2008 – Page 132

The authorities from the San Felipe Power Station denied that their generators are causing the air pollution that is affecting the nearby Costambar enclave. In a paid announcement in most of today’s newspapers, the San Felipe officials say that they work with the Ministry of the Environment to preserve the local ecology. The business says …

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Migration at the Las Americas International Airport has detected 2,631 persons that attempted to leave the country with false documents over the past seven months. Of these, 1,023 were women between the ages of 22 and 40, and the rest were men between the ages of 29 and 50, including several deportees from the United …

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Water and electricity services are being rationed in the nation’s second city, Santiago de los Caballeros. Reporters are calling the situation “critical” due to the widespread cuts in service by the Water and Sewer Corporation (Coraasan) and by the Energy Distributor of the North (EdeNorte). Thousands of users are screaming every time the tap is …

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The president of the PRD party, Ramon Alburquerque asks why the Supreme Court of Justice doesn’t do what it preaches and convene judges to rule on the Sun Land case. A decision is pending in the Supreme Court on the legality of the US$110 million borrowed in name of the government without congressional approval. The …

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The president of the National Drug Control Department (DNCD), General Rafael Ramirez Ferreira is in favor of a Caribbean Plan, similar to the well known Plan Colombia or Merida Initiative that bring US resources to aid Colombia and Mexican authorities fight against the country’s powerful drug cartels and organized crime networks. Ramirez Ferreira said that …

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A Lieutenant Colonel (called a frigate captain in Navy parlance) was arrested by two low-ranking members of the National Police and members of the Naval Intelligence Office (M-2) with eight packages of cocaine. The officer was identified as Ricardo Guzman Perez, who was accompanied at the moment of his arrest by his wife, Scarlet Aristy …

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Dominican boxer Juan Carlos Payano fighting in the Flyweight Class (51kg/112lbs) moved up defeating Frenchman Jerome Thomas in a 10-6 decision by points. Thomas was high-rated as he was the silver medallist at the Athens Olympics. Ironically, in Athens, Payano had lost to Thomas. Payano is a Pan American silver medallist and the country’s highest …

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Senator Wilton Guerrero (PLD-Peravia) has been voicing his concerns about alleged complicity between drug traffickers and officials for four years and until now rarely has anyone listened. Guerrero says that accompanied by civic society members of his province, he met with officials on several occasions but nothing was ever done. As a result of last …

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The commission created by President Leonel Fernandez to investigate the drug-related massacre of seven men in Bani met yesterday and interrogated Senator Wilton Guerrero, Deputies Licelotte Arias and Milciades Franjul as well as Police General Hilario Gonzalez, Mayor Nelson Camilo Landestoy, provincial Governor Bienvenido Montero, District Attorney Roberto Lugo and state prosecutor Miguel Mejia. No …

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Presidential legal advisor Cesar Pina Toribio says that no government official has direct or indirect connections to drug trafficking. Pina Toribio says he is supporting the government’s decision to tackle the issue more vigorously. Pina Toribio says that President Leonel Fernandez’s government has increased its drug fighting efforts. Pina Toribio is contradicting Senator Wilton Guerrero’s …

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