2007 – Page 258

During a meeting by poultry farmers it was announced that a miscalculation lead to an increased production of chicken this year. Farmers produced 845,000 extra chickens, each weighing 4 pounds, and now the government will buy the extra chickens for a cost of RD$45.9 million (RD$55.00) in order to avoid a collapse of the sector. …

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Ten youth gangs from the Buenos Aires and Canada de Guajimia sectors have handed over their weapons. Among the weapons that the youths had were 4 rifles, 4 revolvers, 2 pistols, 50 machetes, 3 knives, 25 chilenas (hand made weapons), and 25 rifle cartridges. The gang leaders, according to Julio Espinosa, head of the Movimiento …

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The table tennis doubles team of Luis Lin Ju and Nieves Xue Wu won the mixed doubles championships at the XVII Latin American Table Tennis Championships which were held in Brazil. The Dominican team beat the Cuban team with a final score of 11-6, 11-6, 11-8. On the way to the championship, the pair beat …

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Despite not having played in an official international match this year, Dominican soccer received some great news from FIFA, soccer’s governing body. The Dominican Republic will now be ranked 135th in the world rankings ahead of El Salvador (138) Vietnam (139) Indonesia (146) and India (165), countries in which soccer is extremely popular. The news …

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The Casandra Awards, that honor the best in show business in the DR, will be presented tonight at the National Theater. The ceremonies begin at 7pm with the red carpet parade. The awards ceremony begins at 8pm and will be televised on Telecentro (channel 13) in the DR and in the United States through Caribe …

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President Leonel Fernandez announced on Sunday his intention to seek the PLD presidential candidacy in the 2008 election. At an event held at the Palacio de los Deportes, President Fernandez said that it is not yet time for him to hand in the torch he received from late political caudillos Juan Bosch and Joaquin Balaguer, …

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The Executive Branch sent a US$81.3 million loan bill to Congress. The money would be used to finance a hydroelectric power plant at the Palomino dam located in Bohechio, San Juan de la Maguana, in the southwest. The dam will utilize the waters of the Yaque del Sur and Blanco rivers. A 22 hectare reservoir …

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The government has sent Congress a bill for a a US$40 million letter of credit for the companies that are to construct the two coal-fired generation stations in the Dominican Republic. One station is would be built built in Azua in the Southwest and the other one in Manzanillo, in the Northwest. The letter of …

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Pope Benedict XVI has invited the chief magistrate of the Central Electoral Board (JCE), Julio Cesar Castanos Guzman to attend the V General Episcopal Conference of Latin American and Caribbean Bishops. The conference will be celebrated in Apreciada, Brazil in May. The invitation comes from the Pontifical Commission for Latin America, and points out that …

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Minister of the Interior and of the Police, Franklin Almeyda, told reporters in Puerto Plata that he favored a “loosening” of the curfew laws that govern the hours of serving alcoholic beverages in the Dominican Republic. He made the comment having in mind the tourist areas of Sosua and Cabarete in Puerto Plata where bar …

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