2005 – Page 225

Listin Diario reports that the Police, accompanied by the National Drug Control Department (DNCD) opened a safety box and found US$2.5 million in cash, property titles, a forged passport in the name of Luis Anibal Rodriguez, with the photograph of Luis Eduardo Rodriguez Cordero (Eduardito), who had contracted the box from a private security company. …

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Enrique Penalosa, former mayor of Bogota, who visited for the Santo Domingo 2015 Congress, told El Caribe that the city of Santo Domingo needs parks, wide sidewalks, walkways, more cafes in public spaces, more attention to its poor barrios, bicycle routes all around and more trees. “The tourists are not going to come to go …

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Enrique Penalosa called for the carrying out of a world architecture contest inviting the best urban architects and backed by renown universities, even if this cost US$500-US$1 million, prior to making major decisions regarding the construction of an artificial island in the front of Santo Domingo. He said these could look into alternative proposals such …

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Meanwhile, architect Kalil Michel Prebost, deputy minister of Public Works, announced the government was proceeding with the project for the development of the Sans Souci/Malecon area. The project contemplates the demolition of the Parque Maria Eugenio de Hostos to build two high-rise hotels, the construction of a shopping mall where the cruise ship terminal of …

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Seventy-six year old Andres Dauhajre, founder of the Novia de Villa store on corner of Roberto Pastoriza and Lope de Vega surprisingly died yesterday of a heart attack. He was president of the National Association of Importers, and father of controversial economist Andy Dauhajre, mastermind of the sovereign bonds during the Mejia government.  

City Mayor Roberto Salcedo inaugurated the Congress of Santo Domingo 2015 yesterday, an event that seeks to establish a vision for the capital city into the next 10 years. In his inaugural words, the Mayor spoke about how the Congress seeks to help them develop the Strategic Plan Santo Domingo 2015 as a tool to …

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Contrary to the stand of the Santo Domingo Mayor in his opening words, the first guest speaker, Enrique Penalosa had strong words against the construction of the proposed metro and the island promoted by the Fernandez government as the solution to modernize Santo Domingo. Enrique Penalosa, award-winning former mayor of Bogota and candidate to the …

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The first guest speaker invited by the City of Santo Domingo to its Santo Domingo 2015 Congress, Enrique Penalosa turned his talk into an ode for turning Santo Domingo into a walking city with parks and public spaces. “While today it is normal to give preference to cars in a city, in the future we …

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The plenary of the Supreme Court of Justice declared unconstitutional the controversial Law of Primaries. If upheld, this law would have required the Central Electoral Board (JCE), the government body that organizes elections, to also fund and organize the primaries to elect the city councilors, city mayors and legislators in the 2006 election. The JCE …

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The Chamber of Deputies upheld the opinion of the Supreme Court that Radhames Ramos Garcia (PRD-La Vega) should fulfill his sentence of 18 months in jail for smuggling Chinese across the border with Haiti. Ramos had been sentenced prior to being sworn in, but was able to avoid jail due to the immunity accorded him …

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