2009 – Page 131

Tonight could be a night to remember by baseball fans. Pedro Martinez, a sure first ballot Hall of Famer, will step on the mound for what could be his last hurrah as a baseball player. Martinez is pitching with his fifth team, the Philadelphia Phillies, and is looking to add one more glimmer to his …

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Vladimir Guerrero has become the 4th Dominican baseball player to reach the 400 home run club. Guerrero becomes only the 6th player in Major League Baseball history to have a career batting average of .320 and over 400 home runs. He is also now the 7th player in MLB history to hit 400 home runs …

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The Dominican women’s softball team qualified to participate in the XII Women’s World Softball Championship set for 9-19 July 2010 in Oklahoma, US. The team will also be competing in the Central American and Caribbean Games in 2010 and the Pan Am Games in 2011. The DR is ranked 5th in the Americas, behind the …

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President Leonel Fernandez inaugurates today the Pinalito Hydroelectric Dam in the Province of Monsignor Nouel. The dam’s construction began in 2004, and it cost US$300 million. The project will supply 50 megawatts of electricity to the national grid. This same week, on Thursday, the nation’s leader will inaugurate a National Water Quality Reference Laboratory at …

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The Presidency is sponsoring a Festival of the Ideas from 10 August to 16 September, an event that seeks to highlight the ideas of leading Dominican thinkers. The first of several sessions, on 11 August, the works and thoughts of Pena Batlle, Joaquin Balaguer, Fabio Mota, Rodriguez Demorizi and Arturo Logrono will be discussed by …

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The Verification Commission of the Constitutional Revisory Assembly announced yesterday that they have prepared 100 articles for submission to the full Assembly. Martinez told Hoy reporter Pedro Germosen that his commission approved the report on the first 100 articles and he assured the reporter that next week the work on the total 254 articles would …

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While current expenditures were down 7.7% for the first half of the year, capital expenditures, needed for economic growth, were down nearly 64%, as reported in Hoy. In large part, this was attributed to the 93% reduction in disbursements for government constructions. These figures do not include government arrears with electricity generators, estimated at US$700 …

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The Minister of Public Health expressed his displeasure with the CMD (Dominican Medical College) and censured once again the incidents that occurred at the Francisco Moscoso Puello Hospital, emphasizing that there was no way to talk with the doctors. Yesterday, hospital director Roberto Lafontaine was injured in his bottom lip. He suspects this was for …

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Labor Minister Max Puig says that behind the extended public hospital physician strike is a covert plan to sabotage the Family Health Insurance plan (SFS). Puig is also president of the National Council of Social Security (CNSS). He told Diario Libre that the strikes at the end benefit private health providers that continue to offer …

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The director of the Metropolitan Transit Authority (AMET) began a sweep to rid Greater Santo Domingo of abandoned cars and other vehicles. Basically, these “clunkers” are left, stripped of anything useful, along the streets of the city. As he headed the pick up of the junk vehicles in Santo Domingo, together with the prosecutor for …

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