2010 – Page 42

Almost six months after he should have, La Altagracia senator-elect Amable Aristy Castro (PRSC) has been sworn in to represent the province in Congress. The president of the Senate, Reinaldo Pared Perez took his oath yesterday at the Senate. Aristy Castro had not been sworn in because he was still holding on to his post …

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A proposal to create a museum about the Trujillo regime in the DR was rejected in public hearings at the Chamber of Deputies by 41 of 45 votes yesterday. Speaking in favor of the museum was a grandson of the dictator Rafael Trujillo, Leivin Guerrero, the deputy who made the proposal, Juan Pou Castro and …

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Cleren, an alcoholic drink brewed by Haitians, has been confiscated from several stores nationwide. Luis Emilio Feliz, director of environmental health at the Ministry of Public Health, says that the manufacturers do not have a health license. He warned that the concoction is highly toxic and is produced and stored without sanitary controls. He announced …

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Front-page stories in Hoy and Listin Diario show National Drug Control Department agents with a confiscated haul of 400 kilos of cocaine yesterday. Police Major General Miguel Rodriguez, two Colombians Jorge Luis Garcia Salazar and Andres Martinez Villegas and Dominicans Anibal Castillo (Elvis), Antonio Zapata Ramirez and Pablo Roberto Polanco were arrested when carrying the …

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The private investigator state prosecutors are accusing of heading a network that taped people in motels in order to blackmail them is protesting his innocence and saying there is no proof against him. He was arrested in Santiago on 4 November. 35-year old Francisco Alberto Carela Castro says he had a deal with the Santiago …

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Engineer Hiddekel Morrison writes today in Diario Libre to warn anyone who stays at motels and “touristic cabanas” nationwide. He explains that new surveillance technology makes it easy for taping devices be placed inside the hotels for and videos to be sold to Internet pornography sites or used for blackmail with the complicity of motel …

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The weather in Santo Domingo today is ideal. A high-pressure system over the Atlantic is keeping temperatures pleasantly cool nationwide. The forecast is for sunny skies, but noontime temperatures are averaging 26C, with early morning temps of around 23C. For weather updates, see www.dr1.com/forums/weather-beyond/102242-h-season-outlooks-2010-a.html

To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the murder of the Mirabal Sisters (immortalized in Julia Alvarez’s novel In the Time of the Butterflies), the Ministry of Culture presents Ballet Tres, a performance by the national ballet on Friday, 12 November, Saturday, 13, and Sunday 14 at the Maximo Aviles Blonda hall of the Palacio de …

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Dominican Albert Pujols, the St. Louis Cardinals ace player, was honored yesterday with his second Rawlings Gold Glove Award. The first baseman won his first Gold Glove Award in 2006. The award is granted by Major League Baseball managers and coaches. As reported in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Pujols had 146 double plays and a …

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A report in El Dia today reveals that the Escogido cheerleaders, with only one exception, are foreign. Darla Pachedo is from Puerto Rico, and Paola Aristizabal, Paula Andrea Giraldo, Sarah Jaramillo and Juliana Herrera are from Colombia. Only Yaderin Aquino Serrano is from the DR. The women say their profession is modeling, and that this …

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