2009 – Page 6

The chief of the National Police has ordered a further 16,000 agents to be added to those currently patrolling the streets, with the aim of preventing robberies, attacks and other crimes during the Christmas holidays. Major General Rafael Guillermo Guzman Fermin called on the media to compare police on duty patrolling this year to last …

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Aerodom, the company that runs Las Americas and Puerto Plata International Airports, reports that the big snowstorm that swept across the northeastern United States forced the cancellation of dozens of flights, leaving passengers stranded at both Dominican and US airports. Worst affected were Liberty Airport in Newark, New Jersey, JFK in New York City and …

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The Dominican ‘winter’ officially starts today, with a frontal system located over the Windward Canal, which will bring showers to the northeast, the north, the northwest, the Cibao Valley and the Central Mountains as well as along the frontier. According to a bulletin from the National Meteorological Office, temperatures will be slightly lower for the …

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Twenty properties, including plots, luxury villas, commercial malls, housing projects and apartments have been seized from Ricardo Diez Conde. Spaniard Diez Conde is described as having close links to an alleged network of international drug traffickers that used the country to launder billions of pesos. The seizures were carried out at the request of Spanish …

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The Department of Prisons reports that it foiled plans for a riot at the Higuey jail with the intention of masking the killing of several people being held there in connection with a drug-trafficking flight. The men were arrested after the detection of a Cessna 206 in the Los Jobos area in a cane field …

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Some 200 people were arrested across the country during a combined operation by the National Drug Control Department (DNCD) and the National Police. The swoop allowed agents to take known and recidivist drug sellers out of circulation, many of whom were surprised while sleeping in their houses, while others were caught in the act of …

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Fundacion Arawak/Arte Contemporaneo presents an exhibition of outstanding arts & crafts at Rafael Augusto Sanchez 53, Evaristo Morales. The exhibition is open in evening hours: Thursday 17 December to Thursday 31 December from 7:30 to 10:30pm. For more information, call Mildred Canahuate at 809 565-3614. Sponsored by Pinturas Tropical. For more on ongoing and upcoming …

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On Friday night, the Aguilas Cibaenas kept their playoff hopes alive with some good pitching from lefty Ben Jukich and good hitting by Jose Fernandez, Chris de la Cruz and Luis Terrero to defeat the Leones del Escogido in Santo Domingo by a score of 7-2. Jukich did not allow a single runner to reach …

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President Leonel Fernandez launches his Christmas gift boxes handout program in Montecristi this Sunday. The government says that it will spend more than a billion pesos and will distribute the boxes of food to about one million people, according to El Nuevo Diario. From Montecristi, the President will go to Dajabon and Mao, in Valverde …

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President Leonel Fernandez has appealed to international agencies to help curtail corruption in his government. A recent Gallup poll showed that Dominicans perceive corruption as on the increase. As reported by the Presidency, on Thursday President Fernandez met with Valerie Julliand and Mauricio Ramirez of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), Roby Senderowitsch of the …

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