2010 – Page 76

Santo Domingo’s Calle El Conde Street, rich in history and architectural gems, is getting a facelift. Pinturas Tropical has pledged to provide paint to renovate the facades of 60 buildings. Work began this week with the renovation of the first 25. The budget is estimated at RD$10 million. The program is the Santo Domingo Tourism …

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Writing in Hoy newspaper, lawyer Luis Scheker Ortiz describes democracy depends on respect for institutions. He says that a country’s institutions are the political-juridical compendium of a nation as established by the Constitution, and complementary laws. He writes that they need to be rigorously followed by all the powers of the state, whether civilian or …

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Shortly after the return of President Leonel Fernandez from his 13-day tour in the US, the PLD-majority Senate has appointed Roberto Rosario Marquez as the new president of the Central Electoral Board (JCE). The JCE is in charge of organizing presidential, municipal and congressional elections. It confirmed judges Jose Angel Aquino, Eddy Olivares, Cesar Francisco …

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Writing in Hoy newspaper, former Central Bank governor Bernardo Vega describes how the 2011 National Budget submitted to the ruling party majority Congress includes US$2.5 billion in loans of various hard currencies. Of that amount only 8% is subject to public tenders, or transparency. The remainder US$2,304 million the government will be able to spend …

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National Drug Control Department (DNCD) chief, Major General Rolando Rosado Mateo has been sent home to complete his recovery after being treated at the CEDIMAT center of the Plaza de la Salud. The DNCD chief’s driver and assistant remain at the hospital. The three were injured in a serious car accident caused by a tire …

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The FBI announced that 133 people, most police officers, were arrested yesterday in a massive public corruption takedown in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The case is thought to be “the largest police corruption case in the FBI’s history.” Nearly 1,000 Bureau personnel from 50 of their 56 field offices were in San Juan for the …

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The Police reports that it has recovered more than RD$4 million belonging to the Grupo Leoagma Madison Construccion, which was stolen from two company messengers outside the main Banco Leon branch in Naco. The bank’s private security guard Radhames Anglero Garcia was killed when apprehending one of the thieves and his own gun fired accidentally. …

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Santo Domingo is getting ready for Dominican Moda, the Dominican Republic’s leading fashion event and perhaps the most important in Latin America, according to El Caribe. Now in its fifth year, this year’s event, to be held at the El Embajador Hotel from the 18 to 23 October, will bring together 45 national designers and …

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On occasion of the celebration of Santo Domingo as American Capital of Culture, leading Dominican architects are conducting tours of the architecture of Santo Domingo. The five-tour circuit starts with the Colonial City route. Appreciate Santo Domingo the first European city in the Americas, which went on to become the model for newer cities in …

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Dominican singer-songwriter Juan Luis Guerra and his 4.40 band filled the Red Room of the Shanghai Expo Center with 2,600 smiling faces to mark the close of Dominican Republic Day (5 October) at the huge Expo-2010 event. According to Hoy, Guerra said he was “very happy” with the reaction to his music. He told Spanish …

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