2005 – Page 232

The Listin Diario publishes today a front-page photograph of former President Hipolito Mejia and Bladimir Andres Garcia Jimenez. Garcia is accused by the US Drug Enforcement Administration of being a close associate of arrested Quirino Paulino Castillo, accused in the DR of a 1,3870-kilo cocaine shipment, and in a New York court of of drug …

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Former Minister of Agriculture and head of the PPH re-electionist movement that tried to get a second term for Hipolito Mejia, Eligio Jaquez is said to be the real owner of the greenhouses assigned to his brother. Depreco, the government Department for the Prevention of Corruption, reports that its investigations show that former government officials …

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The commission appointed by President Leonel Fernandez to look into the causes of the riots and fire that resulted in more than 130 deaths in the Higuey Regional Prison, established that a dispute for the control of drug distribution within the prison was the root cause of the tragedy. In a press note sent from …

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One of the youths that fell unconscious after taking part in a contest to see who could consume the most tequila is the son of the chief of the army. 24-year old Jose Ricardo Estrella Erazo is son of General Jose Ricardo Estrella Fernandez. A first lieutenant in the Army, Estrella is interned at the …

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The Dominican-Chinese mixed doubles team, Lin Ju and Jennifer Lian won gold in the 15th Latin American Table Tennis Tournament at Maldonado, Uruguay. They defeated Latin America’s highest-ranked team from Brazil. This is the first time the DR wins gold in mixed doubles. In 1978, during the first Latin American Table Tennis Championship held in …

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President Leonel Fernandez was scheduled to arrive this morning to Madrid for the final stretch of his 10-day trip abroad that has taken him to Chicago, New York City and Boston in the United States. He is traveling with his wife, Margarita Cedeno and minister sans portfolio in charge of Dominicans abroad affairs, architect Eduardo …

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From Madrid, President Fernandez instructed that the government cover the burial costs of the victims of the Higuey jail fire and that the government express its sympathy to the relatives of the victims. The fire broke out around midnight of Sunday, 6 March. The authorities are documenting from survivors what occurred, but the situation just …

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According to the Central Bank, the Fernandez government has reduced 7,628 jobs from its administration between September and December 2004. The report on the Dominican economy released yesterday by the Central Bank, as reported in Diario Libre, shows that the number of employees on the government payroll declined from 320,558 in September 2004 to 314,190 …

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The Dominica Association of Travel Agencies and Tourism (ADAVI) again appeals to the government to reconsider the high taxes and high airport and security charges levied on fares to and from the Dominican Republic. ADAVI vice president Edison Urena says that there are times when the fare is more than 50% of the cost of …

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Ciudad Mar promoters, Gustavo More and Pedro Borrell and Elogio Santaella met with Santo Domingo Mayor Roberto Salcedo yesterday. The promoters are requesting city permission to build an artificial island facing the mid section of the Santo Domingo Malecon. The promoters say they have also requested the Ministry of Environment permit. The 3.8 km artificial …

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