2010 – Page 74

The stores along Santo Domingo’s Winston Churchill Avenue are joining forces to fight the wave of criminal activities that have attracted a lot of media attention lately with pregnant women and young children taking part in robberies and shoplifting. Before the end of the year, the big stores and the chain stores, banks and other …

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The National Police arrested four men in Bani on Saturday, and seized 702 bags (125 lbs. each) of refined sugar that had been stolen on Thursday on the highway near Juan Dolio by unknown subjects (‘unsubs’ in police parlance) who used a shotgun and left the truck driver and his helper tied up behind a …

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El Caribe published a story on Saturday that says unofficial sources are talking about hundreds of Dominican military personnel, government officials, legislators and businesspeople linked to the case of Puerto Rican drug baron Jose Figueroa Agosto. A Dominican magazine highlights “the uncover presence of 10 federal agents from the United States who are patiently investigating …

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A new tropical wave will bring rain showers with thunder and lightning in the southeast, northeast, southwest, central mountains and along the border with Haiti. According to the National Meteorological Office (Onamet) forecast issued yesterday at 6pm, Santo Domingo and environs should see scattered showers throughout the day. In the Cibao, more rains are expected …

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The DR has won the Latin American Table Tennis Championship held in Santo Domingo. The Dominicans notched up 325 points for 17 medals, including 2 gold, 5 silver and 10 bronze. 17 nations were competing in the tournament. Puerto Rico came second with 250 points, including 5 gold, 2 silver and 3 bronze medals. Peru …

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Dominicans are celebrating the award of the 2010 Nobel Prize for Literature to Peruvian author and one-time presidential candidate Mario Vargas Llosa. One of his more recent works, The Feast of the Goat (2000), tells about the horrors of the Trujillo dictatorship and was written after months of research by Vargas Llosa, who took up …

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President Leonel Fernandez visited La Romana yesterday to cut the ribbon at the inauguration of a new branch of Plaza Lama. Covering an area of 16,000 square meters, the department store joins Jumbo and Semma as nationwide stores located in La Romana. Other large supermarkets and department stores serving La Romana town are home-based Iberia, …

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President Leonel Fernandez says the issue of the country’s foreign debt is political, and the opposition is exaggerating and creating bogeymen where they don’t exist, as reported in Hoy. He says that the PRD government did create a very serious problem, but that the PLD administration has reduced it and the IMF has recognized this. …

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Economist Arturo Martinez Moya says that the government has maintained stability by the central government, decentralized institutions and Central Bank taking on new foreign debt. He projects the public debt will reach US$21.8 billion by the end of 2010, not US$13.8 billion, as stated by the government. Martinez Moya says that the internal debt of …

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The DR’s total imports were US$7.27 billion in the first six months of the year, up 33.8% compared to last year. Of the total, fuel imports made up US$1.77 billion, a US$660.5 million increase. Most of the imports were consumer goods. Diario Libre reports that of the total, machinery for manufacturing imported from the United …

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