2009 – Page 117

A new center for adults with Down Syndrome wil be named ater Dominican baseball player Albert Pujols. St. Luke’s Hospital in Chesterfield, Missouri will open the new center for adult. It will be the first of its kind in Missouri. Pujols has a daughter with Down Syndrome and according to the Miami Herald allocated a …

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Night of Hits with Clayderman and Di Blasio Piano concert with Richard Clayderman and Raul Di Blasio. August 28 and 29. Main Hall Teatro Nacional. A Cesar Suarez production. Tickets: RD$3,000, RD$2,500, RD$1,800 and RD$1,500. For more on upcoming events, see http://www.dr1.com/calendar  

According to the president of the Supreme Court of Justice, Jorge Subero Isa, real estate transactions in the DR rank as third in revenues generated for the government, behind customs and tax departments. He said local taxpayers paid RD$7.9 billion last year on real estate transactions. 50% of the transactions were carried out in the …

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Celso Marranzini, the new vice president of the State-owned Electric Companies (CDEEE), is asking the public to be patient regarding the energy sector. He says he is not Merlin, the magician, to resolve the issues in six days. He explained that he has only been in office for “five long days.” He says decisions will …

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A special commission created to study whether or not five public hospital doctors and two nurses be reinstated after their participation in an attack against the director of the Francisco Moscoso Puello Hospital says it is recommending that the doctors be sanctioned, but that the hospital’s director also be sanctioned and moved to another hospital. …

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The National Education Council, after a meeting with the Ministry of Education, has lifted sanctions on 835 students who were accused of cheating on last school year’s national standardized tests. The students had been penalized with a ban on registering for college for a year. They were accused of receiving the answers to the tests …

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The Penal Chamber of the Court of Appeals will study a petition to revoke a court order returning the Cessna plane to its owner Rafael Alberto Pichardo Corominas, son of the vice president of the Supreme Court of Justice, Rafael Luciano Pichardo, according to Diario Libre. The Department of Customs seeks to revoke Resolution No. …

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One person is dead and one police officer is injured after an attempted robbery turned bloody. Listin Diario writes that the police were present when three men tried to rob a man in a SUV, off Acropolis Mall at Winston Churchill Avenue. Listin explains that a man driving a 1996 Toyota Corolla slammed into the …

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The DR will play Brazil this afternoon at 4pm at the Coliseo Roberto Clemente in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on the opening day of the 2009 FIBA Americas Championship. Brazil is the winner of the Marchand Continental Championship Cup. The event is taking place from 26 August to 6 September. This is the strongest Dominican …

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Starting at 2pm on Saturday, 29 August and Sunday, 30 August, some of the better known merengue and Latin music performers will take the stage for a Mega Concert with the backdrop of the Monumento de Santiago. This is part of the program underway for Verano Presidente, promoted by Presidente Beer. On Saturday, 29 August: …

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