2009 – Page 68

The National Police have released information on the two dead kidnappers involved in the case of Eduardo Baldera Gomez and established links with several other kidnapping cases. According to today’s Listin Diario, the police are also saying that there are close ties between the kidnappers and a previously unknown or unpublicized leftist group known as …

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The Attorney General has ordered the arrests of the members of the police patrol involved in the shooting that led to the deaths of the alleged kidnappers of young Eduardo Antonio Baldera Gomez. Assistant Prosecutor Ramon Aristides Madera Arias, who headed the commission appointed to investigate the case, said that in principle the arrests are …

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The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has donated US$1 million towards the Santo Domingo Metro feeder route system. The total project cost is US$1,250,000 and the Dominican government will make up the US$250,000 in counterpart contribution. Economy, Planning and Development Minister Temistocles Montas and IDB representative in the DR Manuel Labrado signed the agreement at the …

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The president of the Dominican Association of Free Zones (ADOZONA), Fernando Capellan, has revealed that exports from the nation’s industrial free zones continue to decrease with the resulting loss of 8,000 jobs. He said that in the first half of the year exports were off by 22%, going from US$2.208 billion in the first half …

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Three people on board a helicopter that crashed in the El Limon area in San Jose de Ocoa yesterday were killed, according to a report from the Dominican Civil Aviation Institute (IDAC). The pilot was identified as Wilkler Diaz Romero, a First Lieutenant in the Dominican Army, and his passengers were two architects assigned to …

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The Dominican government has resorted to borrowing ARV drugs from Haiti via the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), according to Dulce Almonte, director of the Network of People Living with HIV and AIDS (Redovih). The Presidential AIDS Commission (Copresida) said that there was no drug shortage, in response to press reports earlier this week claiming …

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A Santo Domingo judge has released Sobeida Feliz Morel, accused of involvement in the case of the US$4.6 million cash haul from a luxury SUV in Santo Domingo. Magistrate Roxana Vazquez set Feliz Morel’s bail at RD$5 million, imposed an exit ban and ordered her to report to the authorities at regular intervals. Sobeida Feliz …

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Former Navy captain Carlos E. Rosso Pena decided yesterday to turn himself over to the United States justice system where he is wanted on charges of protecting and storing boats used by the cartels for trafficking large shipments of drugs into the United States. The former officer took the decision after a lengthy interrogation session …

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A catastrophic accident on the highway between Bani and Azua has left at least 4 people dead and over two dozen injured, according to today’s newspapers. Police named the four people killed as Jose Luis Cruz Sanchez, Griselda Delgado de los Santos, Edwin Viloria and Freddy Delgado. Not all of the injured had been identified, …

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This year’s Brugal prizes, the annual recognition of charitable work by altruistic and dedicated individuals and organizations, awarded the grand prize, now called the George Arzeno Brugal Prize, to the Patronato Contra el Cancer del Nordeste (North-eastern Trust Against Cancer). The ceremony, held in the San Pablo House in Santo Domingo was a posthumous honor …

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