2009 – Page 86

The Ministry of Industry and Commerce issued the new fuel prices on Friday. Gasoline prices have gone down by one or two pesos. Regular gasoline went down to RD$139.40, a RD$1 reduction, and premium gasoline was pegged at RD$151.10, RD$2.00 less than the previous week. Both grades of diesel fuel and LPG remained at the …

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The weekend’s newspapers reported the transfer of several of the accused in the Paya case to prisons around the country, following death threats to the prosecutors. The case involves the August 2008 massacre of 7 Colombians presumed to be drug traffickers. As a result of the incidents in the latest hearing in the courtroom in …

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Stacks of case files, evidence boxes and dusty papers will become recyclable after today. They are in the warehouses of the Prosecutor General, the courts and even the Supreme Court and they all belong to cases that were initially begun under the old Criminal Procedure Code. The deadline for terminating or closing the cases is …

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The Bahoruco Mountain Range National Park is under attack by Haitians and Dominicans who are stripping the mountains of their trees to make charcoal for the markets in Haiti. The Forum on Protected Areas is complaining that these virgin forests are being invaded by people, who when caught by the authorities accuse park rangers of …

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The main opposition party, the PRD, held its ordinary convention this weekend and according to the first bulletin issued by the National Organizing Commission for the Convention, with 17.38% of the votes counted, Orlando Jorge Mera was leading the race for the post of Secretary General with 59% of the votes counted, followed by Guido …

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Over 48,000 people visited the “V Regional Book Fair, La Vega 2009” that was held for 6 days in Duarte Park in La Vega. The fair was dedicated to the Centennial of the birth of the city’s celebrated son, the late professor Juan Bosch. Students and schoolchildren made up most of the visitors. “Of the …

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The DR’s No. 1 bowler, Aumi Guerra, has placed 12th in the US Open, winning the right to compete in the Women’s Series 2009 bowling professional tour with events this year in Michigan (World Series of Bowling) and two more in January 2010 – one in Oregon and another in California. She said this is …

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The Dominican Republic staved off four match points to outlast Puerto Rico in five sets (19-25, 25-23, 16-25, 32-30 and 15-8) in the last game of the Norceca Women’s Continental Championship in Bayamon, Puerto Rico before 7,000 spectators. By winning the NORCECA Continental Championship, the DR team qualified for the 2009 FIVB Grand Champions Cup …

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In his address to the United Nations General Assembly, President Leonel Fernandez justified strengthening relations with countries with controversial leadesr, such as Venezuela and Libya. He said that the DR needed to look after “its own interests” and that it sought to expand its international presence. Fernandez said that the international community should not doubt …

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President Leonel Fernandez assured reporters in New York that the government would be signing an agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in less than three weeks to finance the budgetary problems that he attributed to the impact of the world crisis on fiscal collections. “These are not agreements for structural adjustments to resolve issues …

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