2006 – Page 70

Speaking at the Presidential Palace yesterday, First Lady Margarita Cedeno de Fernandez launched a preventive campaign against breast cancer. She announced that underprivileged women will be able to receive free breast examinations by simply calling the governments free *462 hotline and making an appointment. The examinations will take place at the Presidential Police and Armed …

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PRD Presidential pre-candidate Milagros Ortiz Bosch has responded to ex-President Hipolito Mejia’s comments that if the PRD presidential candidate elections were held today Miguel Vargas Maldonado would beat Ortiz by a vote of 80% to 20%. Ortiz says that if that’s what he believes then he has lost his political instincts. Ortiz is quoted in …

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Former government official Pedro Franco Badia says that he is a victim of human rights persecution and will bring his case to the Inter-American Human Rights Court in San Jose, Costa Rica. Franco Badia says that he has sufficient grounds to declare himself politically persecuted by the government and that the case against him and …

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According to Verizon Dominicana’s vice president of Communications Eduardo Valcarcel, negotiations with America Movil are stalled because of the technical and legal dispute with the Tax Department (DGII). He explained that it would be very difficult for the transaction to be completed this year, as reported by Listin Diario. The problem is that the tax …

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The Department of Customs has announced that it will be awarding severance payments to its dismissed employees. Customs, like most Dominican government departments, has an excess of employees, primarily due to the practice of political patronage. There are approximately 5,000 employees on the Customs payroll. The Department of Customs’ decision sets a new precedent for …

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El Caribe newspaper says that National Drug Council Department (DNCD) is reporting that drug dealer Elsa Grullon died in a Santiago hospital after having ingested large quantities of drugs while police conducted a raid on her home, which was a drug sales spot. Grullon swallowed the drugs so that they would not be found in …

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The Navy has intercepted the operation of 63 illegal boat trips to Puerto Rico over the last two months, arresting 824 Dominican, Cuban, Ecuadorian, Haitian and Canadian nationals. Naval intelligence division M-2 estimates that an average of 13 people per day tried to leave the country on fragile boats to Puerto Rico between 16 August …

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Diario Libre’s popular comic strip Boquechivo & Diogenes is celebrating its 10th anniversary today. The satirical strip comments on daily issues of Dominican life from sport to politics and everything in between. Cartoonist and writer Harold Priego created the cartoon 10 years ago. To mark the occasion, today’s Diario Libre has a spoof front page …

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Andy Garcia, Carmen Maura, Gael Garcia Bernal and Luis Llosa will attend the new version of the Dominican Republic Global Film Festival from the 8th to the 12th of November, which is being organized by the Global Foundation for Democracy and Development (GFDD). The festival aims to awaken greater awareness and better understanding at the …

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Do not miss “Merengues en Reservas”, this coming Friday, 20 October, part of Banco Reservas’ 65th anniversary celebrations. The performance will take place at 8:00pm in the Torre Banreservas parking area, on Ave. Winston Churchill, at the intersection with Calle Porfirio Herrera. That evening, classic merengue tunes by Francis Santana, Joseito Mateo, Vinicio Franco and …

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