2007 – Page 67

Deputy Minister Jose Manuel Mateo, the director of Protected Areas at the Ministry of the Environment announced his department has empowered the Attorney General for the Protection of the Environment to proceeed legally against the sale of protected land property by the Municipality of Bani in the southwest, as reported in the Listin Diario. Mateo …

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Francisco Dominguez Brito, a former Attorney General and current president of the Senate Justice Committee, says that yesterday’s judgment on the Baninter case weakens the justice system because the decision tried to appease all sides. Dominguez, speaking in Hoy, says that despite the Solomonic intent from the judges Antonio Sanchez Mejia, Pilar Rufino and Giselle …

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Venezuela has sent a delegation of civilian and military government employees to the DR in order to share their experiences in the area of migratory control and border security. Exchange meetings began yesterday with Venezuelan Ambassador Francisco Belisario Landis and officials at the Ministry of Foreign Relations, with legislators and directors of the National Border …

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Dominicans expatriates complained of the high costs of obtaining their cedula or identification card in Spain during a meeting at El Molino restaurant in Barcelona, where Angel Lockward was representing the Dominican government. Spokespersons for Dominicans in Europe also asked for facilities to renew their Dominican driver’s licenses in Spain. Earlier this year the Spanish …

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Diario Libre is reporting that the BDI Bank and the Banco Popular Espanol have signed an agreement in order to provide financing to Dominicans living in Europe who would like to buy homes in the DR. The agreement went into effect in September and could increase the number of Dominican emigres who return to live …

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Pope Benedict XVI has appointed Valentin Reynoso Hidalgo as auxiliary bishop in the Santiago diocese. Reynoso is the parish priest at the Our Lady of the Altagracia at the same archdiocese. The priest was born in Nagua on 16 December 1942. He studied at San Tomas de Aquino seminary and the Pontificia Universidad Catolica Madre …

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The National Drug Control Department (DNCD) has apprehended two young Canadians for transporting three kilos of cocaine. The Canadians were apprehended as were four other “mules” who were on their way to the Spanish capital, Madrid. Hoy reports that the mules were carrying the drugs in their stomachs and have since had the packages removed …

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Convicted drug dealer Rolando Florian Feliz has stopped trying to obtain a conditional release from jail and has removed the application that his lawyers had submitted at the Supreme Court. Florian was taken to the Court of Appeals in San Cristobal under heavy security to sign the release petition. Florian’s previous applications for conditional release …

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92 Mexican workers who were stuck in the DR after being refused entry to the Turks & Caicos have finally made it home. Francisco Hernandez Samano, head of the Mexican Embassy’s commercial sector said that the Mexican government had chartered a Nova Air flight that left for Mexico at 9am yesterday. Thus ended the ordeal …

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Wednesday is turning out to be a big day for Dominicans in Major League Baseball. Tomorrow Dominican sluggers David Ortiz and Manny Ramirez will begin their quest for their second World Series title. The duo will lead a Red Sox team that overcame a 3-1 series deficit against the Cleveland Indians in the American League …

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