2010 – Page 276

Michaelle Jean, Governor General and Commander-in-Chief of Canada and her husband Jean-Daniel Lafond are scheduled for a 9-10 March visit to the DR. They are expected at 9:30pm when they will be welcomed by Canada ambassador Todd Kuiack at Las Americas International Airport. On 10 March during the morning, round tables with representatives from civil …

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The director general of the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization (Unesco) is visiting today. She is on a 4-day tour of the DR and Haiti. She arrived last night and on Tuesday traveled to Port-au-Prince to evaluate damages to the cultural patrimony in Haiti and make contributions to education. She is expected to …

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News sources are commenting that the US has requested in extradition some 10 Dominican retired generals for their ties to drug trafficking, and specifically the case being heard by Judge Kimba Wood at the New York South District Court regarding former army captain Quirino Ernesto Paulino Castillo. Among these are retired general Rafael Bencosme Candelier …

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Quirino Ernesto Paulino Castillo’s defense laywers Felix Olivares and Freddy Castillo, interviewed on the Enlace radio show said that the government of the US has cancelled the visa to travel to the US of more than 10 generals for their ties to the former Dominican Army Colonel Quirino Paulino case. Of these some have been …

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Baseball Commissioner Allan H. (Bud) Selig announced today that he has appointed longtime baseball executive Sandy Alderson to serve as a consultant to Major League Baseball, focusing on the implementation of reform to the sport’s operations in the Dominican Republic. In 2009, Alderson served as the chairman of a committee that evaluated the operations of …

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The replica of the schooner “Amistad”, built in the United States, is hosting visitors in Santo Domingo. The ship is a replica of the ship that in 1839 was taken over by slaves off the coast of Cuba and eventually made port in the United States, where the slaves were arrested and jailed and later …

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President Leonel Fernandez will meet today, around noon, with Foreign Relations Minister Nicolas Maduro of Venezuela as he continues to foster talks for the reconciliation of President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela and President Alvaro Uribe of Colombia. Fernandez hopes a new meeting between Uribe and Chavez might be held after today’s session with Maduro. Despite …

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Over the weekend, President Hugo Chavez received Manuel Zelaya, deposed President of Honduras who is in exile in the DR. Zelaya was appointed chief of the political council of PetroCaribe, the Venezuelan organization that finances petroleum sales to Caribbean countries. Chavez said in Venezuela that he would recognize the new Honduras President Porfirio Lobo if …

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Today is International Women’s Day. Expect lots of talk by politicians who hope to convince voters into the May congressional and municipal elections. Today is a day to remember that even when women continue to suffer discriminations and the numbers of female homicides continues high (female murders nevertheless were down last year 32% last year), …

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The deadline is past for making alliances and, after the Central Electoral Board (JCE) issued its approval last Saturday regarding the deals made by the principal political parties, all that is left to do is the official registration of the candidates due by 17 March. The JCE accepted the alliances worked out by the PLD …

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