2008 – Page 225

The prosecutor’s office for Santo Domingo province has sent three more police officers to jail in connection with the deaths of three minors during an incident on Charles de Gaulle Avenue in Santo Domingo East last week. The officers Major Domingo Diaz Rodriguez, First Lieutenant Nicolas Martinez Martinez and Second Lieutenant Lorenzo Rodriguez Marte will …

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Four men have carried out a raid on the Banco del Progreso located at Plaza Monet on the Mella highway in Santo Domingo East, taking an estimated RD$4 million. Listin Diario reports that the robbery took place at around 2pm yesterday, when two young men entered the bank with weapons drawn and demanded cash while …

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Bravo advertises Red Globe grapes for RD$49.95lb, apples for RD$26.95lb, Motts apple juice for RD$179.95/128oz, black grapes for RD$69.96, Jaja guandules RD$27.95/16oz, beef filet RD$169.95lb, Rib eye for RD$299.95lb, Jumbo has a mother’s day sale its clothing department. Pep Casual Men’s Wear advertises 50% off on men’s shirts at their Plaza Central and Plaza Naco …

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A Clave Noxa-Cies poll shows President Leonel Fernandez of the PLD winning the 16 May election with 54% of the vote. Miguel Vargas of the PRD would come in second with 36% and Amable Aristy of the PRSC would be third with 9%. An earlier poll published by this company on 26 March-3 April showed …

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Central Electoral Board (JCE) president Julio Cesar Castanos Guzman said that all the scanners that will be used to transmit Election Day results to the JCE headquarters electronically will have arrived in the country by Sunday and that a general test of the scanners will be carried out that same day. A total of 740 …

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Guatemalan Manfredo Marroquin, international elections expert and coordinator of Transparency International, says that Dominicans spend an exaggerated amount on their elections. He said that Dominican parties receive the most public funding for their activities in Latin America and the Caribbean. He estimated that the parties receive US$5 per vote, compared to US$2 in Central America. …

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The PRSC has expelled almost 400 party members for supporting President Leonel Fernandez’s candidacy in the 2008 election, as opposed to their own party’s candidate. The PRSC sent a list of 395 expelled members to the Central Electoral Board. The document explains that over a number of years, PRSC members have left the party or …

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Jacques Diouf, Director-General of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), met with President Leonel Fernandez at the Presidential Palace yesterday. Diouf says that the FAO has been working with the Dominican Agriculture and Environment ministries to improve the competitiveness and productivity of farms and fish production. As reported in El Caribe, Diouf says …

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Foreign Relations Minister Carlos Morales Troncoso has welcomed the country’s endorsement by United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, who expressed confidence in the Dominican Republic’s ability to set up a program aimed at solving food shortage problems throughout the Caribbean. Morales Troncoso says that the UN would help the DR through all its agencies. He …

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Public hospital doctors have agreed not to strike or protest until after the May 16 presidential elections, says Dominican Medical Association (CMD) president Waldo Ariel Suero. The doctors have been picketing and striking in pursuit of wage increases and other benefits for several months now. The strikes primarily affect the poorest in the DR, the …

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