2008 – Page 38

There has been a noticeable drop in temperatures in recent days, marking the arrival of the Christmas season for Dominicans. Strong breezes have made once-smoldering hot afternoons more pleasant. Residents of Santo Domingo can be seen walking around at night with light sweaters to keep them warm. Meteorologists say temperatures will oscillate between 21 C …

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A timely walk by Jake Fox was all the Tigres needed for a 6-5 victory over the Gigantes. The Tigres have come roaring back into the playoff picture and are now in first place in the Winter League standings. The Aguilas also kept pace last night with a 7-2 smashing of the Estrellas. Though the …

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As usual there are a dozen very worthy events happening in Santo Domingo, the cultural capital of the Caribbean. The II Global Film Festival is taking place in Santo Domingo (and also in movie halls in Santiago, Puerto Plata, Higuey and Nagua), Haitian legendary painter Sacha Tebo is exhibiting at Arawak Art Gallery, the Museum …

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President Leonel Fernandez will be hosting a world-class economic summit at Casa de Campo, La Romana this weekend, 22-23 November. The workshop, which is organized by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the Dominican government, will be inaugurated at 4pm Saturday with a keynote speech by President Fernandez and another …

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President Leonel Fernandez will head up a meeting of the National Development Council (CND) to start discussing the budget law for 2009. The meeting will examine and analyze budget requests from the Ministries, autonomous organizations and decentralized government entities. The meeting between the Ministers, administrators and director generals of all state dependencies was set for …

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Hundreds of people marched against domestic violence yesterday in an event organized by the Attorney General’s office. On the theme “Zero Tolerance for Violence against Women”, the march started at 4 in the afternoon, and left from Kilometer 0 of Mirador Sur Park, and went down Winston Churchill Avenue ending in front of the Justice …

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The Joint Commission that is studying the proposal that will declare the need to carry out a reform of the Constitution has postponed any further discussions on the initiative and the changes in the Constitution until January in order to give top priority to the budget and other pending initiatives. Nevertheless, the commission will meet …

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Despite having started the distribution of the school breakfast on 5 September, so far over 62 million servings have been distributed, but nobody knows the nutritional level of the snacks since the government has not made public quality monitoring tests that may or may not have been carried out. According to Hoy reporter Carmen Matos, …

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The congressional mediators and the Dominican Medical Association (CMD) have yet to reach an agreement to increase doctors’ salaries. However, the presidents of the Senate, Reinaldo Pared Perez and the CMD, Dr. Waldo Ariel Suero, assured reporters from Hoy that the process is ongoing and said that they felt that there would be a positive …

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Former Police Commander for Peravia province, General Hilario Gonzalez said that he would file an appeal against the sentence handed down by the Supreme Court that said that the complaint against Senator Wilton Guerrero was unacceptable. The police officer, speaking through his lawyers Candido Simon Polanco and Freddy Calderon, sued for defamation, supported by articles …

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