2008 – Page 69

The gang that holed up in a house in the Tres Ojos section of Santo Domingo East had killed five people, including businessman Julio Polanco, on the night of 23 August on Padre Castellanos Avenue. Polanco was robbed of RD$25,000 and US$300 in cash. Three of the gang members are registered in police files with …

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Normally, news of this type seems to come from Bolivia or some other mountainous area, but today it comes from Puerto Plata, where a bus loaded with families out for a Sunday swim went off a bridge, killing two and injuring almost 60. The accident occurred in the community of La China on the highway …

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Of the traffic accidents that are registered in the country, motorcycles account for 80% of the total number of the patients at the Trauma Hospital in La Vega, and 63% of the patients at the Dario Contreras Hospital in Santo Domingo. Doctors Hector Quezada and Felix Hernandez called the situation very worrisome. Quezada said that …

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The extremely popular “dish of the day” served in cafeterias and roadside food stalls known as “fondas,” all over Santo Domingo are getting more expensive due to increases in the price of their ingredients. Most of these little businesses selling food, in some cases with home delivery, say that they have been obliged to increase …

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The Tampa Bay Rays, with a homerun by Dominican Willy Aybar and seven dominating innings of pitching by starter Matt Garza beat the Boston Red Sox 3-1 in the seventh and deciding game of the American League Championship Playoffs and win their tickets to the “Fall Classic.” This time there was no collapse by the …

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The Santo Domingo Port of Sans Souci will be hosting Tecdo 2008, which is being touted as the most important regional technology exhibition ever. The exhibition will showcase communications, software development, electronic consumer and audio visual products, renewable energy sources, and biotechnology. The event is organized by the Santo Domingo CyberPark (PCSD). The event opens …

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Representatives from the Taiwanese company Motech Industries will be in the DR between the 22 and 24 of October to discuss potential investment opportunities in the area of alternative energy, especially solar power. Motech was ranked sixth in the world in solar cell production in 2007. Chu-liang Chang and Ken-ti Hu will work with the …

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Dominican Exporters’ Association (ADOPEX) president Ricardo Koenig says that products like rum, tobacco and bananas will enter the European markets with ease following the signing of the European Partnership Agreement between the DR, Caricom and the European Union in Barbados this week. The agreement still needs to be ratified by Congress. Koenig explained the rules …

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The Ministry of Environment has ordered all block or concrete constructions recently built on Saona Island in the National Park of the East to be demolished, as reported in Clave newspaper this week. Saona, a 112km2 island, receives 400,000 visitors a year and has a population of just 180 inhabitants. Only wooden structures are permitted. …

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General Prosecutor Ramon Jimenez Pena chose to avoid speaking to the press and instead issued a press release explaining why he authorized an assistant prosecutor to issue a no-objection statement in response to a petition from former Bancredito bankers Arturo Pellerano and Felipe Mendoza’s defense lawyers for dropping a General Prosecutor’s Office case against them. …

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