2010 – Page 275

The online news portal 7dias.com.do reports that the police chief owned an apartment in the 21-floor Torre Atiemar on Av. Pedro Henriquez Urena, La Esperilla neighborhood, now linked to a Spanish drug trafficker and money launderer. The portal also reveals that financing for the luxury high rise came from the Dominican government commercial bank, Banco …

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Puerto Rican press is carrying reports on the higher up Puerto Rican government officers with ties to fugitive drug baron Jose Figueroa Agosto. According to El Tiempo, congressman Antonio Silva, former mayor of Bayamon Ramon Luis Rivera, Bayamon mayor Ramon Luis Rivera Cruz, and former congressman Carlos Lopez Nieves defended their efforts to secure a …

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Diario Libre reports today on the pleas made by neighbors of the Callejon 213 of Jose Tapia Brea street in Quisqueya neighborhood for the deporting of the Tonton Simeon family, known for their drug trafficking activities. On Sunday, 7 March, the National Drug Control Department (DNCD) arrested two girls, 10 and 11 years old, members …

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Peravia senator Wilton Guerrero complained that there are still “big fish” with ties to drug trafficking floating in the military and police ranks. He said that drug traffickers enjoyed 10 years of impunity until the arrival of Major General Rolando Rosado Mateo to the DNCD. He said that operations have gone underground after Rosado was …

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The Los Angeles times reports that ultra-wealthy sugar magnate Jose “Pepe” Fanjul and his wife Emilio (Casa de Campo) were victims of the jewelry robbery at the Four Seasons hotel near Beverly Hills. Police say a man dressed in a tuxedo – to appear as one of the hotel’s workers – is suspect of the …

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Merengue artist Rafa Rosario and his brothers will be at the National Theater stage this coming 16-17 July. Amaury Sanchez is producing the Concierto Sinfonico, in which the Santo Domingo Philarmonic Orchestra will also participate. The idea for the presentation of the show came when two years ago in a show with Juan Luis Guerra, …

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President Leonel Fernandez decorated 10 outstanding women on occasion of International Women’s Day yesterday. The women that received the medal to the merit of women at the Presidential Palace ceremony were honored for their contributions to education, sports, politics, community service, business, science, technology, the arts and professions. They were: Teresa Quidiello Castillo, education; Giovanny …

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Venezuelan Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro did not come for the announced meeting that would have taken place yesterday in Santo Domingo with President Leonel Fernandez. The reason given by the Ministry of Foreign Relations in Venezuela was that his agenda became too complicated. As reported in Diario Libre, the Dominican government said that President Leonel …

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Santo Domingo, American Capital of Culture 2010, now needs to choose its seven treasures of tangible cultural heritage. The Ministry of Culture will be coordinating the selection of buildings, historic and cultural places and monuments. The International Bureau of Cultural Capitals announced that Santo Domingo is the 8th city in the world to carry out …

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The investment of Commonwealth Countries in the DR is estimated at US$5 billion, said Fernando Gonzalez Nicolas, president of the on occasion of the celebration of Commonwealth Day in the DR. For the occasion, representatives of the chambers of commerce and heads of diplomatic missions of the UK, Canada, Trinidad & Tobago, India and South …

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