2000 – Page 96

The Santo Domingo Table Tennis Association (Atemedina) inaugurated a talent school at Minecom, a private company located on Avenida Prolongación 27 de Febrero that has offered the facility. The DR was many years ago a world class ping pong contender, and now the Dominican Table Tennis Federation wants to develop a new crop of athletes, …

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Judge Katia Miguelina Jimenez issued the maximum penalty in her judgment against the four accused of the murder of newsweekly magazine editor and El Nacional newspaper columnist, 31-year old Orlando Martinez in March 1975. Retired general Antonio Pou Castro, Rafael Alfredo Lluberes and Mariano Cabrera Duran and Luis Emilio De la Rosa Beras were sentenced …

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The first tropical storm of the 2000 season formed today, Tropical Storm Alberto was located near latitude 12.4 North. longitude 25.0 West or about 170 miles, 270 kms. South-Southwest of the southernmost Cape Verde Island in Africa. Alberto is moving west at 17 mph or 28 km/hr. Forecasters say the tropical storm could become a …

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Executives of the Dominican Chamber of Construction (Camara Dominicana de Construccion) announced yesterday the coming celebration of the II International Construction Fair. The event is slated for Santo Domingo, 11-15 October at the grounds of the Feria Ganadera. Diego de Moya, president of the organization highlighted, upon making the announcement, that the DR has the …

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Dr. Jose Joaquín Puello told Hoy newspaper that they are counting on receiving a first allotment in September of a US$6 million credit that would be contracted with the Venezuela Investment Fund for the repair and construction of facilities needed for the Pan Am Games in 2003. The loan would be as a result of …

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The Ambassador of Germany in the DR, Eva Alexandra Countess of Kendeffy said that the government of Germany is carrying out 28 development projects with German cooperation for US$200 million. 42 German technicians are at present in the DR working on the projects. In an interview for Hoy newspaper, she mentioned the donations are helping …

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President elect Hipolito Mejia appointed Trajano Santana as director of the Instituto Nacional de Auxilios y Viviendas and Ligia Lereaux as director of the Red Cross.

Judge Modesto Martínez Mejía of the Eighth Penal Chamber sentenced Police corporal Rafael Paredes to 15 years in prison and to pay RD$10 million to the mother of Father Jose Antonio Tineo. The police agent who mistook him for another person shot Father Tineo in his car, causing his death. The National Police sent Paredes …

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In defense of himself, Antonio Pou Castro said that he had saved the life of Hamlet Hermann. Hermann was part of the Playa Caracoles expedition with Francisco Alberto Caamaño. The expedition that landed on a southwestern beach had the intention of relieving the country of the repression of the government of Joaquin Balaguer. He said …

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