2005 – Page 67

The Migration Department has suspended and indicted the director of the Investigations Department and the official responsible for the Consular Section, and adopted strict controls to allow all people connected to municipalities to leave the country on official passports. Diario Libre reports that Migration Director Carlos Amarante Baret announced that his department was working with …

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This weekend, the government will hold a seminar to analyze the great challenges faced by the nation and solutions to the economic situation. President Leonel Fernandez will be present throughout the seminar. The meeting – to which 300 businesspeople and 200 representatives of civil society have been invited – will seek formulas to resolve the …

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The current government has invested approximately RD$898 million in the refurbishment and equipping of hospitals, as well as in the construction of new health centers around the country, according to Health Minister Bautista Rojas Gomez, Listin Diario reports. As an example, more than RD$200 million worth of equipment, medical supplies, and refurbishment has been provided …

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Five persons who traveled out of the DR using official passports obtained fraudulently visited the Dominican Consulate in Genoa, Italy, seeking information for the issue of new documentation. Consul Mercedes Brito confirmed that one of them asked to be returned to the DR, according to Diario Libre. False councilman Felix Julian Estrella, who paid RD$100,000 …

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The Senate and the Chamber of Deputies have formed a bicameral commission to study bills pertaining to the incentives for development of renewable energy sources and their special conditions. A report in Diario Libre says that the presidents of the Energy Commissions of both chambers, Angel Dignocrates Perez and Rafael Librado Castillo, assured that those …

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The Punta Cana Group is insisting that land occupied by a company, which has among its shareholders the current District Attorney, was never turned over voluntarily nor were they part of payment of honorarium to a law firm, according to the terms of the contract signed with the Hernandez Peguero legal office. According to Listin …

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Over the last few days, Santiago police have arrested and indicted 14 couples caught having intercourse in parks and other public areas, according to Diario Libre. Santiago police spokesman Jesus Cordero Paredes, said that some of the detainees were Dominican and Haitian women who were practicing prostitution in the Plaza Valerio park and on the …

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Members of the operative intelligence division of the National Drug Control Department (DNCD) have seized 108 kilos of cocaine inside a vehicle left abandoned at a shopping center parking lot in Santo Domingo. DNCD spokesman Buenaventura Bueno Torres said that the drug was found thanks to the department’s intelligence work, with the assistance of the …

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Approximately 1,538 foreigners are detained in different prisons in the DR accused of a range of felonies, El Caribe reports. Most foreigners have been arrested in airports and ports carrying drugs as “mules” according to the Attorney General. European countries with the highest number of detainees are The Netherlands, with 45, followed by Spain, 26, …

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US authorities deported 80 Dominicans yesterday, after completing their terms in different US prisons, most of them related to narcotics, according to a report in El Caribe. The deportees arrived at Las Americas International Airport on an airplane in the custody of the US Justice Department. They were taken to the Police Department and the …

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