2010 – Page 34

The nation is mourning the loss of much loved Dominican TV personality and comedian Freddy Beras Goico, who died in a New York City hospital in the early hours of Thursday. He had been suffering from pancreatic cancer for the last four years and died just three days short of his 70th birthday. Freddy Beras …

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Famous for their romantic ballads, Duo Pimpinela is booked for a performance at the Hotel Jaragua’s Salon La Fiesta on 25 November at 9pm. The concert is part of the popular Argentinean duo’s 25 Anniversary Tour. For more on upcoming events, see www.dr1.com/calendar

They are still talking about the tremendous homerun that flew out of the Quisqueya Stadium last night. Juan Francisco is one of the very, very few to have ever hit a homerun over the center field wall, some 411 feet from home plate. Francisco’s seventh homerun of the season led the visiting Gigantes del Cibao …

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The 4th Funglode Film Festival was inaugurated yesterday at the National Theater in Santo Domingo in the presence of President Leonel Fernandez and First Lady Margarita Cedeno. Special guests this year include Claudia Cardinale, Victoria Abril, Jimmy Jean Louis and Benicio del Toro. The event is dedicated to Arturo Rodriguez, who died recently after dedicating …

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Former President of Chile Michelle Bachelet is visiting the Dominican Republic for a conference in Santo Domingo, the Regional Conference on Gender, Integration and Development. She received an award from President Leonel Fernandez at the Presidential Palace. Bachelet’s agenda includes a talk on “Women, State and Economy” at the Presidential Palace, and meetings with President …

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After the DR’s first cholera case was confirmed this week, the authorities have stepped up their preventive measures and now are asking people crossing the border to sanitize their feet and car tires when entering the DR from Haiti. The Ministry of Education is distributing cholera prevention booklets to three million students in public schools …

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A woman who had been visiting family in Haiti was diagnosed with the first known case of cholera in the US, the Miami Herald reported yesterday. On Saturday, the first known case of cholera in the Dominican Republic had been reported. This again was attributed to someone who had been visiting relatives in Haiti before …

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The president of the Central Electoral Board (JCE) Roberto Rosario has told El Caribe that the entity is in “a deplorable economic condition.” He says the government has not disbursed RD$800 million. The JCE urged Congress to allocate a further RD$3.15 billion to cover the deficit. He estimated that the year-end deficit would stand at …

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Four new ambassadors presented their letters of credence to President Leonel Fernandez at the Presidential Palace yesterday. These are Austrian Ambassador Thomas Schuller Gotburg, Costa Rican Ambassador Jose Rafael Torres, Israeli Ambassador Mosche Semoneta and US Ambassador Raul Humberto Yzaguirre. President Leonel Fernandez was accompanied by Foreign Relations Minister Carlos Morales Troncoso during the ceremony.

The Council for the Strategic Development of the City and Municipality of Santiago (CDES) presented a new 2010-2020 Strategic Plan yesterday that seeks to promote entrepreneurship, create worthwhile jobs, a connected and orderly city with social, gender and territorial equity, as reported in Hoy. The vision seeks to create conditions for environmental sustainability and health …

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