province, as well as for the provinces of Azua, Peravia (Bani), San Cristobal, Sanchez Ramirez (Cotui), Monte Plata, Maria Trinidad Sanchez, Dajabon, Montecristi, Valverde, Espaillat (Moca), Santiago, Duarte (San Francisco de Macoris), La Romana, La Altagracia and San Pedro de Macoris.
DR synchronized swimming to Pan Am championship
The Dominican Republic Synchronized Swimming Junior National Team will compete at the UANA Pan American Synchronized Swimming Championships to be held in San Juan, Puerto Rico from 1-4 September 2016.
The UANA Pan American Synchronized Swimming Championships is an annual event organized by the Union Americana de Natacion (UANA). This year are around 250 swimmers from 14 countries are competing, including the United States, Canada, Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, Costa Rica and Puerto Rico.
The teams are in 16-18 category: Nicole Torres (captain) and Kristyn Santos, 13-15 category: Selinee Aquino (captain), Bianny Matos, Wilma Rondon, Caterina Vargas, Camila Vargas and Paola Pineda, under-12 category: Alejandra Metz (captain), Maria Fernanda Tejeda, Bivi Ventura, Amberly Polanco and Stephanie Rodriguez.
The other delegation members are Maribel Solis - judge, Lucia D?Andrade - head coach, Katherine Martinez - assistant coach, Jose Raul Tejeda, team leader, Luvian Corniel - delegate and Ruth Marte, chaperone.
The Dominican Republic Synchronized Swimming Junior National Team has competed in many international competitions in a number of categories and levels since the 1970s, including the Caribbean Championships, the Central American and Caribbean Games, the Pan American Games, Pre-Olympic, US and German Open, and the Olympics Games in 1984 Los Angeles.
Their most recent achievements include gold in figures, and silver and bronze team in CCCAN 2015. The team also reached the finals in solo and duet in the Pan American Championships 2013 and 2014 and bronze in solo and duet, Mayaguez 2010.
https://swimswam.com/dominican-republic-synchro-junior-national-team-presentation/
Seven countries in bowling tournament
More than 100 players from seven countries are competing in the 14th International Bowling Tournament at the Sebelen Bowling Center on Av. Abraham Lincoln in Santo Domingo. Players are from the US, Puerto Rico, Curacao, Venezuela, Colombia, Panama and the Dominican Republic are taking part in the event from 28 August to 3 September 2016.
http://www.netclick.com.do/proyectos/ti2016/default.aspx
2017 World Baseball Classic in March
Remember the energy set by Dominican team member Robinson Cano who made history at the time when he claimed that ?platano power? led the team to the win against Puerto Rico in the Caribbean Series final of the 2013 World Baseball Classic.
It is announced that the 2017 World Baseball Classic semis and finals will take place at Estadio Charros de Jalisco in Mexico, Petco Park and Dodgers Stadium. Preliminaries are already taking place in Australia, Mexico, Panama and the United States for the tournament qualifications of 16 countries that began 11 February and will continue through 25 September 2016.
First-round games will take place at Marlins Park in Miami and Estadio Charros de Jalisco in Guadalajara, a first-time host, from 9-13 March 2017. The Padres' Petco Park in San Diego, California will host second-round games from 14-19 March.
The Dominican Republic will play its first games in the first round in Miami, Florida at the Marlins Park from 7 March 2017. The Dominican Republic will play in Pool C -- which also includes the United States, Canada and Colombia. Playing in Pool A in Tokyo, Japan are Australia, China, Cuba and Japan. In Pool B: Taiwan, Korea, Netherlands, and yet to qualify team. In Pool D: Italy, Mexico, Puerto Rico and Venezuela.
The Petco Park games, from 14 March through 18 March, will include the four teams that qualify in the first round from this eight-team bracket: the United States, Mexico, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Venezuela, Canada, Colombia and Italy.
The semifinal games are set for 20 March at Dodger Stadium. The championship game is scheduled there for 22 March.
The WBC's first- and second-round format will be round-robin pool play, with each team playing the others in their pool once. The top two teams in each of the four first-round pools will advance to the second round.
In addition to the North American sites, the Gocheok Sky Dome in Seoul, South Korea, and the Tokyo Dome in Japan have already been announced as host stadiums for WBC pool play and second-round games.
http://www.worldbaseballclassic.com
Braulio Garcia at the Barcelo Santo Domingo
Spanish ballad singer Braulio Garcia is booked for a performance (Amargue Total) at the Barcelo Santo Domingo (Lina) on Saturday, 1 October 2016. He will be accompanied by Dominican ballad singer Yohanna Almanzar. The show is set for 9pm. Tickets are RD$3,000 super VIP, RD$2,500 VIP and RD$2,000 general admission.
For more on ongoing and upcoming events:
http://www.dr1.com/calendar
Archived News stories:
http://dr1.com/forums/forumdisplay.p...-Headline-News
Archived Travel News stories:
http://dr1.com/forums/forumdisplay.p...p-Tourism-News