Dolores Vicioso – Page 8167

A microbiologist was able to revive a bacteria that was dormant for more than 25 million years in the stomach of a bee encapsulated in a piece of amber found in the Dominican Republic. The event is described in the “Discover” magazine of January 1996, and is mentioned among the 100 most outstanding scientific achievements …

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Five years after the Dominican Republic reported its last case of polio and the Pan American health Organization declared the country polio-free, several other illnesses seem to be on the road to eradication. The Ministry of Health says that measles, neonatal tetanus and whooping-cough have also entered into the process of elimination. In 1995 no …

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The city council of Santo Domingo is prosecuting the coordinator of the Oficina Supervisora y Fiscalizadora de Obras del Estado, engineer Bienvenido Martínez Brea and six other people, including its architect and contractor, Roberto Bergés, dean of architecture of the Universidad Pedro Henríquez Ureña, who are involved in the construction of a geriatric hospital on …

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Police Chief Antonio Segundo Imbert Tesson handed over 1,142 firearms that were confiscated from people not authorized to carry them. Another 109 weapons were handed in as part of the goods for arms program promoted by the Catholic Church of Santo Domingo and Dominican businessman Fernando Mateo. The Goods for Arms program took place during …

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An agreement was finally reached between the University Council of the Universidad Autonoma de Santo Domingo (UASD) and the professors and lecturers which will allow classes to begin at the end of January after registration is completed. The professors, who had been on strike in protest against the failure of the university to pay their …

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The General Administrator of the Corporacion Dominicana de Electricidad (CDE) has announced that the state-owned electricity company will soon begin a scheme to check some 300,000 meters throughout the country in order to determine whether customers are being over or undercharged for electricity. It is widely recognized that the CDE loses much of its electricity …

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Pascual “Cuta” Perez, one of the most colorful yet controversial Dominican baseball players of the 1980’s and early 90’s, made a modest return to professional baseball last week with the Tigres del Licey. He pitched two scoreless innings against the Leones del Escogido during the “Round Robin” play-off between Licey, Escogido, the Estrellas Orientales and …

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