2010 – Page 211

The abstention rate in the National District and the provinces of Santo Domingo and Santiago was evident in the electoral process in which around 50% of registered voters did not go to the polls. After the Central Electoral Board (JCE) released Bulletin #13 yesterday, it is possible to project that the three largest voting populations …

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PRD president Miguel Vargas Maldonado has described the congressional and municipal elections as fraudulent, and announced that his party has begun to give notices of appeals at several municipal election boards. Speaking to reporters yesterday, he accused the PLD of “stealing” more than half of the Senate seats they obtained, by using the money that …

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A company check from the La Francesa coffee shop was used to purchase one of the villas in Casa de Campo belonging to fugitive Puerto Rican drug baron Jose Figueroa Agosto, and which was recently confiscated by the state prosecutors, Presidential drug advisor Marino Vinicio (Vincho) Castillo told Listin Diario. The owner of La Francesa, …

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Peravia senator Wilton Guerrero says that the La Francesa murder is proof that the Figueroa Agosto network is still operating with total impunity despite the Drug Control Department (DNCD) head’s claims that it had been annihilated, as reported in Hoy. “The country is being led down a very dangerous path by the drug traffickers,” he …

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In Las Matas de Farfan, three people have been injured and 33 houses were damaged by flooding caused by the recent rains and strong winds, according to the Emergency Operations Center (COE). The injured, who were hospitalized, were named as Ruben D’Oleo, Pedro Montero Sanchez and Luis Joel Montero Ogando. The houses lost their roofs …

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Eric Musselman has been confirmed as the coach for the Dominican team in the run-up to the Centrobasket 2010 competition. Hector Baez, spokesman for Dominican Basketball Federation Fedombal, said that Musselman would be arriving on 13 June. One of two of his assistants, Clay Moser will arrive on 8 June. Musselman, an experienced NBA coach, …

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The Alina Abreu Ballet company presents “The Corsair” at the National Theater. This is a major production with 150 dancers, with Laura Fernandez and Allison Garcia in the lead roles. Performances are at 8:30pm on Thursday, 27, Friday, 28 and Saturday 29 May. There will be an additional performance on Friday, 28 May at 10:30am. …

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President Leonel Fernandez took Haiti’s plight to the discussion table at the 6th Summit of Heads of State and Government of the European Union, Latin America and the Caribbean taking place in Madrid. President Fernandez invited the heads of government to attend the World Summit on Haiti’s Reconstruction set for Punta Cana on 2 June. …

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In the absence of President Leonel Fernandez who had already left for Spain, key members of the PLD celebrated their party’s victory in the congressional and municipal election. The PLD and allies won 31 of the 32 senate seats, and its traditional ally, Amable Aristy, president of the Dominican Municipal League, won the seat for …

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Servio Tulio Castanos Guzman, director of the Institutionalism and Justice Foundation (Finjus) said that the ruling PLD party’s overwhelming victory in the 16 May congressional and municipal election means they have an even greater responsibility towards the people, as reported in El Caribe. Castanos said that the government now needed to carry out a legal …

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