President Medina attends Colombia’s president inaugural
Metro to be inaugurated tomorrow
Gonzalo Castillo: Decision on Medina’s reelection bid left to 2019
Protests in Santiago over lack of aqueduct
Appeal over dismissal of charges delayed
Plane crash under investigation
Dominicans being sought by Interpol
Frenchman murdered in Las Galeras
Police sergeant shoots and kills his wife
Fourteen provinces on bad weather alert
President Medina attends Colombia’s president inaugural
Today, Tuesday 7 August, President Danilo Medina is scheduled to travel to Bogotá, Colombia for the inauguration of President Iván Duque and his Vice President Marta Lucía Ramírez. He will join nine other Latin American heads of state and delegations from 17 countries at the inauguration.
Among the heads of state expected to be present are Mexico, Enrique Peña Nieto; Chile, Sebastián Piñera; Ecuador, Lenín Moreno, and Panama, Juan Carlos Varela. In addition attending will be the Heads of State from Argentina, Mauricio Macri; Bolivia, Evo Morales; Costa Rica, Carlos Alvarado; Guatemala, Jimmy Morales, and Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernández.
https://www.listindiario.com/la-rep...ombia-a-toma-de-posesion-del-nuevo-presidente
Metro to be inaugurated tomorrow
The director for the Office for the Reorganization of Transport (OPRET), Manuel Antonio Saleta García, announced that Line 2B of the Santo Domingo Metro will be inaugurated by President Danilo Medina on Wednesday, 8 August 2018. Peak hour capacity will now be increased with the installation of recently arrived cars.
The new line features elevators for persons with disabilities and a podotactyl floor for the visually impaired. Members of Cesmet (the Metro Security Corps) will be available to assist passengers with disabilities.
The new line will serve an estimated 850,000 people. It has capacity to carry 150,000 passengers a day covering 3.6 kilometers in 7 to 8 minutes. In addition the new line has created 120 new jobs. It provides a fast transit solution for those living in the eastern side of Santo Domingo. An estimated two million people live in eastern Santo Domingo and regularly commute to western Santo Domingo (National District).
Opret director García Saleta took journalists from leading media outlets on a tour of the new line. The new stations are named: Ercilia Pepín, Rosa Duarte, Trina de Moya and Concepción Bona.
Journalist Marino Zapete on his YouTube Channel observed that President Danilo Medina had already inaugurated the 2B Line on 5 May 2016, two weeks before the 2016 presidential election.
http://eldia.com.do/la-opret-prueba-la-linea-2b-del-metro/
https://www.diariolibre.com/noticia...mo-miercoles-la-linea-2b-del-metro-KM10495780
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KB54-o1-G7E
Gonzalo Castillo: Decision on Medina’s reelection bid left to 2019
Public Works Minister Gonzalo Castillo said the country would need to wait until mid-2019 for the powers-that-be to decide whether to push through a legislative process that would lead to the possible reelection of President Danilo Medina. Medina is banned by the 2015 Constitution from running for president in 2020. However, our readers may recall the constitutional barriers existed that ‘prevented’ Danilo to seek election in the 2016 general election. However, through a concerted effort by the President’s allies who spearheaded a modification of the constitution in 2015, enabled Medina to seek reelection.
Indeed, Castillo was one of the strongest promoters for Danilo’s reelection bid in time for the 2016 general election.
“We have said that these are times to work, to work, and the second half of 2019 is when we will see what the Dominican people want,” he said when interviewed on El Sol de la Mañana.
Castillo argued that in the six years of Medina administration, the Dominican Republic has enjoyed continual growth, and is the envy of all Latin America.
Castillo said he expects an agreement to be reached between supporters of former President Leonel Fernandez and those of Danilo Medina. Fernandez is the president of the ruling PLD party and has expressed his desire to run once again for president.
During a meeting of the Political Committee of the PLD, the highest ranked deciding body of the ruling party, on Monday, 6 August 2018, the party confirmed that Radhames Camacho, of the Medina group, would preside the Chamber of Deputies and Reinaldo Pared Pérez would preside the Senate. Likewise, the party accepted the suspension of the secretary of Organization and Finances, Felix Bautista and Victor Díaz Rua, respectively, who were both relieved of their posts after it was revealed that their US visas were revoked on the grounds of the two politicians being linked to widespread corruption. Deputy Miriam Cabral and Culture Minister Eduardo Selman were appointed to replace these as secretary of organization and finances, respectively. Present at the meeting were 33 of the 35 members of the Political Committee.
https://www.diariolibre.com/noticia...ista-y-diaz-rua-en-secretarias-pld-GE10506761
Protests in Santiago over lack of aqueduct
Yesterday, 6 August 2018, dozens of people from Baitoa, in the southern part of Santiago, gathered to protest in front of the offices of the Corporation of Aqueducts and Sewers of Santiago (Coraasan), demanding for the construction of an aqueduct. The demonstration was organized by the Committee for the Construction of an Aqueduct in Baitoa, and caused a major hold up on the Southern By (Mirador Yaque), as they blocked the traffic. Also present were priests, the mayor Bernado Lopez and members of neighborhood groups and others.
https://www.listindiario.com/la-rep...san-por-falta-de-agua-en-sectores-de-santiago
Appeal over dismissal of charges delayed
The Supreme Court has heard an appeal from the Specialized Persecution of Administrative Corruption Prosecution Service (PEPCA) against the dismissal of the ex-director of the National Institute of Potable Water (INAPA), Alberto Holguín and Engineer Sobeida Perdomo. The court announced a postponement of their decision. The justices will announce a date for a future hearing when the decision could be handed down. The decision was taken by judges Frank Soto Sánchez, Alejandro Moscoso Segarra and Esther Angelan Casanovas. The ruling for the dropping of charges was handed down by a National District Court and later ratified by the Appeal Court.
https://www.diariolibre.com/noticia...ion-a-descargo-de-exdirector-inapa-GE10500565
https://www.diariolibre.com/noticia...des-casos-de-corrupcion-en-el-pais-MM10498958
Plane crash under investigation
Technicians from the Air Force, Dominican Civil Aviation Institute and the Civil Aviation Board (JAC) are investigating the causes of the crash of a military plan in the border area, resulting in the death of the pilot and serious injury to the co-pilot. The JAC team traveled to Elias Piña together with a high level military commission to investigate the scene of the crash.
The Air Force plane, number1803 had completed a mission at the border when it crashed in an an avocado farm in the Calimete hills. The Air Force has said the Enaer T- 35 Pillan had received routine maintenance checks.
The pilot, First Lieutenant Kelvin Villanueva Garay died and the co-pilot, Ángel Amauri Félix Victorino, is in the Ramón de Lara hospital being treated for his injuries.
http://hoy.com.do/indagan-las-causas-del-accidente-del-avion-de-la-fard/
Dominicans being sought by Interpol
Thirty Dominicans are being sought by the International Organization of Criminal Police (Interpol). Surprisingly, most of the wanted Dominican persons sought by Interpol are women.
Mariseida Sayas, aged 26, born in Los Bajos de Haina, disappeared on 17 February this year. There is no photograph but he is known to have black hair and Brown eyes.
2017
Domingo Figuereo de la Rosa, aged 19 and disappeared on 21 December 2017 in Santo Domingo.
2016
This year two men vanished, both men: Tinmarsan Lantigua de la Cruz, now aged 42, who disappeared on 4 November and 48 year old Rafael Ruiz Sánchez, who was last seen on 28 June 2016 in Guayaquil, Ecuador.
There were no cases in 2015
2014
A mother and her daughter disappeared in Madrid, Spain on 30 June and they are 36 year old
Adolfina Puello Sánchez, from La Altagracia, and her 13 year old daughter, Algeli Leonela Sánchez Puello.
2013
Eight people are being sought who disappeared in 2013. Twenty one year old Gloria Maciel Romero González, last seen in Santo Domingo and 44 year old Mercedes Encarnación Encarnación, from San Juan. From the same year vanished 40 year old Desirée del Carmen Mojica Ruiz, 16 year old Leidy Alexandra Mejia Vallejo, and 37 year old Marleni Francisca Ruiz Sánchez. In August of the same year 25 year old Mónica Cuello Castro and Yohelisa Cepeda Arias, aged19 both disappeared along with 19 year old Ángela Jiménez.
2012
From Santo Domingo vanished 32 year old Brenda Gómez and Rossi Emilia de los Santos Pérez, aged 36 along with 30 year old Reynaury Aracena Reyes.
https://www.listindiario.com/la-rep...icanos-desaparecidos-buscados-por-la-interpol
Frenchman murdered in Las Galeras
In Las Galeras, in Samaná, a Frenchman was murdered on Sunday, 5 August 2018.
51-year old Christophe Claude Michel Bachats, had been living in the country for over 14 years and 11 months in Las Galeras. He died of his wounds after having been shot three times, according to the medical examiner Doctor Julián Emilio Boden.
According to his Dominican partner, they were returning to their home, he on his motorcycle and she on a scooter, when they heard shots and Michel Bachats was injured. The body was sent to the Institute of Forensic Science in San Franciso de Macoris for an autopsy and the case is still under investigation.
https://elnuevodiario.com.do/matan-frances-de-varios-disparos-en-las-galeras-en-samana/
http://www.cdn.com.do/2018/08/05/desconocidos-matan-varios-disparos-nacional-frances-samana/
Police sergeant shoots and kills his wife
A sergeant from the National Police, José Antonio Olivares, has shot and killed his wife in a confusing incident which occurred on the night of Sunday, 5 August 2018, in the community of Damajagua in Esperanza, Valverde province. The victim is 27 year old Yarlenis Paulino González, who died from a bullet wound in the left side of her chest. The sergeant was arrested saying that he killed his wife accidentally when he was handling his gun. However, family members and neighbors say that they were arguing and asked for the case to be properly investigated. The body of the victim was sent to the National Institute of Forensic Science in Santiago for autopsy.
https://www.listindiario.com/la-rep...-disparo-a-su-pareja-sentimental-en-esperanza
Fourteen provinces on bad weather alert
The National Meteorological Office (Onamet) has said that due to a weather front and a tropical wave there will be thunderstorms and heavy rain across part of the country, and the high temperatures will continue.
Due to the situation there is an alert in place for Greater Santo Domingo, Monseñor Nouel, Monte Plata, Sánchez Ramírez, Hato Mayor, Duarte, Santiago, Samaná, San Cristóbal, La Vega, El Seibo, San Pedro de Macorís, Dajabón and María Trinidad Sánchez.
As the wave moves westward rainstorms are expected in the northeast, central mountain area and the border zone.
Onamet also advised of an area of low pressure off the Azores but stated it had a low chance of becoming a hurricane and presented no danger to the country.
https://www.listindiario.com/la-republica/2018/08/06/527406/aumentan-a-14-provincias-en-alerta-verde
https://www.listindiario.com/la-rep...aceros-mantiene-alerta-para-varias-provincias
Metro to be inaugurated tomorrow
Gonzalo Castillo: Decision on Medina’s reelection bid left to 2019
Protests in Santiago over lack of aqueduct
Appeal over dismissal of charges delayed
Plane crash under investigation
Dominicans being sought by Interpol
Frenchman murdered in Las Galeras
Police sergeant shoots and kills his wife
Fourteen provinces on bad weather alert
President Medina attends Colombia’s president inaugural
Today, Tuesday 7 August, President Danilo Medina is scheduled to travel to Bogotá, Colombia for the inauguration of President Iván Duque and his Vice President Marta Lucía Ramírez. He will join nine other Latin American heads of state and delegations from 17 countries at the inauguration.
Among the heads of state expected to be present are Mexico, Enrique Peña Nieto; Chile, Sebastián Piñera; Ecuador, Lenín Moreno, and Panama, Juan Carlos Varela. In addition attending will be the Heads of State from Argentina, Mauricio Macri; Bolivia, Evo Morales; Costa Rica, Carlos Alvarado; Guatemala, Jimmy Morales, and Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernández.
https://www.listindiario.com/la-rep...ombia-a-toma-de-posesion-del-nuevo-presidente
Metro to be inaugurated tomorrow
The director for the Office for the Reorganization of Transport (OPRET), Manuel Antonio Saleta García, announced that Line 2B of the Santo Domingo Metro will be inaugurated by President Danilo Medina on Wednesday, 8 August 2018. Peak hour capacity will now be increased with the installation of recently arrived cars.
The new line features elevators for persons with disabilities and a podotactyl floor for the visually impaired. Members of Cesmet (the Metro Security Corps) will be available to assist passengers with disabilities.
The new line will serve an estimated 850,000 people. It has capacity to carry 150,000 passengers a day covering 3.6 kilometers in 7 to 8 minutes. In addition the new line has created 120 new jobs. It provides a fast transit solution for those living in the eastern side of Santo Domingo. An estimated two million people live in eastern Santo Domingo and regularly commute to western Santo Domingo (National District).
Opret director García Saleta took journalists from leading media outlets on a tour of the new line. The new stations are named: Ercilia Pepín, Rosa Duarte, Trina de Moya and Concepción Bona.
Journalist Marino Zapete on his YouTube Channel observed that President Danilo Medina had already inaugurated the 2B Line on 5 May 2016, two weeks before the 2016 presidential election.
http://eldia.com.do/la-opret-prueba-la-linea-2b-del-metro/
https://www.diariolibre.com/noticia...mo-miercoles-la-linea-2b-del-metro-KM10495780
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KB54-o1-G7E
Gonzalo Castillo: Decision on Medina’s reelection bid left to 2019
Public Works Minister Gonzalo Castillo said the country would need to wait until mid-2019 for the powers-that-be to decide whether to push through a legislative process that would lead to the possible reelection of President Danilo Medina. Medina is banned by the 2015 Constitution from running for president in 2020. However, our readers may recall the constitutional barriers existed that ‘prevented’ Danilo to seek election in the 2016 general election. However, through a concerted effort by the President’s allies who spearheaded a modification of the constitution in 2015, enabled Medina to seek reelection.
Indeed, Castillo was one of the strongest promoters for Danilo’s reelection bid in time for the 2016 general election.
“We have said that these are times to work, to work, and the second half of 2019 is when we will see what the Dominican people want,” he said when interviewed on El Sol de la Mañana.
Castillo argued that in the six years of Medina administration, the Dominican Republic has enjoyed continual growth, and is the envy of all Latin America.
Castillo said he expects an agreement to be reached between supporters of former President Leonel Fernandez and those of Danilo Medina. Fernandez is the president of the ruling PLD party and has expressed his desire to run once again for president.
During a meeting of the Political Committee of the PLD, the highest ranked deciding body of the ruling party, on Monday, 6 August 2018, the party confirmed that Radhames Camacho, of the Medina group, would preside the Chamber of Deputies and Reinaldo Pared Pérez would preside the Senate. Likewise, the party accepted the suspension of the secretary of Organization and Finances, Felix Bautista and Victor Díaz Rua, respectively, who were both relieved of their posts after it was revealed that their US visas were revoked on the grounds of the two politicians being linked to widespread corruption. Deputy Miriam Cabral and Culture Minister Eduardo Selman were appointed to replace these as secretary of organization and finances, respectively. Present at the meeting were 33 of the 35 members of the Political Committee.
https://www.diariolibre.com/noticia...ista-y-diaz-rua-en-secretarias-pld-GE10506761
Protests in Santiago over lack of aqueduct
Yesterday, 6 August 2018, dozens of people from Baitoa, in the southern part of Santiago, gathered to protest in front of the offices of the Corporation of Aqueducts and Sewers of Santiago (Coraasan), demanding for the construction of an aqueduct. The demonstration was organized by the Committee for the Construction of an Aqueduct in Baitoa, and caused a major hold up on the Southern By (Mirador Yaque), as they blocked the traffic. Also present were priests, the mayor Bernado Lopez and members of neighborhood groups and others.
https://www.listindiario.com/la-rep...san-por-falta-de-agua-en-sectores-de-santiago
Appeal over dismissal of charges delayed
The Supreme Court has heard an appeal from the Specialized Persecution of Administrative Corruption Prosecution Service (PEPCA) against the dismissal of the ex-director of the National Institute of Potable Water (INAPA), Alberto Holguín and Engineer Sobeida Perdomo. The court announced a postponement of their decision. The justices will announce a date for a future hearing when the decision could be handed down. The decision was taken by judges Frank Soto Sánchez, Alejandro Moscoso Segarra and Esther Angelan Casanovas. The ruling for the dropping of charges was handed down by a National District Court and later ratified by the Appeal Court.
https://www.diariolibre.com/noticia...ion-a-descargo-de-exdirector-inapa-GE10500565
https://www.diariolibre.com/noticia...des-casos-de-corrupcion-en-el-pais-MM10498958
Plane crash under investigation
Technicians from the Air Force, Dominican Civil Aviation Institute and the Civil Aviation Board (JAC) are investigating the causes of the crash of a military plan in the border area, resulting in the death of the pilot and serious injury to the co-pilot. The JAC team traveled to Elias Piña together with a high level military commission to investigate the scene of the crash.
The Air Force plane, number1803 had completed a mission at the border when it crashed in an an avocado farm in the Calimete hills. The Air Force has said the Enaer T- 35 Pillan had received routine maintenance checks.
The pilot, First Lieutenant Kelvin Villanueva Garay died and the co-pilot, Ángel Amauri Félix Victorino, is in the Ramón de Lara hospital being treated for his injuries.
http://hoy.com.do/indagan-las-causas-del-accidente-del-avion-de-la-fard/
Dominicans being sought by Interpol
Thirty Dominicans are being sought by the International Organization of Criminal Police (Interpol). Surprisingly, most of the wanted Dominican persons sought by Interpol are women.
Mariseida Sayas, aged 26, born in Los Bajos de Haina, disappeared on 17 February this year. There is no photograph but he is known to have black hair and Brown eyes.
2017
Domingo Figuereo de la Rosa, aged 19 and disappeared on 21 December 2017 in Santo Domingo.
2016
This year two men vanished, both men: Tinmarsan Lantigua de la Cruz, now aged 42, who disappeared on 4 November and 48 year old Rafael Ruiz Sánchez, who was last seen on 28 June 2016 in Guayaquil, Ecuador.
There were no cases in 2015
2014
A mother and her daughter disappeared in Madrid, Spain on 30 June and they are 36 year old
Adolfina Puello Sánchez, from La Altagracia, and her 13 year old daughter, Algeli Leonela Sánchez Puello.
2013
Eight people are being sought who disappeared in 2013. Twenty one year old Gloria Maciel Romero González, last seen in Santo Domingo and 44 year old Mercedes Encarnación Encarnación, from San Juan. From the same year vanished 40 year old Desirée del Carmen Mojica Ruiz, 16 year old Leidy Alexandra Mejia Vallejo, and 37 year old Marleni Francisca Ruiz Sánchez. In August of the same year 25 year old Mónica Cuello Castro and Yohelisa Cepeda Arias, aged19 both disappeared along with 19 year old Ángela Jiménez.
2012
From Santo Domingo vanished 32 year old Brenda Gómez and Rossi Emilia de los Santos Pérez, aged 36 along with 30 year old Reynaury Aracena Reyes.
https://www.listindiario.com/la-rep...icanos-desaparecidos-buscados-por-la-interpol
Frenchman murdered in Las Galeras
In Las Galeras, in Samaná, a Frenchman was murdered on Sunday, 5 August 2018.
51-year old Christophe Claude Michel Bachats, had been living in the country for over 14 years and 11 months in Las Galeras. He died of his wounds after having been shot three times, according to the medical examiner Doctor Julián Emilio Boden.
According to his Dominican partner, they were returning to their home, he on his motorcycle and she on a scooter, when they heard shots and Michel Bachats was injured. The body was sent to the Institute of Forensic Science in San Franciso de Macoris for an autopsy and the case is still under investigation.
https://elnuevodiario.com.do/matan-frances-de-varios-disparos-en-las-galeras-en-samana/
http://www.cdn.com.do/2018/08/05/desconocidos-matan-varios-disparos-nacional-frances-samana/
Police sergeant shoots and kills his wife
A sergeant from the National Police, José Antonio Olivares, has shot and killed his wife in a confusing incident which occurred on the night of Sunday, 5 August 2018, in the community of Damajagua in Esperanza, Valverde province. The victim is 27 year old Yarlenis Paulino González, who died from a bullet wound in the left side of her chest. The sergeant was arrested saying that he killed his wife accidentally when he was handling his gun. However, family members and neighbors say that they were arguing and asked for the case to be properly investigated. The body of the victim was sent to the National Institute of Forensic Science in Santiago for autopsy.
https://www.listindiario.com/la-rep...-disparo-a-su-pareja-sentimental-en-esperanza
Fourteen provinces on bad weather alert
The National Meteorological Office (Onamet) has said that due to a weather front and a tropical wave there will be thunderstorms and heavy rain across part of the country, and the high temperatures will continue.
Due to the situation there is an alert in place for Greater Santo Domingo, Monseñor Nouel, Monte Plata, Sánchez Ramírez, Hato Mayor, Duarte, Santiago, Samaná, San Cristóbal, La Vega, El Seibo, San Pedro de Macorís, Dajabón and María Trinidad Sánchez.
As the wave moves westward rainstorms are expected in the northeast, central mountain area and the border zone.
Onamet also advised of an area of low pressure off the Azores but stated it had a low chance of becoming a hurricane and presented no danger to the country.
https://www.listindiario.com/la-republica/2018/08/06/527406/aumentan-a-14-provincias-en-alerta-verde
https://www.listindiario.com/la-rep...aceros-mantiene-alerta-para-varias-provincias