2006 – Page 17

Dominican-born Jose Espinal has scored his first goals for the Italian soccer team Novara from the Italian C1 division. Espinal, who had previously played with division A team Atalanta and Samremese, had played well for the team, but so far failed to score a goal. Espinal scored in the 37th minute and then again in …

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Though the “Safe Christmas” plan was launched on Sunday it has been reported that there has been little to no change in the number of police officers patrolling the target areas in and around Santo Domingo. Reports indicate that the delay in placing officers is due to a lack of coordination. Each year the police …

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Interior and Police Chief Franklyn Almeyda has warned PLD officials that the PLD Political Committee will punish any PLD member who votes against the fiscal reform. Almeyda, speaking in Hoy newspaper, said that during the party’s last meeting the 22 members present agreed unanimously in favor of the fiscal reform. Almeyda says that the Committee …

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There were no games last night, but El Caribe newspaper reports that Major League Baseball is considering holding a few exhibition games here in 2007. Major league teams have played in the DR before, to sell-out crowds in 1997 and 1999, and it comes as part of an effort by Major League baseball to expand …

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According to Tourism Minister Felix Jimenez, the government has spent three million dollars on the reconstruction of Cabarete’s beach. A total of 280,000 cubic meters of new sand was dumped on the beach, and the 2.5-kilometer stretch can now handle as many as 100,000 beachgoers at one time. Funding for the project, which includes Puerto …

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Foreign Minister Carlos Morales Troncoso announced on Friday that the Dominican Republic “doesn’t have anything to hide”, and invited the visiting mission of US congressional leaders to look at the situation of Haitian immigrants in the Dominican Republic. He added that they should also worry about approving initiatives in the United States aimed at improving …

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The mission of Democratic congressmen from the United States House of Representatives visited a few of the sugar cane worker settlements, known as “bateyes” and declared that the Dominican government had been negligent about the living conditions of the people living there. The legislators visited the bateyes of La Paloma and Cayacoa in San Pedro …

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The chief of the visiting US congressional mission, Eliot Engel brought up the fact that many of the Dominican “consuls” in the US are actually United States residents, which disqualifies them from legitimately representing the Dominican Republic in consular functions. Listin Diario editorial today also criticizes what over the years has become a common government …

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Chief of Police, Major General Bernardo Santana Paez told 5,000 of his men to work to make this a safe Christmas for the average citizen. In announcing the “Safe Christmas 2006” program, the general said that mixed units from the police and the armed forces would be patrolling the streets 24 hours a day. Their …

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The new Profesor Juan Bosch trauma hospital, located on the Duarte Highway between La Vega and Bonao has had a busy two months since opening its doors. According to a story in El Nacional, Dr. Felix Hernandez, the director, reports that 108 surgical procedures have been performed, 2,150 outpatients were treated and 1,434 images were …

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