2006 – Page 75

El Caribe newspaper is reporting that police and army officials arrested 620 illegal Haitians with fake passports over the weekend, and impounded five vehicles and other items. The operation took place in the northeastern provinces of Mao, Dajabon and Monte Cristi. 15 kilos of cocaine were also found during the joint operation by the National …

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In Andres, Boca Chica, assailants have raided boats tied up at the local docks. Diario Libre says that the lack of constant patrols by the Navy is partly to blame for the robberies. Many of the boats that have been broken into belong to foreigners. The robbers move about in small craft and are armed …

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Dominican Luis Castillo recorded his first interception of the year yesterday as his team, the San Diego Chargers, beat the lowly San Francisco Forty Niners 48-19. Castillo also added a sack, for a season total of four, surpassing his 2005 mark of 3.5, and added a tackle. The 6’3″, 290-pound lineman is quickly becoming one …

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Placido Polanco, Detroit’s diminutive second baseman, has been voted the Most Valuable Player of the American League Championship Series (ALCS). He batted for an average of .529 (9/17) and extended is post-season hitting streak to nine games. In the ninth inning of the fourth and deciding game against the Oakland Athletics, Polanco got a hit …

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Kareng Pena Sanchez, an 18-year old student at Bani’s Maximo Gomez polytechnic institute, has won the 2nd Annual National Math competition, held over the weekend. Pena Sanchez was awarded a RD$50,000 account by BanReservas, a new laptop computer and school supplies. First Lady Margarita Cedeno de Fernandez congratulated the young woman on her success in …

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The meeting between Presidents George W. Bush and Leonel Fernandez announced for later this month, could mark the definitive beginning of the free trade agreement between the two nations. The only pending matter, according to a report in Diario Libre, is the go-ahead from the Untied States on the bills to modify the Law of …

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President Leonel Fernandez expressed the Dominican government’s enthusiasm for the development of reflections about identity and diversity, which are becoming true fundamental principles of human and sustainable development of the countries participating in the II Meeting of Culture Ministers of the Group of African, Caribbean, and Pacific (ACP) States, that opened yesterday at the Universidad …

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President Leonel Fernandez has inaugurated another aqueduct system, this time in the northeastern city of San Francisco de Macoris. The system cost US$84 million and is considered to be one of the most modern aqueduct systems in the country. The system has an expiration period of 20 years, and will provide water to more than …

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The former Administrator of National Properties (Bienes Nacionales) under the Mejia administration, Victor Tio Fernandez, and another four people were sentenced to serve two and a half years in prison after having been found guilty of prevarication and criminal association in the misappropriation of 3,382.8 square meters of land belonging to the state. Tio was …

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Yandra Portela is calling for more fiscal responsibility from the government and says that neither the public nor the private sector can handle more taxes. Portela, president of the Dominican Association of Industries (AIRD) said that the government, instead of focusing on fiscal reform to cover its costs, should cut government spending, seeing that this …

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