2010 – Page 292

For years there have been landslides in the Septentrional Mountains along the north coast of the Dominican Republic, often with tragic consequences. Now experts are calling for measures to be taken to prevent more disasters as the rainy season approaches. In recent months there have been landslides in Carlos Diaz, Palo Quemado and Marivasque, near …

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Bruno Langlois from Canada’s Spidertech Team has won the first stretch of the 31st Independence Cycling Tour, a bicycle race that takes cyclists all around the DR. He clocked in at 2:49.13 after completing the 125km stretch. 25 teams are competing in the Tour. Dominican Osvaldo Capellan was just seconds behind, clocking in at 2:49.18. …

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President Leonel Fernandez and Vice-President Rafael Alburquerque led the dignitaries who paid homage to the Dominican flag as part of a series of events held yesterday to celebrate the foundation of the nation and the 166th anniversary of Dominican independence. During a ceremony held at the Altar de la Patria, Juan Daniel Balcacer, the president …

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The Dominican government and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) have signed an agreement to open a US$100 million dollar line of credit for use in case of a natural disaster. Representing the government, Hacienda Minister Vicente Bengoa met IDB representative in the DR Manuel Labrado to sign the agreement on Thursday. According to a statement …

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A shocking number of children drop out of public primary school, according to the National Education Forum. For every 100 students who begin primary school only 48 finish the eighth grade and barely 25 go on to enroll in high school. The president of the National Education Forum (FENA) Andres Matos Sena described the situation …

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The Dominican Customs authorities are warning that they will apply “drastic” measures to prevent food products or any other kind of product from being smuggled into the Dominican Republic from Haiti. Customs director Rafael Camilo said: “We are going to be strict. The aid that arrives in Haiti should stay in Haiti, because the products …

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After several days of heated debate about the exact cause of the accident that took the lives of a dozen people when a bus crashed into the sea, the District Attorney for the National District ordered the exhumation of the body of the driver, Roberto Familia. Familia had been buried before an autopsy could be …

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The general administrator of the Banco Agricola, engineer Paino Abreu Collado is asking why not a single person is under arrest 2 months after a RD$2.3 million robbery from the Banco Agricola’s Bonao branch, “when it is clear there was complicity”. He expressed his concern at the fact that Elizabeth Rafelina Acosta Diaz, who was …

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Sobeida Felix Morel’s lawyer has asked television journalist Alicia Ortega to refrain from broadcasting an interview with 2 of the fugitive’s young children because their mother had objected. In a file that was filed as an appeal for an injunction against the broadcast, lawyer Felix Humberto Portes Nunez asked the prosecutor of the Court for …

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The PLD has given 4 senate slots to the PRSC as part of the alliance process that is beginning to come together after several months of negotiation. The provinces reserved for the PRSC nominees for senate seats are La Altagracia, Samana, Sanchez Ramirez and Elias Pina. The candidates for senator for these provinces will be …

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