2007 – Page 310

Dominican singer/composer Juan Luis Guerra’s music video for his latest song “La llave de mi corazon,” has its first screening on Dominican television this evening. The premiere will be at 8pm and the video will be shown on channels 2, 5, 7, 9, 11 and channel 10 on Telecable.

DR baseball champions the Aguilas Cibaenas are about to embark on a quest to bring back the Caribbean Series championship to the Dominican Republic. They will be competing against current champions Venezuela and archrivals Puerto Rico, as well as Mexico in the series that starts in San Juan, Puerto Rico tomorrow. Big leaguers Miguel Tejada …

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After the latest Government Cabinet meeting at the Presidential Palace, Agriculture Minister Salvador Jimenez announced a new massive government-backed program to sow 1.6 million tareas (100,000 hectares) of basic food crops during the first quarter of 2007. The minister said that the government would pour RD$125 million into the project to guarantee a solid supply …

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Visitors to the Presidential Palace will be greeted with a new spectacle: the newly created Ceremonial Battalion. The troops have new uniforms and are on parade at the front gate of the palace. The chief of the Presidential Guard, Pedro Caceres Chestaro officially placed the group on station. The new unit was organized to attract …

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The former administration of the CDEEE (the Dominican Corporation of State-owned Electricity Enterprises) awarded the Puerto Plata Electric Company (CEPP) a twelve-year contract for 50 megawatts of power, under the Madrid Accord, as payment for the final two years of a former contract. According to a report by the Renegotiating Commission carried in today’s Diario …

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The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (AMET) has announced the first trials of the new Breathalyzers recently purchased to enforce the decrees aimed at stopping drunk driving. The government has purchased 1,200 of the units. AMET said that they would begin the trials across the country next week.

As part of the recent Central Electoral Board (JCE) reorganization, new wedding fees have been set for foreigners. The higher fees appear to be aimed at offsetting the lower fees for foreign residents and Dominicans. But the decision could prove a blow to the country’s booming wedding tourism industry. The highly competitive wedding tourism business …

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Dominican Foreign Minister Carlos Morales Troncoso has told reporters that he believes the figure of one million Haitians with fake Dominican papers to be, in his words, “conservative”. According to Hoy, the minister expressed confidence in the great job that the Central Electoral Board (JCE) was doing in supervising and controlling Civil Registry offices around …

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Members of the Catholic Church hierarchy have submitted a proposal for an amendment to the Dominican Constitution that would define Dominican identity. The council, according to Hoy, was emphatic in asking that the means of acquiring Dominican citizenship needs to be defined once and for all. The 31 paragraphs of the document propose that the …

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The Chamber of Deputies is poised to reject a bill that seeks to establish that children between the ages of 16 and 18 can be tried as adults in a court of law. Teodoro Reyes (PLD) submitted the bill to the Chamber citing the increase in juvenile crimes as his motivation. Opponents of the measure …

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