2009 – Page 35

The National Potable Water and Sewerage Institute (INAPA) has signed a contract with the Dominican-Spanish consortium Acciona Agua-Abikaram-Morilla for the construction of a multi-service system of aqueducts for the province of Peravia (Bani) at a cost of US$110 million. Inapa executive director Mariano German said that the project would supply Bani and 21 surrounding communities …

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The Metropolitan Transport Authority (AMET) has returned a total of 783 vehicles to their owners after receiving payment of the corresponding fines, late fees and sticker price for the renewal of the tax on using the nation’s roads. They also hauled in 3,185 vehicles for not having the marbete sticker showing that the tax had …

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The Shell Company announced yesterday that it signed a sales agreement for its businesses in the DR with the Grupo Sol, with the exception of Lubricantes Dominicanos (Lubridom). Even though the multinational company did not reveal the amount involved in the sale, it reported that the deal has not yet been finalized. The agreement includes …

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Factions of the PRD will face off today in public hearings at the Central Electoral Board (JCE) Disputes Chamber. The session is being convened to discuss challenges to the results of the XXVII Ordinary National Convention. PRD president Miguel Vargas Maldonado announced that lawyers Hugo Tolentino Dipp and Enmanuel Esquea Guerrero would defend the position …

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The Prosecutor for the National District has told reporters that Leavy Yadira Nin Batista and/or Fior Jansen Rodriguez, the wife of the fugitive drug trafficker Jose D. Figueroa Agosto, has multiple assets and increasing wealth that cannot be justified by any legitimate source. He says this is evidence of her ties to converting, transferring, acquiring, …

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The National Drug Control Department (DNCD) reported the capture of 4 more men in the sugar cane fields of the “batey” Palo Bonito yesterday in connection with the small plane seized in the area on Wednesday morning. Colombian Jose Luis Moreno Torres, Venezuelan Jose Eltinio Vivas, Haitian William Boyer (a.k.a. La Rata) and Dominican Jorge …

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The National Drug Control Department has announced the dismantling of a cocaine preparation lab and the arrest of three brothers. The DNCD says the three were arrested in possession of 108 bags of cocaine, 32 of crack, a gun, lab equipment, and dozens of capsules used by “mules” that transport the drug in their stomachs …

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Diario Libre reports that a new book by Angelita Trujillo, daughter of former Dominican Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina, is being launched on 15 January 2010. The book is about her father’s life and his days in government. But Diario Libre says the book could go on sale earlier to coincide with the Christmas shopping …

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The Embassy of Canada reports that the telephone number for its new Acropolis Center offices is 809 262-3100. The Embassy is relocating to the 18th floor of the Citigroup Tower at Winston Churchill 1099, in Santo Domingo’s Piantini sector.

Arawak Art Gallery is presenting an exhibition on dance, with 14 acrylic and pastel works of art on the theme by Maestro Ramon Oviedo. “Dance Divertimento” will be open through 12 December. The exhibition comes on the tail of the recent National Biennial of the Visual Arts that honored the 85th anniversary of Oviedo’s birth, …

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