2006 – Page 273

The creation of the new Matias Ramon Mella Province has been approved in the first hearing of the bill by the Senate. El Caribe reports that 19 senators voted in favor of Tonty Rutinel’s proposal to convert the current municipality of Santo Domingo east into a separate province. The bill must now be voted on …

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A team of 18 specialists – including physicians, nurses, and social workers – from the Shriners Burns Hospital in Boston, held an outreach clinic yesterday at Universidad Catolica de Santo Domingo’s Rehabilitation Center, during which 133 children with scars and deformities caused by severe burns were treated and evaluated. The children are from low-income families …

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Acting Attorney General, Rodolfo Espineira, said yesterday that when a judge orders telephone tapping or any other surveillance procedure, the Justice Department must comply because that is the law. Diario Libre reports that Espineira reacted in those terms when asked about his opinion about complaints by Executive Branch Anti-Narcotics Advisor Marino Vinicio Castillo (Vincho) who …

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The Attorney General and District Attorney Departments are finishing up details for the extradition request of former Lieutenant Colonel Pedro Julio (Pepe) Goico Guerrero, who faces charges of money laundering connected to drug trafficking in the Quirino Ernesto Paulino Castillo case. Both departments confirmed to Diario Libre that pending procedures are being worked on to …

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A man who is being sought for extradition by the US for his connection to the Quirino Ernesto Paulino Castillo case, was arrested at Las Americas International Airport on his return from Cuba. Diario Libre reports that Jose Ortega de Leon was arrested as he walked down the stairs of the airplane that brought him …

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National Drug Control Department (DNCD) president, Rear Admiral Ivan Pena Castillo, reported that three people have been arrested in connection with the seizure of 235 kilos of cocaine in western Santo Domingo last Saturday after DNCD agents chased two suspects from Haina Oriental port to Herrera and found 196 packs of cocaine in their vehicle. …

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The army and other official security organizations have shut down “Guardianes Veganos, S.A.”, a private watchman company that was allegedly operating irregularly in four provinces in the north of the country, according to a report in Diario Libre. The operation took place simultaneously in La Vega, Duarte, Espaillat and Maria Trinidad Sanchez provinces. Close to …

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President Leonel Fernandez visited the British Houses of Parliament on Wednesday morning in the company of Prime Minister Tony Blair. He was received by the Director of the Parliament Caribbean Council, David Jessop. Later, Fernandez attended a luncheon hosted by the Parliament’s Group of Friends of the Dominican Republic, led by Lord Foulkes. Later in …

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Yesterday, the United Kingdom and the Dominican Republic governments signed a bilateral agreement that opens the way for regular commercial flights between the two countries. The agreement was signed by Foreign Relations Minister Carlos Morales Troncoso and his British counterpart, Jack Straw, and states that airlines determined by both governments will have equal opportunities to …

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After the deadline for registering candidates for the upcoming Congressional and municipal elections was extended and the protests from several political organizations that this decision has generated, the Central Electoral Board (JCE) will meet tomorrow to decide about the eligibility of candidacies registered after the original deadline. Diario Libre reports that this will be a …

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