San Juan de la Maguana gets renovated public hospital
2019 Book Fair to be held in Colonial City
COE announces Safe Christmas Operation
Cedimat doubles physician co-payment
DR distrusts UN solutions for Haiti
Relocate industries from urban areas to outskirts
Embraer executives sentenced in Brazil for Dominican bribes
722 cocaine packages seized
Military, police and DNCD involved in drug contraband?
Money talks again? Sentenced to 30 years for homicide escapes
Valdespin and Lowey get best player awards in baseball
Anthony Santos bash in San Cristobal
Anthony Rios show at Capital Club
Nemanja Radulovic and The Trills at the Palacio de Bellas Artes
Alexandre Pires booked for February 2019
San Juan de la Maguana gets renovated public hospital
President Danilo Medina was in San Juan de la Maguana on Monday, 17 December 2018, for the inauguration of the Hospital Dr. Alejandro Cabral, the city’s main public hospital. The hospital has areas for emergency, vaccination, maternity and pediatrics, dentistry, general medicine, and diagnostics lab, morgue, and cholera, TB and HIV units. The renovation of the center was under the Office of Supervisory Engineers of Public Works (OISOE), a division of the Presidency.
https://presidencia.gob.do/noticias...dr-alejandro-cabral-en-san-juan-de-la-maguana
2019 Book Fair to be held in Colonial City
Culture Minister Eduardo Selman announced that the 2019 Santo Domingo Book Fair would take place in 2019 inside the historic center of the capital city. The event is held annually for two weeks to a month in April-May. Previously, the book fair has been held at the National Music Conservatory-Parque Iberoamericano or at the Plaza de la Cultura. The Ministry of Culture has not announced the dates for the 2019 fair.
Culture Minister Eduardo Selman said that the government is investing more than RD$700 million to renovate the cultural spaces that are part of the Plaza de la Cultura Juan Pablo Duarte. He made the announcements when speaking at the Long Night of the Museums that took place on Saturday, 15 December 2018 in the Colonial City.
Selman said that a route for the bookstands is being designed from Calle Las Damas to Plaza España. The Ministry will also be integrating the Casa de Duarte and the Iglesia de Santa Barbara and its environs as venues for book fair activities in the Colonial City.
COE announces Safe Christmas Operation
The Center for Emergency Operations (COE) announced its Safe Christmas Operation 2018-2019 that calls for the participation of 39,233 persons, including physicians, paramedics, military, police, search and rescue specialists and volunteers. The effort includes prevention awareness actions to reduce food and alcohol intoxication and traffic accidents.
On roads around the country, some 1,831 aid stations have been set up at critical points. Assisting the brigades are 139 ambulances, three helicopters, 95 units for rapid response, 23 vehicular rescue units and nine regional command centers, as well as 33 mobile car workshops.
The National Transit and Transport Institute (Intrant) announced the usual ban on cargo trucks transiting from Sunday, 23 December through Wednesday, 26 December 2018 and from Sunday, 30 December through Wednesday, 2 January 2019.
Cedimat doubles physician co-payment
The Center for Diagnostics, Advanced Medicine and Telemedicine (Cedimat) in the Plaza de la Salud area has increased the difference patients that are affiliated to health plans need to pay to see an attending from RD$600 to RD$1,100, Diario Libre reports. The new fees began on 1 December 2018. Only affiliates to the governmental Senasa health plan keep their old payment fees.
https://www.diariolibre.com/actualidad/salud/cedimat-aumento-diferencias-consultas-BA11662560
DR distrusts UN solutions for Haiti
The United Nations General Assembly voted nearly unanimously Monday, 17 December 2018, to adopt the Global Compact on Refugees that the UN describes as a framework to strengthen the international response to the global refugee crisis. Of 181 countries, two countries voted against, the United States and Hungary. The Dominican Republic, Eritrea and Libya abstained.
"It is a global commitment to step up and shoulder our responsibilities toward refugees, to find solutions that respect their human rights, to provide them with hope, and to recognize the legal responsibility to protect and support them," said UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed in welcoming the vote.
The Dominican Republic negotiators had participated in the process of preparing the agreement. Nevertheless, once the existence of the agreement was made known in the country upon the imminent signing, there was widespread opposition to the pact.
El Dia explains the distrust in an editorial on 18 December 2018. “The vast majority of Dominicans distrust the intentions of international organizations regarding the issue of migration and therefore the almost generalized rejection to the country subscribing to the global pacts for migration and refugees promoted by the United Nations.”
The editorialist recalls the “intemperate attacks that were perpetrated against the Dominican Republic by UN agencies.” Furthermore, he explains: “There is doubt about the good faith of a UN for the Dominican Republic in the face of the problem represented by a Haiti that the agency intervened for more than ten years and could not put it on the path to economic or institutional development.”
The editorialist stresses that the Dominican government has acted prudently by not signing of the pacts. The editorialist continues:
“The Dominican Republic has shown more than enough signs of being a nation in solidarity with immigrants, even when it has had to welcome real refugees and in the process applied a model plan for the regularization of foreigners, the first of this type completely free at a global level.
“The Dominican Republic is committed and obliged by its own Constitution to respect the human rights of all, it has its migratory laws, which must be applied according to the national interest.
“Our nation is committed to the general statements of both pacts and has been demonstrating our commitments in our policies and actions, but we must be watchful that they do not want to use future interpretations of what is agreed upon today to charge the country with the crises of others, provoked by others.
“In that matter, definitely, the UN does not generate confidence in Dominicans,” concludes the editorial.
http://eldia.com.do/desconfianza-2/
https://www.voanews.com/a/un-states-adopt-global-compact-on-refugees/4704673.html
https://www.metrord.do/do/destacado...irmara-pacto-global-sobre-los-refugiados.html
http://hoy.com.do/afirma-pacto-migratorio-no-fue-evaluado-en-rd/
Relocate industries from urban areas to outskirts
The secretary general of the Dominican Municipal League, Johnny Jones proposes a public-private effort to relocate large industries outside of areas with dense residential populations to take advantage of the new Circunvalacion de Santo Domingo. He proposes relocating industries to land that has good access to the Santo Domingo bypass road that was built to get the big freight trucks out of the city of Santo Domingo.
The new road opens up large areas where industries could be relocated. He favored the government moving the companies to State Sugar Council (CEA) land that is located alongside the Circunvalacion Norte in exchange for the land where the factories are located in the center of the city. He said many of the industries that have been engulfed by urban sprawl are time bombs. He said if this were to occur, human settlements in the environs this time should be completely prohibited.
A recent explosion caused by a natural gas leakage at the Polyplas factory resulted in nine dead and around 100 injured, and over 25 homes seriously damaged.
https://reddenoticias.online/jones-propone-sacar-industrias-del-centro-del-dn/
Embraer executives sentenced in Brazil for Dominican bribes
Brazilian justice sentenced ten former Embraer executives for having paid US$3.5 million in bribes to Dominican Air Force colonel Carlos Piccini Nuñez. Piccini was the director of special projects for the Dominican Air Force. The former Embraer executives include vice president Eduardo Muñoz de Campos. The bribes were to guarantee the sale of eight Super Tucano airplanes to the Dominican Republic for US$92 million during the Leonel Fernandez administration. The case came to the open after the US Department of Justice sentenced the company in a US court.
A court in the Dominican Republic ordered Embraer to pay a fine of US$7.04 million that is double what the company had admitted in the US court to having paid in 2009 to ensure the Embraer contract.
https://www.efe.com/efe/english/bus...ribery-in-dominican-republic/50000265-3764197
https://listindiario.com/la-republi...ondenan-a-10-en-brasil-por-soborno-de-tucanos
722 cocaine packages seized
The Dominican authorities seized 722 packages of drugs, presumably cocaine, that had arrived from Colombia during an operation on the coast of Boca de Yuma, La Altagracia province, said the National Drug Control Agency (DNCD). The operation had a deployment by air, sea and land, anti-narcotics officers and troops of the Armada, supported by the Army Air Cavalry, explained the DNCD in a statement. The DNCD reported that the drug traffickers took advantage of the darkness to escape.
Military, police and DNCD involved in drug contraband?
There is too little information or advances on juridical investigations of the participation of military, police and National Drug Control Agency officers in recent crimes, as revealed in a wrapup of past cases published in El Nacional. The newspaper reports on a series of crimes for which the press has not been able to find evidence that these cases are moving through the judiciary and speculates that “there seems to be an interest in covering up prominent cases.”
Among the cases for which there is no information is that of an assault at a branch of Banco Popular Dominicano. Another case that has seemingly disappeared is the seizing of contraband of 1,000 kilos of cocaine at Haina Port. El Nacional further notes that the case of two pineapple vendors who were murdered near the Mercado Nuevo of Duarte Ave in Villas Agricolas, near Capotillo has not been solved. The vendor was named as Hansel Arias and the pineapple producer was named Freddy Lantigua and is from Cotui.
El Nacional reports that in recent weeks, drug control agents, the Attorney General and the J2 investigations arm of the Army have seized several drug shipments with at least 4,000 kilos at ports, airports, high seas, and roads. Recently, there was a shooting in Maleconcito of Los Mina Norte, reported by Peravia senator Wilton Guerrero as Police officers trying to grab the money stolen from the Banco Popular branch in Ensanche Isabelita, Santo Domingo Este, that dates back to 30 June. In that case, Police Mayor Moisés Montero Amador was killed and Colonel Manuel Antonio Cabrera Sarita, and lieutenant colonels Rafael Tapia Rosario and Félix Peralta Castillo, and sargeant Biojary Antonio Pérez Colón were injured. One of the bank robbers was killed, also.
El Nacional recalls that in the case of the 1,000 kilos seized at the East Haina Port, the cocaine was shipped from Colombia and arrived on San Amerigo boat whose captain Andrzej Kielski and 21 crew members were let go and the same day the ship continues on to its destination in Haiti. In this case, the Attorney General had said that it appeared that five DNCD agents were suspects, as confirmed by the president of the DNCD, Major General Jose Eugenio Matos de la Cruz on 5 December 2018, but no accusations have been made in the case investigated by West Santo Domingo prosecutor, Edward Lopez.
https://elnacional.com.do/silencio-encubre-serios-delitos-ligan-militares-y-policias/
http://noticialibre.com/2018/11/30/...los-de-cocaina-al-puerto-dominicano-de-haina/
Money talks again? Sentenced to 30 years for homicide escapes
33-year old Jorge Gabriel Baez Abreu was serving a 30-year homicide sentence handed down in 2015 by a Puerto Plata court for the attempted murder of two people. The sentence had been confirmed by the Supreme Court of Justice in 2017.
But Baez seemingly maneuvered to get out of jail to receive medical assistance at the Clinica Costa Norte and the occasion was taken advantage of by two armed men who managed to separate the prisoner from his guards and helped him escape. Baez had been serving his sentence for the attempted murder of Henry Natanael Veras López and Pedro Parra Almonte in Puerto Plata at the Fortaleza Olegario Tenares in Nagua. They escaped with Baez on board a Toyota Prado that was later abandoned in Cabrera on the north coast.
Attorney General Jean Alain Rodriguez ordered an investigation.
https://www.diariolibre.com/actuali...gua-halla-vehiculo-que-lo-traslado-FD11655473
https://do.vlex.com/vid/sentencia-no-segunda-sala-727679681
https://listindiario.com/la-republi...por-explotacion-sexual-e-intento-de-homicidio
http://www.puertoplatadigital.com/verNoticia.aspx?Id=19104
https://elnacional.com.do/procurador-ordena-investigacion-por-fuga-de-preso-en-nagua/
http://hoy.com.do/procurador-instruye-investigar-fuga-de-interno-desde-centro-de-salud-en-nagua/
https://listindiario.com/la-republi...elicula-escape-de-recluso-de-clinica-en-nagua
Valdespin and Lowey get best player awards in baseball
Jordany Valdespin of the Toros del Este was voted the most valuable player of the regular season of the Dominican Professional Winter Baseball Championship 2018. Valdespin won the Dominican tournament MVP are receiving the most votes by participating Dominican sports writers. The awards are organized by Producciones Apolo for the Dominican Professional Winter Baseball League (Lidom). In October 2018, Baseball America had already chosen him as Independent Leagues Player of the Year. He is the first Dominican to win the Baseball America award.
The follow up for the Premio Felipe Rojas Alou was Junior Lake, of the Estrellas Orientales. Valdespin was key to helping the Toros del Este make it to the round robin after a three-year absence from the post-season.
The sports writers chose import Josh Lowey of the Leones del Escogido, the best pitcher. He will receive the Guayubin Olivo award.
The Coach of the Year award went to Fernando Tatis of the Estrellas Orientales. And pitcher Genesis Cabrera of the Tigres del Licey was voted the Rookie of the Year.
https://www.diariolibre.com/deporte...mv-con-el-voto-masivo-de-cronistas-DD11653671
https://elnacional.com.do/jordany-v...torneo-beisbol-rd-tatis-el-dirigente-del-ano/
Anthony Santos bash in San Cristobal
Bachata king Anthony Santos will be at El Viajero night spot in San Cristobal for a Christmas performance. “Bazucazo Navideño” this year known as “La Historia de mi Vida, El Final, El Espectaculo” is set for Saturday evening, 22 December 2018. Tickets are available online at Ticketexpress (ticket.com.do)
Anthony Rios show at Capital Club
Capital Club 105 presents Anthony Rios, “La Bohemia” in concert. Wednesday, 26 December 2018 at 9pm. Capital Club 105 is located at Calle Jose Amado Soler corner Av. Abraham Lincoln. Tickets are expected to sell out. Purchase tickets in advance by calling 809 636-1168.
Nemanja Radulovic and The Trills at the Palacio de Bellas Artes
Violinist Nemanja Radulovic and his strings quintet The Trills will be playing at the Palacio de Bellas Artes on 23 January 2019. The concert is a benefit for the Fiesta Clasica Foundation.
The Symphony Orchestra of the Foundation, led by Eduardo Abi Harb, and the Great Chorus of the Foundation led by José Briceño will perform classical and popular music for the Wednesday, 23 January 2019 concert.
Alexandre Pires booked for February 2019
Brazilian singer-songwriter Alexandre Pires will be performing at the Hard Rock Live Santo Domingo on 22 February 2019 at 8pm. He will then travel to Punta Cana for a performance at the Hard Rock Punta Cana on 23 February. He is best known for his Samba hits “Amor verdadero”, “Ámame”, “Es por amor”, “Quitémonos la ropa”, “Necesidad”, among others. Pires has included the Dominican Republic as a stop on his tour “My Corazón Latino”.
2019 Book Fair to be held in Colonial City
COE announces Safe Christmas Operation
Cedimat doubles physician co-payment
DR distrusts UN solutions for Haiti
Relocate industries from urban areas to outskirts
Embraer executives sentenced in Brazil for Dominican bribes
722 cocaine packages seized
Military, police and DNCD involved in drug contraband?
Money talks again? Sentenced to 30 years for homicide escapes
Valdespin and Lowey get best player awards in baseball
Anthony Santos bash in San Cristobal
Anthony Rios show at Capital Club
Nemanja Radulovic and The Trills at the Palacio de Bellas Artes
Alexandre Pires booked for February 2019
San Juan de la Maguana gets renovated public hospital
President Danilo Medina was in San Juan de la Maguana on Monday, 17 December 2018, for the inauguration of the Hospital Dr. Alejandro Cabral, the city’s main public hospital. The hospital has areas for emergency, vaccination, maternity and pediatrics, dentistry, general medicine, and diagnostics lab, morgue, and cholera, TB and HIV units. The renovation of the center was under the Office of Supervisory Engineers of Public Works (OISOE), a division of the Presidency.
https://presidencia.gob.do/noticias...dr-alejandro-cabral-en-san-juan-de-la-maguana
2019 Book Fair to be held in Colonial City
Culture Minister Eduardo Selman announced that the 2019 Santo Domingo Book Fair would take place in 2019 inside the historic center of the capital city. The event is held annually for two weeks to a month in April-May. Previously, the book fair has been held at the National Music Conservatory-Parque Iberoamericano or at the Plaza de la Cultura. The Ministry of Culture has not announced the dates for the 2019 fair.
Culture Minister Eduardo Selman said that the government is investing more than RD$700 million to renovate the cultural spaces that are part of the Plaza de la Cultura Juan Pablo Duarte. He made the announcements when speaking at the Long Night of the Museums that took place on Saturday, 15 December 2018 in the Colonial City.
Selman said that a route for the bookstands is being designed from Calle Las Damas to Plaza España. The Ministry will also be integrating the Casa de Duarte and the Iglesia de Santa Barbara and its environs as venues for book fair activities in the Colonial City.
COE announces Safe Christmas Operation
The Center for Emergency Operations (COE) announced its Safe Christmas Operation 2018-2019 that calls for the participation of 39,233 persons, including physicians, paramedics, military, police, search and rescue specialists and volunteers. The effort includes prevention awareness actions to reduce food and alcohol intoxication and traffic accidents.
On roads around the country, some 1,831 aid stations have been set up at critical points. Assisting the brigades are 139 ambulances, three helicopters, 95 units for rapid response, 23 vehicular rescue units and nine regional command centers, as well as 33 mobile car workshops.
The National Transit and Transport Institute (Intrant) announced the usual ban on cargo trucks transiting from Sunday, 23 December through Wednesday, 26 December 2018 and from Sunday, 30 December through Wednesday, 2 January 2019.
Cedimat doubles physician co-payment
The Center for Diagnostics, Advanced Medicine and Telemedicine (Cedimat) in the Plaza de la Salud area has increased the difference patients that are affiliated to health plans need to pay to see an attending from RD$600 to RD$1,100, Diario Libre reports. The new fees began on 1 December 2018. Only affiliates to the governmental Senasa health plan keep their old payment fees.
https://www.diariolibre.com/actualidad/salud/cedimat-aumento-diferencias-consultas-BA11662560
DR distrusts UN solutions for Haiti
The United Nations General Assembly voted nearly unanimously Monday, 17 December 2018, to adopt the Global Compact on Refugees that the UN describes as a framework to strengthen the international response to the global refugee crisis. Of 181 countries, two countries voted against, the United States and Hungary. The Dominican Republic, Eritrea and Libya abstained.
"It is a global commitment to step up and shoulder our responsibilities toward refugees, to find solutions that respect their human rights, to provide them with hope, and to recognize the legal responsibility to protect and support them," said UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed in welcoming the vote.
The Dominican Republic negotiators had participated in the process of preparing the agreement. Nevertheless, once the existence of the agreement was made known in the country upon the imminent signing, there was widespread opposition to the pact.
El Dia explains the distrust in an editorial on 18 December 2018. “The vast majority of Dominicans distrust the intentions of international organizations regarding the issue of migration and therefore the almost generalized rejection to the country subscribing to the global pacts for migration and refugees promoted by the United Nations.”
The editorialist recalls the “intemperate attacks that were perpetrated against the Dominican Republic by UN agencies.” Furthermore, he explains: “There is doubt about the good faith of a UN for the Dominican Republic in the face of the problem represented by a Haiti that the agency intervened for more than ten years and could not put it on the path to economic or institutional development.”
The editorialist stresses that the Dominican government has acted prudently by not signing of the pacts. The editorialist continues:
“The Dominican Republic has shown more than enough signs of being a nation in solidarity with immigrants, even when it has had to welcome real refugees and in the process applied a model plan for the regularization of foreigners, the first of this type completely free at a global level.
“The Dominican Republic is committed and obliged by its own Constitution to respect the human rights of all, it has its migratory laws, which must be applied according to the national interest.
“Our nation is committed to the general statements of both pacts and has been demonstrating our commitments in our policies and actions, but we must be watchful that they do not want to use future interpretations of what is agreed upon today to charge the country with the crises of others, provoked by others.
“In that matter, definitely, the UN does not generate confidence in Dominicans,” concludes the editorial.
http://eldia.com.do/desconfianza-2/
https://www.voanews.com/a/un-states-adopt-global-compact-on-refugees/4704673.html
https://www.metrord.do/do/destacado...irmara-pacto-global-sobre-los-refugiados.html
http://hoy.com.do/afirma-pacto-migratorio-no-fue-evaluado-en-rd/
Relocate industries from urban areas to outskirts
The secretary general of the Dominican Municipal League, Johnny Jones proposes a public-private effort to relocate large industries outside of areas with dense residential populations to take advantage of the new Circunvalacion de Santo Domingo. He proposes relocating industries to land that has good access to the Santo Domingo bypass road that was built to get the big freight trucks out of the city of Santo Domingo.
The new road opens up large areas where industries could be relocated. He favored the government moving the companies to State Sugar Council (CEA) land that is located alongside the Circunvalacion Norte in exchange for the land where the factories are located in the center of the city. He said many of the industries that have been engulfed by urban sprawl are time bombs. He said if this were to occur, human settlements in the environs this time should be completely prohibited.
A recent explosion caused by a natural gas leakage at the Polyplas factory resulted in nine dead and around 100 injured, and over 25 homes seriously damaged.
https://reddenoticias.online/jones-propone-sacar-industrias-del-centro-del-dn/
Embraer executives sentenced in Brazil for Dominican bribes
Brazilian justice sentenced ten former Embraer executives for having paid US$3.5 million in bribes to Dominican Air Force colonel Carlos Piccini Nuñez. Piccini was the director of special projects for the Dominican Air Force. The former Embraer executives include vice president Eduardo Muñoz de Campos. The bribes were to guarantee the sale of eight Super Tucano airplanes to the Dominican Republic for US$92 million during the Leonel Fernandez administration. The case came to the open after the US Department of Justice sentenced the company in a US court.
A court in the Dominican Republic ordered Embraer to pay a fine of US$7.04 million that is double what the company had admitted in the US court to having paid in 2009 to ensure the Embraer contract.
https://www.efe.com/efe/english/bus...ribery-in-dominican-republic/50000265-3764197
https://listindiario.com/la-republi...ondenan-a-10-en-brasil-por-soborno-de-tucanos
722 cocaine packages seized
The Dominican authorities seized 722 packages of drugs, presumably cocaine, that had arrived from Colombia during an operation on the coast of Boca de Yuma, La Altagracia province, said the National Drug Control Agency (DNCD). The operation had a deployment by air, sea and land, anti-narcotics officers and troops of the Armada, supported by the Army Air Cavalry, explained the DNCD in a statement. The DNCD reported that the drug traffickers took advantage of the darkness to escape.
Military, police and DNCD involved in drug contraband?
There is too little information or advances on juridical investigations of the participation of military, police and National Drug Control Agency officers in recent crimes, as revealed in a wrapup of past cases published in El Nacional. The newspaper reports on a series of crimes for which the press has not been able to find evidence that these cases are moving through the judiciary and speculates that “there seems to be an interest in covering up prominent cases.”
Among the cases for which there is no information is that of an assault at a branch of Banco Popular Dominicano. Another case that has seemingly disappeared is the seizing of contraband of 1,000 kilos of cocaine at Haina Port. El Nacional further notes that the case of two pineapple vendors who were murdered near the Mercado Nuevo of Duarte Ave in Villas Agricolas, near Capotillo has not been solved. The vendor was named as Hansel Arias and the pineapple producer was named Freddy Lantigua and is from Cotui.
El Nacional reports that in recent weeks, drug control agents, the Attorney General and the J2 investigations arm of the Army have seized several drug shipments with at least 4,000 kilos at ports, airports, high seas, and roads. Recently, there was a shooting in Maleconcito of Los Mina Norte, reported by Peravia senator Wilton Guerrero as Police officers trying to grab the money stolen from the Banco Popular branch in Ensanche Isabelita, Santo Domingo Este, that dates back to 30 June. In that case, Police Mayor Moisés Montero Amador was killed and Colonel Manuel Antonio Cabrera Sarita, and lieutenant colonels Rafael Tapia Rosario and Félix Peralta Castillo, and sargeant Biojary Antonio Pérez Colón were injured. One of the bank robbers was killed, also.
El Nacional recalls that in the case of the 1,000 kilos seized at the East Haina Port, the cocaine was shipped from Colombia and arrived on San Amerigo boat whose captain Andrzej Kielski and 21 crew members were let go and the same day the ship continues on to its destination in Haiti. In this case, the Attorney General had said that it appeared that five DNCD agents were suspects, as confirmed by the president of the DNCD, Major General Jose Eugenio Matos de la Cruz on 5 December 2018, but no accusations have been made in the case investigated by West Santo Domingo prosecutor, Edward Lopez.
https://elnacional.com.do/silencio-encubre-serios-delitos-ligan-militares-y-policias/
http://noticialibre.com/2018/11/30/...los-de-cocaina-al-puerto-dominicano-de-haina/
Money talks again? Sentenced to 30 years for homicide escapes
33-year old Jorge Gabriel Baez Abreu was serving a 30-year homicide sentence handed down in 2015 by a Puerto Plata court for the attempted murder of two people. The sentence had been confirmed by the Supreme Court of Justice in 2017.
But Baez seemingly maneuvered to get out of jail to receive medical assistance at the Clinica Costa Norte and the occasion was taken advantage of by two armed men who managed to separate the prisoner from his guards and helped him escape. Baez had been serving his sentence for the attempted murder of Henry Natanael Veras López and Pedro Parra Almonte in Puerto Plata at the Fortaleza Olegario Tenares in Nagua. They escaped with Baez on board a Toyota Prado that was later abandoned in Cabrera on the north coast.
Attorney General Jean Alain Rodriguez ordered an investigation.
https://www.diariolibre.com/actuali...gua-halla-vehiculo-que-lo-traslado-FD11655473
https://do.vlex.com/vid/sentencia-no-segunda-sala-727679681
https://listindiario.com/la-republi...por-explotacion-sexual-e-intento-de-homicidio
http://www.puertoplatadigital.com/verNoticia.aspx?Id=19104
https://elnacional.com.do/procurador-ordena-investigacion-por-fuga-de-preso-en-nagua/
http://hoy.com.do/procurador-instruye-investigar-fuga-de-interno-desde-centro-de-salud-en-nagua/
https://listindiario.com/la-republi...elicula-escape-de-recluso-de-clinica-en-nagua
Valdespin and Lowey get best player awards in baseball
Jordany Valdespin of the Toros del Este was voted the most valuable player of the regular season of the Dominican Professional Winter Baseball Championship 2018. Valdespin won the Dominican tournament MVP are receiving the most votes by participating Dominican sports writers. The awards are organized by Producciones Apolo for the Dominican Professional Winter Baseball League (Lidom). In October 2018, Baseball America had already chosen him as Independent Leagues Player of the Year. He is the first Dominican to win the Baseball America award.
The follow up for the Premio Felipe Rojas Alou was Junior Lake, of the Estrellas Orientales. Valdespin was key to helping the Toros del Este make it to the round robin after a three-year absence from the post-season.
The sports writers chose import Josh Lowey of the Leones del Escogido, the best pitcher. He will receive the Guayubin Olivo award.
The Coach of the Year award went to Fernando Tatis of the Estrellas Orientales. And pitcher Genesis Cabrera of the Tigres del Licey was voted the Rookie of the Year.
https://www.diariolibre.com/deporte...mv-con-el-voto-masivo-de-cronistas-DD11653671
https://elnacional.com.do/jordany-v...torneo-beisbol-rd-tatis-el-dirigente-del-ano/
Anthony Santos bash in San Cristobal
Bachata king Anthony Santos will be at El Viajero night spot in San Cristobal for a Christmas performance. “Bazucazo Navideño” this year known as “La Historia de mi Vida, El Final, El Espectaculo” is set for Saturday evening, 22 December 2018. Tickets are available online at Ticketexpress (ticket.com.do)
Anthony Rios show at Capital Club
Capital Club 105 presents Anthony Rios, “La Bohemia” in concert. Wednesday, 26 December 2018 at 9pm. Capital Club 105 is located at Calle Jose Amado Soler corner Av. Abraham Lincoln. Tickets are expected to sell out. Purchase tickets in advance by calling 809 636-1168.
Nemanja Radulovic and The Trills at the Palacio de Bellas Artes
Violinist Nemanja Radulovic and his strings quintet The Trills will be playing at the Palacio de Bellas Artes on 23 January 2019. The concert is a benefit for the Fiesta Clasica Foundation.
The Symphony Orchestra of the Foundation, led by Eduardo Abi Harb, and the Great Chorus of the Foundation led by José Briceño will perform classical and popular music for the Wednesday, 23 January 2019 concert.
Alexandre Pires booked for February 2019
Brazilian singer-songwriter Alexandre Pires will be performing at the Hard Rock Live Santo Domingo on 22 February 2019 at 8pm. He will then travel to Punta Cana for a performance at the Hard Rock Punta Cana on 23 February. He is best known for his Samba hits “Amor verdadero”, “Ámame”, “Es por amor”, “Quitémonos la ropa”, “Necesidad”, among others. Pires has included the Dominican Republic as a stop on his tour “My Corazón Latino”.