2010 – Page 270

The president of the National Association of Young Entrepreneurs (ANJE), Miguel Antonio Roig confirmed yesterday that the four candidates from the Dominican Revolutionary Party (PRD) have confirmed their participation in the ANJE debates. They are Milagros Ortiz Bosch, the candidate for the Senate seat for the National District, Alfredo Pacheco, candidate for the mayor’s job …

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According to the Listin Diario, the firearms arsenal found in one of the basements of the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo (UASD) is suspect to belong to the FELABEL (Grupo Estudiantil de Liberacion Amin Abel). The university council suspended all operations of the student group that dates back to the 70s. The National Police have …

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“Beware the Ides of March.” Lisandro Macarrulla, the head of the National Council of Business (CONEP), warned yesterday that money laundering is hurting formal business activities. He called upon the authorities to continue their efforts in the struggle against drug trafficking. Macarrulla said that the easy money from money laundering provides a competitive advantage against …

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Journalist Maria Cristina Rodriguez of Zona 5 TV program on Telemicro, Channel 5, revealed that the director of the Dominican Agrarian Institute (IAD), engineer Hector Rodriguez Pimentel had purchased a luxury apartment at the Torre Atiemar, now under investigation after the developer, Arturo del Tiempo Marques was arrested and charged in Spain for attempting to …

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The District Attorney for the National District confirmed that Colombian German Eduardo Duque Garcia is under investigation as an alleged partner of Arturo del Tiempo Marques of the Torre Atiemar, now intervened by the judicial authorities. On 2 March the Spanish authorities seized 1,200 kgs of cocaine from Del Tiempo Marques. Duque Garcia, who is …

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Powerful interests are said to hamper justice. Diario Libre and El Caribe focus again on the complicity of crime with government that has impeded the solving of crime and corruption scandals. On occasion of the most recent case of the Atiemar Tower, in which President Leonel Fernandez himself participating in the ground opening and the …

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Listin Diario reports that more than 6,000 persons are in jail for drug trafficking in the DR, which is 30% of those in jail. There are 19,726 persons in jail. Of these 5,900 are for drug trafficking, 5,345 for murder (27.1%), 3,945 for robbery (20%), 1,500 (for rape), among other charges. The statistics of the …

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The National Ballet of Spain is booked for the National Theater on Saturday, 27 March and Sunday, 28 March at 8:30pm. The gala is sponsored by the Ministry of Culture on occasion of the Santo Domingo being in 2010 the Cultural Capital of the Americas. Tickets at the National Theater box office. RD$1,000, RD$750 and …

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Four men wearing hooded tops and heavily armed assaulted the casino of the Hotel Melia Santo Domingo on the Malecon. Reports are that they stole RD$2.6 million and took with them a check for more than US$86,000 and other valuables. Hoy reports the versions are the men arrived around 7am and parked near the casino …

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President Leonel Fernandez met yesterday with the director general of the United Nations Education, Science and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Irina Bukova, who is visiting the DR. The purpose of her visit is to coordinate aid programs with the DR and Haiti. Bukova said that she discussed the reconstruction of Haiti and the role of the …

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