2010 – Page 54

While Haiti braces for what could be a catastrophic event, according to some forecasters, the Dominican Republic is preparing for Tropical Storm Tomas. The storm could hit the country during the early hours of Tuesday, the Emergency Operations Center (COE) director General Juan Manuel Mendez reported yesterday. The COE has issued a green alert from …

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Sonia Silvestre has announced a concert in honor of her friend, the late Luis “Terror” Dias. The concert is scheduled for 2 November at the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Santo Domingo at 8:30pm. She will be accompanied by Transporte Urbano, the group founded by Dias. Dias died on 8 December last year. Sonia promises …

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The Dominican Winter Baseball Tournament continued over the weekend with the Toros from La Romana maintaining their impressive string of victories. On Friday night the Toros defeated the somewhat hapless Aguilas Cibaenas 2-0. In San Pedro de Macoris, the resurgent Estrellas Orientales defeated the Tigres del Licey with a score of 8-2. In Santo Domingo, …

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President Leonel Fernandez was in Punta Cana yesterday to attend the Latin American Free Zone Conference at the Paradisus Palma Real resort. He highlighted the way the industry in the DR had suffered with the entry of China and the removal of the multi-fiber agreement. Fernandez spoke of the many opportunities for the industry as …

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In a page-two editorial today, executive editor of Diario Libre Adriano Miguel Tejada speculates that President Leonel Fernandez’s intense political activities nationwide is just a way of keeping party cohesion around his person. He says that re-election has been kept alive since the approval of the 2010 Constitution that bans consecutive presidential re-election. But he …

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Culture Minister Jose Rafael Lantigua and US Embassy cultural attache Katherine Cantrell attended the launch of the Mobile Cinema outreach program yesterday, as reported in El Caribe. The program, which is sponsored by Orange telecom, and has the cooperation of the Centro Franklin, the cultural promotion division of the US Embassy, is taking movies to …

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President Leonel Fernandez was at the San Isidro Air Force Base to receive the remaining five of eight tucano jets purchased by the government with a loan of US$93 million taken from the Brazil export bank, BNDES. Chief of the Air Force, Major General Israel Diaz said that 39 Dominican pilots are being trained to …

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Still reeling from the effects of overspending in the first quarter of the year in the run-up to the legislative and municipal elections, the government is announcing a second budget cut to ministries and departments to free up RD$10.5 billion for payments of the interests due for the recapitalization of the Central Bank. By law …

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Food poisoning has affected 10 children in Escuela Mirador Norte in Guaricano, in the north of Santo Domingo. The children experienced stomach pains and vomiting after drinking spoiled milk, as reported in El Dia. The children were taken to the Moscoso Puello public hospital for treatment. El Dia reports that this is the fifth case …

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A Police patrol has killed a man who was hiding in a cave along the Las Americas Expressway after murdering a highway patrolman in a robbery attempt. He was accompanied by a 15-year old youth who was arrested at the scene. Luis Villa, 25 died at the Dr. Dario Contreras Hospital after seeking refuge in …

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