2010 – Page 50

Civil society group Citizen Participation has vehemently rejected the move by the new Central Electoral Board (JCE) to eliminate what is known as the “preferential vote”. The National Council of Citizen Participation warned that the decision by the JCE is a violation of the spirit of Article 79 of the Electoral Law. According to El …

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Celso Marranzini, the executive vice-president of the Public Electricity Companies (CDEEE) has told the Permanent Commission on Energy Affairs that he would prefer to appear before the commission on 10 November, instead of 3 November as they had requested. He said that he needed the additional week to fully prepare his file on the major …

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The Minister of Public Health is calling on the security agencies in charge of guarding the frontier to take greater responsibility in response to the risk posed to the country by the illegal entry of Haitians, at a time when the cholera outbreak affecting Haiti constitutes a threat for the Dominican Republic. Yesterday’s request by …

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Following an accident involving a truck that was transporting 87 illegal Haitian migrants, the role of the specialized military border security corps, Cesfront is again being questioned. Cesfront is in charge of monitoring traffic along checkpoints from the border inland, and is suspected of accepting tolls in return for allowing the passage of vehicles with …

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The stalemate between the members of the commission that evaluated the more than 200 candidates for positions on the board of the Chamber of Accounts, the governments auditing agency, continued this week, and now it seems that the commission might be able to present its five different lists during Thursday’s session of the Chamber of …

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The Justice Department is asking for 30-year sentences against eight of the accused in the Paya massacre case, 20 years for seven of the accused and 10 years for the remaining defendants. In addition, the prosecutors asked the court to seize the movable and immovable assets and the destruction of the eight kilograms of cocaine …

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Last night the President designated new directors for the Preventive Police and for the “Safe Barrio Program”, and the chief of the National Police introduced other changes in several areas of investigations and prevention. By means of Decree 613-10, President Leonel Fernandez appointed Brigadier General Valentin Rosado Vicioso as the new director of the Preventive …

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Many Dominicans won their elections in the US yesterday. The most prominent victory was that of Angel Taveras, who won his bid for Mayor of Providence, RI. This makes Taveras the third Dominican American elected as mayor in US history (behind Alex Blanco of Passaic, New Jersey and William Lantigua of Lawrence, Massachusetts). However, Taveras …

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Shannon Tavarez, a brilliant young singer-actress in the huge Broadway hit “The Lion King, passed away yesterday, a victim of leukemia. The young Dominican actress beat out hundreds of other hopefuls for the role of the young lion Nala, the childhood pal and girlfriend of Simba the star of the musical. Her battle with leukemia …

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The country’s number one TV personality, humorist Freddy Beras Goico, was taken to the Intensive Care Unit of the Center for Diagnostics and Advanced Medicine (Cedimat) yesterday by his son, after complaining of stomach pains. He is reported to have displayed symptoms of hypoglycemia. A bacterial infection is suspect, but he was being kept in …

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