2010 – Page 247

The private company that supplies electricity in Samana province says that a notification of a new 16% ad-valorem tax on natural gas from the Ministry of Industry of Commerce and Ministry of Hacienda has taken them by surprise. The notification arrived on 22 March 2010, as reported in Diario Libre. The Luz y Fuerza power …

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On Sunday the police arrested six people, including four minors, and a hair-raising story emerged of how they are suspected of stabbing or strangling their victims, usually taxi drivers. One of the minors, a girl, confessed she would stab her victims, getting high at the sight of the blood flowing, and would then have sex …

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A man who had been arrested seven times has been arrested once more for selling cocaine in the garage of his house in Ensanche La Fe. According to the National Drug Control Department, 30-year old Angel Eduardo Franco Mayolino has been arrested on several occasions, but has always found a way to escape justice. In …

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The National Drug Control Department (DNCD) says it has discovered a tunnel in the low-income Mejoramiento Social neighborhood that drug traffickers used to escape from the authorities, as reported in Diario Libre. They also discovered a drug lab and 2 kilos of cocaine, and marijuana and crack portions. They arrested two youths aged 19 and …

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The government of Japan has announced post-graduate, technical and cultural exchange programs available to young Dominican students for next year. Applications need to be submitted by 2 July 2010. The two-year graduate programs, which start April 2011 to March 2013, are open to university graduates. The technical courses last three years, and run from April …

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Leading Dominican Republic children’s folklorist, Edna Garrido de Boggs died this weekend at the age of 96 at her home in Virginia Beach. She would have been 97 years old on 19 June. The Ministry of Culture reported that she had been suffering from a lymphoma but refused treatment on the grounds that she had …

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The Eduardo Leon Jimenes art contest announces that within the changed format of the bi-annual arts contest it has chosen 10 artists to exhibit their works of art this year. From 131 art projects submitted, the Centro Leon chose Johnny Bonnelly, Gerald Ellis, Monica Ferreras, Sayuri Guzman, Pascal Meccariello, Natalia Ortega, Hulda Guzman, Gustavo Pena, …

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First Lady Margarita Cedeno says that her office will cover the medical costs of separating the conjoined (Siamese) twins who were born in Santo Domingo last Thursday. The babies, who are at the Luis E. Aybar Hospital, will be taken to Plaza de la Salud for the operation. Specialists have already begun to evaluate the …

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The government is borrowing US$80 million from the Andean Development Corporation (CAF) to finance a housing project under the National Housing Institute (INVI). Signing the agreement for the government were Hacienda Minister Vicente Bengoa and INVI director Alma Fernandez, and CAF president Luis Enrique Garcia. President Leonel Fernandez was also present at the signing. The …

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With the exception of polls showing former Vice President Milagros Ortiz Bosch leading the race for Senator for Santo Domingo, the leading opposition party PRD is trailing behind the ruling party PLD+PRSC coalition. Writing in Hoy newspaper, Juan Bolivar Diaz analyzes the way that the internal divisions within the PRD have impeded the organization from …

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