2009 – Page 104

Leocadio Franklin Mejia Puello, the man who shot leading PLD politician Cheche Luna, has been sent to jail on preventive custody for three months. Mejia is accused of shooting Rafael Antonio Luna, a.k.a. Cheche, in the chest after a heated argument at a colmado in Gazcue earlier this week. Judge Alejandro Vargas, who is in …

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During the next 24 hours residents of Monte Plata, San Pedro de Macoris, Hato Mayor, Duarte, San Juan de la Maguana, Santiago, Dajabon, Elias Pina, Azua and San Cristobal, should expect rains and thunderstorms, which are forecast to begin during the early afternoon hours on Wednesday. The National Meteorology Office (ONAMET) is tracking a storm …

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Pedro Martinez. Pedro Martinez has found the fountain of youth, but the question now is, does he have enough juice left to push the Philadelphia Phillies to another World Series championship? Martinez finished off his career with the New York Mets as a future Hall of Famer, but had been plagued with injuries, which limited …

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Symphony Foundation and the British Chamber of Commerce in the Dominican Republic bring Caledon – Scotland’s Tenors to Dominican audiences on 16, 17, 18 September. The threesome will be in Santo Domingo for three performances at the Palace of Fine Arts (Bellas Artes) at 8:30pm. The powerful tenor voices of Alan Beck, Jamie MacDougall and …

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Foreign Minister Carlos Morales Troncoso arrived in Moscow on a four-day diplomatic mission yesterday. The mission is expected to lead to the signing of cooperation agreements between both nations, as well as creating stronger ties between Russia and the DR. Listin Diario reports that Morales Troncoso was greeted by Russian Latin America Department sub-director Victor …

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The DR jumped up three spots in the World Economic Forum’s Global Competitiveness Report 2009-2010, going from 98th on the list to 95th of 133 countries. The news was announced by Andres Van der Horst Alvarez, who is the director of the National Competitiveness Council. Van der Horst said that of the 12 pillars of …

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Despite the fact that Santiago is a smaller city than Santo Domingo, it has not escaped the practice of creating special payrolls for making so-called extracurricular payments and including non-essential personnel on the payroll. An audit by the Chamber of Accounts (CC), which examined a two-year period, revealed that Mayor Jose Enrique Sued’s administration had …

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Senate president Reinaldo Pared Perez announced the dismissal of 23 workers who are related to senators, in response to an investigative report by TV journalist Alicia Ortega. Pared announced that dismissals of family members on the public payroll would continue. The move to fire these family members was made after it was revealed that many …

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A survey carried out four years ago by graduate students Alvaro Belmar, Enilda Garcia and Maria Diaz Solis and only now being circulated, shows just how poor many students at the state university are. Although Internet and phone connectivity has become a fixture in many Dominican homes over the last 10 years, these basic telecommunications …

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In 2008 there were a total of 198 deaths on the nations highways, and through September 2009 a total of 363 people were killed. August was the deadliest month with 179 total deaths. Between January and July a total of 184 people were killed on these highways with the Duarte Highway being the most dangerous, …

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