2006 – Page 97

David “Big Papi” Ortiz, the Boston Red Sox superstar, has matched Babe Ruth’s American League record for homeruns hit on the road. He hit number 32 against the Toronto Blue Jays last night. Babe Ruth hit 32 in the classic 1927 season. Ortiz still has one more game to play on the road, tonight again …

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President Leonel Fernandez met with Saudi Arabia ambassador to the United States, Prince Turki Al-Faisal, at the New York Palace Hotel yesterday to discuss the practicalities of building a petroleum refinery that would benefit the country and investors wanting to refine crude oil close to the United States market. Diario Libre reports that the refinery …

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The deputy director for Customs Intelligence, Rafael Jimenez, has announced that the customs office will implement the same technology in all Dominican ports that recently helped discover a 2,582-kilo shipment of illegal narcotics through the Multimodal Caucedo port. The American donated x-ray machine, valued at US$ 2 million, is part of the Container Security Initiative, …

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The National Council of Higher Education has approved the reclassification of the Las Americas Technological Institute (ITLA) as a Higher Education Technological Institute. On 18 July, the Council approved the opening of the Stevens Institute of Technology International (SITT) in accordance with standing Dominican legislation. ITLA becomes this new institute and will begin operating with …

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The District Attorney for Santo Domingo and the Attorney General have announced the closure of an alleged brothel that was selling the services of young women aged 18 to 24, as well as the closure of 14 internet cafes that supposedly allowed the downloading of child pornography. The Department for the Illegal Transport of Migrants …

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The minority deputy bloc of the PRSC has refused the Icasur contract on the grounds that it would not be beneficial for the government and the Dominican public. Icasur was bidding to manage vehicle revisions, but the PRSC representatives claim that the contract is onerous and would be burdensome for the country. Listin Diario quotes …

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The National Department for Drug Control (DNCD) has announced that they are raising the salaries of their special operations officers to reduce corruption on the job. Robert Lebron, spokesperson for the DNCD, announced the raises are effective this month, according ot a report in El Caribe. More raises would be forthcoming as funding to the …

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Hundreds of public officials will not collect their paychecks this Monday after yesterday’s five o’clock deadline for submitting their sworn asset statements. This was announced by the Director of the Department for the Prevention of Administrative Corruption (DPCA) Octavio Lister, who specified that 1,023 officials had made their statements out of a total of 1,500 …

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The power generating companies have been answering some of the questions posed by the Administrator of the Dominican Corporation of State-Owned Electrical Companies (CDEEE), Radhames Segura, and stated that the generators are out of service due to damage on the 69,000-Volt transmission line. Diario Libre reports that separate releases by AES Dominicana, which manages the …

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The Colombian ambassador in the Dominican Republic, Jorge Enrique Garavito Duran, and the Technical Deputy Minister for International Cooperation, America Bastidas, have signed the first agreement for technical, educational and cultural cooperation between the two nations, through which more than 20 projects will be implemented. Representatives from both countries highlighted the importance of sharing experiences …

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