2010 – Page 32

Puerto Rican reggaetton star Cosculluela, a.k.a El Principe del Verso, is booked for a performance at the Palacio de los Deportes in Santo Domingo this coming Saturday, 27 November at 8:30pm. For more on upcoming events, see www.dr1.com/calendar

The Ministry of Public Health has confirmed the detection of three cases of cholera in the DR. The second and third cases were diagnosed in a three-month old baby girl and her grandmother in Santo Domingo East. Health Minister Bautista Rojas Gomez told Diario Libre reporters that the nation’s hospitals have prepared isolation wards for …

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Late on Friday night, the magistrate at the Second Court of Instruction of the National District, Claribel Nivar Arias, ordered Sobeida Felix Morel and seven others to stand trial on charges of money laundering of assets from illegal activities by drug baron Jose Figueroa Agosto, now in a Puerto Rican jail. The magistrate partly accepted …

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The police in Puerto Rico, together with US Federal authorities succeeded in rounding up 17 members of the drug trafficking gang that was led by Jose David Figueroa Agosto over the weekend. Puerto Rican Police chief Jose Figueroa Sancha said that one of Figueroa Agosto’s brothers, Jorge Luis, was arrested in the operation. According to …

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Diario Libre features an article with accounts from several Haitians who have crossed the border several times, mainly thanks to payments and bribes to military and civilian officials. For example, as soon as “Pierre’s” mother returned from Santo Domingo to Delmas, in Haiti, after the earthquake of 12 January, he told her: “Haiti is broken, …

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The Metropolitan Traffic Police (AMET) confiscated 2,500 vehicles this weekend in a sweep of un-renewed vehicle registrations. The vehicles that were seized are now subject to a RD$1000 fine, plus the normal RD$600 late fee for not renewing their registration in time. And it was so easy! Nearly 300 offices were set up all over …

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The Dominican Republic has had eight censuses since 1920, when the first was taken by the occupation government, under US supervision. Since then, the Dominican Republic has changed from a poor, uninhabited rural country into a country of 8.5 million largely urban people with signs of modernity but with profound social disparities. In 1920, the …

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In the first 17 days of this month, debit card and credit card operations carried out at ATMs and processed by Cardnet and presented to the clearing house for payment in the Central Bank, reached RD$835.9 million, for a daily average of RD$49.1 million. The number of transactions was 594,390, according to data from the …

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Yesterday, the Dominican nation said goodbye to a man who had made them laugh for more than 50 years, Freddy Beras Goico. Newspapers today tell the tale of how tens of thousands of people lined the streets and avenues, the highway and the overpasses where the funeral cortege passed through. Questions like “What will we …

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Several of the most outstanding figures in Dominican politics and public life have been taken by cancer. Hoy newspaper tells how veteran PRD leader and presidential candidate Jose Francisco Pena Gomez died of cancer just a few days before the local elections of 1998. He had been suffering from pancreatic cancer for more than four …

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