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An estimated 15,000 drivers have signed up for the prepaid “E-Z Pass” program that allows drivers to drive through tollbooths without stopping to insert their coins in the collection machine. The electronic toll collection program saves drivers time and hassles while passing through tollbooths. The program is run by the Toll Booth Department at the …

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Members of the Palestinian community in the DR and members of the National Human Rights Commission (CNDH) held a protest in front of the Israeli Embassy in Santo Domingo yesterday. Protestors called on Israel to stop the bombing in the Gaza strip. The conflict has been going on for three weeks. Arwad Darwiche, speaking on …

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UASD Dean Franklin Garcia Fermin is reporting that 32 solar panels worth RD$14 million have been stolen from the Agriculture and Veterinarian Studies Department. Garcia did not dismiss the possibility that members of the University security team could have been responsible, because the Department is in front of the security offices. The first 20 panels …

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Four senators are supporting a proposal to increase penalties for domestic abuse. The support for harsher domestic violence legislation comes after an increase in the number of reported cases in 2008. Statistics indicate that between 2005 and 2008 673 women were killed as a result of domestic violence and six women have already died in …

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A report by the coroner’s office has revealed that four of the five men killed last week by police in Santo Domingo’s Parque Mirador Sur were shot in the back, leading some to speculate they were executed by police. The findings were reported by coroner Sergio Sarita Valdez. Police have maintained the deaths were a …

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Dominican officials have detained several people who according to news reports tried to extort Spanish singer David Bisbal. El Caribe reports that the group managed to gain access to confidential information of a personal and professional nature from Bisbal’s personal e-mail account. Judge Keila Perez ordered travel restrictions and a bond of RD$100,000 on Massiel …

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Things just keep getting worse for the Aguilas. Maybe someone should explain to them it’s the post-season. Once again the Aguilas blew a chance at respectability and lost to the Tigres del Licey. Though the 5-0 score was a reminder of the awful post-season it was a reminder that the once high-flying Aguilas are no …

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Preparations for the summit meeting between the leading representatives of the industrial, commercial and banking sectors being convened by President Leonel Fernandez began to gather pace yesterday when the organizing commission visited the headquarters of the three main political parties to request their participation and ask them to prepare proposals on what they consider to …

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Family members of former army captain Quirino Ernesto Paulino Castillo began their exodus from the Dominican Republic after money-laundering charges against them were dropped. They are being protected under the US Federal Witness Protection Program Diosmaris Marmolejos Feliz and her four children by the extradited former officer left for the United States yesterday. Meanwhile, the …

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As well as having to deal with a drug related guerilla war within its own territory, Colombia is also willing to help other countries in the region in the fight against these two problems. In a special interview with El Caribe journalist Fernando Marte in Casa de Campo, La Romana, Colombian Foreign Minister Jaime Bermudez …

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