2010 – Page 306

India’s Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Shashi Tharoor is expected in the DR for a 3-day visit from 23 to 26 January. Caribbean Media Exchange (CMEx) stresses that the visit could be a significant moment in the widening of a huge market for Dominicans and for the region. The visit occurs on the wake …

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The Gigantes del Cibao, led by outstanding pitching from Aquilino Lopez, Waldis Joaquin, Antonio Bastardo, Joel Peralta and Dario Veras managed to shut out the Leones del Escogido, 1-0, in an exciting game at the venerable Estadio Quisqueya. For the first time in 49 games in the regular series, 14 games of the Round Robin …

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At the preparatory summit meeting held in Santo Domingo yesterday, the message was that relief is essential, but that the current situation should serve as a wake-up call to the world that Haiti needs the support of the international community in order to move out of extreme poverty. President Leonel Fernandez said that when the …

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The final Declaration of Santo Domingo produced at the conclusion of the “United for a Better Future for Haiti” pre-Summit, convened by President Leonel Fernandez for his counterpart President Rene Preval, calls for the drafting of a strategic plan to be submitted at a following summit. The draft will be based on the UN Millennium …

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As the pre-Summit “United for a Better Future for Haiti” was taking place in Santo Domingo, an emergency meeting was held in Brussels, where European Union development ministers met to discuss Haiti in the wake of the earthquake tragedy. The EU’s Higher Representative for Foreign Affairs and commission vice-president, Catherine Ashton acknowledged the need to …

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Last July the Paris Club countries agreed to cancel Haiti’s foreign debt burden. This debt was unlikely to be repaid. This decision was reconfirmed during the Santo Domingo summit for Haiti, but President Leonel Fernandez took it a step further by proposing that dropping the Dominican debt could help develop Haiti. Former Central Bank governor …

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Merengue star Rubby Perez has provided a house in Alma Rosa to house Haitian patients recovering from surgery at the Dario Contreras Trauma Hospital in Santo Domingo. The public hospital has been stretched to the limit by patients seeking surgery, and one of the problems has been that the patients have nowhere to go afterwards. …

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After 5 days trapped under the rubble, the owner of Port-au-Prince’s Hotel Montana, which collapsed burying 200 people at just before 5pm on Tuesday 12 January, was rescued on Saturday at 4pm. 62-year old Nadine Cardozo was flown to Santo Domingo for recovery. She was hospitalized at the Abel Gonzalez private clinic. Cardozo was accompanied …

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Dominican demonstrations of solidarity continue. Following the example of the first stores to turn their efforts to help Haiti into their main message to their customers, the business organization that groups the DR’s leading malls, ONEC, announced that its affiliates would be collecting goods for sending to the country’s main aid collection centers. ONEC president …

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Writing in today’s Diario Libre, economist Gustavo Volmar states that the main damage caused by the earthquake in Haiti was in urban areas. He explains that its intensity, shallowness and location combined to cause massive devastation in Port-au-Prince. Buildings, avenues and streets were blocked, and major political, economic and social centers destroyed. He also mentions …

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