2010 – Page 20

Magic Christmas by Santa and Friends is the name of the all-day Christmas show that takes place on Saturday, 11 December on the third floor of the Sebelen Bowling Center on Santo Domingo’s Lincoln Avenue. The show is a combination of magic, juggling, music and popular children cartoon and TV series characters. The show goes …

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Speaking in the Brazilian city of Manaus yesterday, President Leonel Fernandez admitted that the solution to the energy problem and crime are the principal challenges faced by his administration. He said that the electricity issue had been ongoing for many years and that his administrations have worked to find a definitive solution, but they would …

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Vice-President Rafael Alburquerque told reporters in Santiago that the 11% hike in the electricity rates this month was made in response to a requirement by the International Monetary Fund. Nevertheless, he said that the government was analyzing the situation as set out by the international financial organization. He said that the administration always listens to …

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“Yellow Monday”, a day of action organized by a network of civil society organizations, is aimed at highlighting the demand for assigning 4% of the GDP towards education. The call for 4% has grown from its starting point in the capital to a nationwide campaign. Pressure on the government to fulfill the law and grant …

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The school breakfast program has accumulated debts of RD$794 million with several milk producers, according to information obtained yesterday. Hoy newspaper says that the program owes the following companies: Leche Fresca, RD$108 million; Pasteurizadora Maria, RD$41.7 million; Pasteurizadora Isura, RD$17.1 million; and Lacteos Dominicanos (Ladom), RD$275.3 million. They also owe Parmalat RD$125 million; Pasteurizadora Rica …

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Several Senators are millionaires in their own right and owners of significant properties, and besides receiving a monthly salary of some RD$280,000 they also have other economic incomes, according to Diario Libre. The biggest fortunes belong to re-elected representative of the province of Sanchez Ramirez, industrialist Felix Maria Vasquez, whose sworn declaration of assets said …

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The National Statistics Office (ONE) reported yesterday that work by census takers in the IX Population and Housing Census had intensified over the weekend as planned, increasing the number of households covered, because many people were at home. In a press conference at the ONE headquarters, director Pablo Tactuk said that the problems that initially …

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The PRD Political Commission and the National Executive Committee (CEN) will meet today to complete the membership of the Organizing Commission for the XXIX Extraordinary Convention to select the presidential candidate for 2012, as well as ratifying 6 March as the date for holding the nominating convention. Party secretary general Orlando Jorge Mera announced that …

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On Friday afternoon, the magistrates of the Third Collegiate Tribunal of the National District handed out jail sentences totaling 323 years for 16 of the 22 defendants in the notorious Paya Massacre case. They were sentenced to serve jail terms ranging from 3 to 30 years, the maximum permitted under Dominican penal law. The remaining …

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A total of 18 members of the Specialized Airport Security Corps (CESA) and the National Drug Control Department (DNCD) were detained for investigation on Friday in connection with the seizure of 145 kilos of cocaine from an airplane that had come in from Puerto Rico. During the investigations, agents found US$69,020 in a car belonging …

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