2005 – Page 256

The Dominican Republic was eliminated from the finals of the Caribbean World Series taking place in Mexico. The Aguilas had a bad start, losing the first two games after not making it in time to play the first game because of a mess up on the flight connection. The Mexican team appears to be unbeatable …

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CNN reported the accident. Yesterday a private plane carrying 20 passengers came off the runway at Teterboro Airport in New Jersey and caught fire. Several people were taken to the hospital, including the pilot and co-pilot. The Bombardier Canadian Challenger CL-600 skidded off the runway, hit two vehicles and crashed into a warehouse across the …

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Tow trucks from the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (AMET) are hauling away an average of 160 cars a day in Santo Domingo alone. The vehicles are being taken to the old dog-racing track at El Coco. Last Wednesday was a slow day and only 111 cars entered the compound. According to El Caribe, the daily average …

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Two photo-journalists, Adriano Rosario and Joel Alcantara, who work for the Listin Diario and El Caribe newspapers, were victims of verbal and physical attacks by AMET agents yesterday. They were covering the protest by car and motorcycle drivers against AMET’s policy of towing or hauling away defective vehicles, and those belonging to people without driving …

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The authorities are searching for a well-known businessman from Barahona in connection with the case of accused drug smuggler Quirino Paulino Castillo, as reported in yesterday’s DR1 news. The case involving 1,387 kilograms of cocaine has brought the name of Ernesto Bienvenido Guevara Diaz, alias “Maconi”, to the forefront of the investigation. National District prosecutor …

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Sources have given DR1 a first look at an important survey of pending actions by the Dominican Justice System. It is not at all nice, and it brings into question the ability of the system to administer justice. For example, there are 175 cases dealing with Constitutional issues currently on the Supreme Court books. These …

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All the telephone companies round off the first minute of your calls: whether you talk for just five seconds or forty seconds, you still pay for that full minute. According to the technical explanations given to Listin Diario reporter Jairon Severino, this happens because the technological platform that is used by the phone companies is …

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The Central Bank accepted bids for US$36.04 million dollars in certificates at an average interest rate of 10.61%. The bank rejected bids for another US$28 million. In total, the bank had offered as much as US$100 million in certificates, but it received purchase offers of just 56.3% of the total. The bank rejected bids that …

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The Dominican alphabet soup of institutions has the Dominican Municipal League (LMD) telling the Santo Domingo National District council (DN) that it has distributed the funding it obtained according to the 2002 Census. As reported in yesterday’s news, Santo Domingo mayor Roberto Salcedo told Hoy reporters that he is still owed RSD$78 million by the …

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The government plan to get food to needy families will go into action at the beginning of next week in Santo Domingo’s “24 April” neighborhood. In this pilot, a total of 1,166 families will each receive a RD$550 subsidy to designed to alleviate extreme poverty. Other families who live in the poor neighborhoods along the …

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