2009 – Page 56

The number of illegal flights by South American drug cartels to the Dominican Republic has risen to 354 over the last three years, while drug package drops over land and water total 59, according to National Drug Control Department (DNCD), chief Major General Rolando Rosado Mateo. He was addressing a Round Table meeting on “Organized …

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Both the District Attorney of the National District and the National Drug Control Department are asking the Supreme Court to look into a decision by judge Franny Manuel Gonzalez Castillo who changed an order to remand Jimmy Oliver Rodriguez Ortiz, and allowed the accused to post a bail bond instead. Rodriguez Ortiz is accused of …

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Two men, one who had been deported from the US after eight years in jail on a drug trafficking sentence, died on Wednesday evening when falling from a 6th floor building in La Trinitaria neighborhood, Santiago. They had climbed to the roof of the apartment building, seeking to hide and escape from National Department of …

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No games were scheduled in the Dominican Winter League Championship last night, but the league did announce the start of inter-league play. According to Puerto Rican Baseball League and Dominican Winter League officials Sadi Antonmattai Goitia and Leonardo Matos Berrido, the inter-league play will start on 21 November with Dominican teams Escogido, Gigantes and Toros …

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Jose Luis Perales, one of the most famous Spanish songwriters of all times, will perform at the National Theater. With sales of more than 100 million, he will be on stage 30 and 31 October. He is best known for “Celos de mi guitarra,” “Ella y el”, “Amada mia” and “Por amor”. He will present …

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President Leonel Fernandez has been relatively quiet about the Dominican Republic’s current economic, political and social issues. In contrast, he has been very vocal in expressing his opinion about the situation of deposed President Manuel Zelaya in Honduras. Last night at Funglode, the President’s think-tank and now also a university, he used the forum for …

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The cycle is simple. Buy and sell drugs. Get more money, buy more guns and get more power. Created in 1988, the National Drug Control Department (DNCD) did not fight back and its structure remained the same. The doors were left wide open to unprecedented infiltration from traffickers and dealers over the last two decades. …

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Dominican bank customers receive one of the highest levels of protection in Central America and Panama, according to Haivanjoe Ng Cortinas, the DR’s Banking Superintendent. Ng quotes information from a report by the Ranking Latino Americano. Ng says that in the light of the recent financial crisis, this achievement can be appreciated even more. Ng …

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The DR’s political parties have received RD$1.06 billion in taxpayer money to fund their activities, but they have yet to install the free information access offices as established in Law on Free Access to Public Information 200-04. Hoy reported that none of the three leading political parties have done so, keeping to themselves what they …

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A study by consultant Humberto Checo reports on the burgeoning illegal business of charcoal production and smuggling to Haiti, where it is estimated that 86% of charcoal used for cooking now comes in from the DR. Haiti has deserts where it once had forests, and now these deserts are moving eastwards, taking over the once …

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