2007 – Page 123

In a 13 August release, TiVo says that the Dominican Republic Tourism brand has distinguished itself for making the TiVo Stop||Watch Commercial Rankings in the “Least Fast-Forwarded” list on multiple occasions. The DR made the top 5 of the list in May and again in June for its “inexhaustible” campaign. In the more recent June …

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Today’s Chicago Tribune focuses on how thousands of jobs are at risk in the DR because of US legislation that will hike taxes on cigars to help fund an expansion of children’s health insurance. The newspaper explains that a US$10 cigar would pay US$3 under the Senate bill. Producers in the DR, Nicaragua and Honduras …

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Prosecutor Francisco Garcia began to present the closing arguments for the state yesterday, representing the Superintendence of Banks and the Central Bank lawyers versus collapsed bank Baninter. Accusations and proof against Ramon Baez Figueroa, Marcos Baez Cocco, Vivian Lubrano, Jesus Maria Troncoso Ferrua and Luis Alvarez Renta were outlined in the first day of closing …

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Acting on a complaint from a Haitian woman, District prosecutor Jose Manuel Hernandez Peguero searched and closed a pornography website production happening in a city apartment. In the search, the prosecutors released 12 Haitian women who were allegedly performing in pornographic movies by German Lutz Robert Gunther Meyerding. The anonymous Haitian woman said she had …

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The National Drug Control Department (DNCD) and the Dominican Air Force have announced that they had found a burned out twin-engine airplane and 150 kilograms of cocaine in a field in Higuey, the capital of La Altagracia province. According to the report several people were being held for questioning. Colonel Guillermo Manueta, the DNCD head …

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President Leonel Fernandez has designated Major General Daysi Liriano Paulino as director of the auxiliary police, while Colonel Jose Ignacio Sandoval Cabrera was appointed to the post of director of the National Prisons Department. Sandoval replaces Juan Ramon de la Cruz Martinez, who was not reassigned to another post. General Franklin Vittini Duran was appointed …

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The Tax Department (DGII) will return RD$40 million to vehicle owners who renewed their license plates before President Leonel Fernandez suspended this year’s fee increase. Listin Diario explains that vehicle owners who have already paid for the renewal will receive checks that can be cashed ten days after Congress passes the bill. President Fernandez instructed …

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Customs director Miguel Coco says that the Customs Department (DGA) will not prosecute small business operators suspected of selling fake designer merchandise. As reported in El Dia, he said that DGA policy is “to go after the millions and then the pennies.” He said their focus is on the freight containers, not small stores. He …

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Santo Domingo’s UASD University has opened a day care center on campus that will provide students who are mothers with the option of continuing their studies while leaving their children in safe hands. The center cost RD$12 million and was inaugurated in May. The center has a capacity for 200 children between the ages of …

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The National Aquarium is being closed temporarily in order to repair the damage caused by Hurricane Dean. The aquarium will be closed for 15 days and Aquarium director Enrique Pugibet says that the repairs will cost RD$2 million. The aquarium suffered some structural damage, but Pugibet said that the aquarium’s emergency plan worked and that …

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