2009 – Page 312

Financial analyst Alejandro Fernandez Whipple makes an important point in a contribution to today’s Diario Libre on how pension plan savings by Dominicans have been invested in government securities. “Money belonging to Dominican workers is being invested to sustain government deficits, contributing very little to the creation of value in the Dominican economy,” he points …

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Diario Libre online carries the intriguing news that the plane that disappeared with pilot Adriano Jimenez and 11 passengers on board in December is back at Santiago’s Cibao International Airport. “What is curious about the case is that the airplane returned to the Cibao International Airport and there is no news on the passengers or …

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According to a report in today’s Listin Diario, the Dominican Civil Aviation Institute (IDAC) has announced the arrest of a pilot and the owner of a plane for supposedly carrying out an illegal flight. The pilot is suspected of having commanded what started out as a domestic flight and then became an international flight without …

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Twenty-two police officers listed in a notebook taken from an accused drug dealer in Bonao were arrested by Chief of Police Rafael Guillermo Guzman Fermin and transferred to the north-central Regional Command in Santiago de los Caballeros yesterday. The notebook was found by National Drug Control Department (DNCD) agents. General Eduardo Then, commander of the …

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The full panel of the Supreme Court has fired a Justice of the Peace and suspended two judges for 30 days without pay for serious errors in office. They are Ennio Nicolas Diaz Lopez, the Justice of the Peace in Villa Vasquez and Miguel de Jesus Arache Urena, judge of the Third Court of Instruction …

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An alleged criminal is close to death after suffering burns, bullet wounds, knife wounds, blunt force trauma and stoning by a furious mob in the Las Coqueras section of San Cristobal. Local residents say that the victim was caught after entering a house and taking appliances worth thousands of pesos. The man, who is thought …

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National District judge Jose Alejandro Vargas has issued a sentence to remand Samuel Aguero Brito a.k.a. Freddy Aguero Brito (El Sapo – “the Toad”) in preventive custody for one year. Aguero Brito, 22 is thought to have committed 17 murders, among them the killing of a police private and a trader. The prisoner has been …

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The multi-sector conference convened by President Leonel Fernandez to discuss national issues in the light of the present global economic crisis begins today amidst a range of expectations and frustrations with previous all-talk and no-action events organized by the government. The “Summit for National Unity Facing the World Crisis,” also dubbed the “Summit of the …

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Former presidential candidate Danilo Medina has expressed confidence that President Leonel Fernandez will be forced to adhere to the results of this summit because a failure to do so would mean that the summit had been held “to waste time.” Medina, who has mostly stayed out of the public eye since 2007 when he moved …

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Although the Summit organized by the President has received a great deal of media attention in recent weeks, it has emerged that many members of the public have limited knowledge of the summit, its intended goals and many of the summit’s more important details. El Caribe held an unofficial public survey, questioning students, housewives, taxi …

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