2010 – Page 81

Diandino Pena, director of the Metro office, says the first 14km line of the Metro transports 90,000 passengers a day, round trips included. A single fare on the Metro is RD$20. Pena said the government subsidy to the Metro is US$15 million a year. He estimates that the Metro generates around US$15 million annually, as …

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The rate of births to teenage mothers is reaching critical levels. A report in Diario Libre says that between January and August this year, 13,975 girls aged 15 to 19 gave birth at public hospitals, according to Ministry of Public Health statistics. Of the babies born to teenage mothers, 187 were stillborn and 192 were …

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Senator-elect for La Altagracia province Amable Aristy Castro hasn’t yet been sworn in as senator for his province. He has chosen to stay on as president of the Dominican Municipal League (LMD), a role that oversees state funding allocations to city governments nationwide. He was the only Senator elected after running on another party’s ticket …

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The Supreme Court has ordered the suspension of San Cristobal judge Francisco Mejia Angomas. He recently ordered the release of three people who had been sentenced to 10 years in jail for drug trafficking. Supreme Court president Jorge Subero Isa said the court’s decision had been unanimous. As reported in Listin Diario, Mejia Angomas defended …

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Mabel Feliz, president of the National Council of Drugs says that anti-drug organizations have not been able to reduce a single one of the 19,000 drug sales points in the country. Claudio Acosta of Que Se Dice in Hoy says that drug traffickers are the most dangerous enemy that Dominican society faces. He quotes Feliz …

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A 12-year-old Russian, Denis Khokhryakov, who was abandoned by his Russian foster parents in the Dominican Republic in 2005, returned to Russia on Friday. Khokhryakov, the son of an alcoholic single mother from the Volgograd region, had been adopted by Larisa Onopriyenko and Sergei Sologub in 2003, as reported in the Moscow Times. In 2004, …

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The surviving sister of the Mirabal sisters and mother of Environment Minister Jaime David Fernandez, Dede Mirabal has been hospitalized at the Unit of Intensive Care Unit of the Metropolitan Hospital of Santiago (HOMS). A medical team made up of Benjamin Hernandez, Nicolas Batlle and Manuel Lora Perello said she had been taken to the …

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Former US Vice President and climate change advocate Al Gore will be in Santo Domingo for a 4 November lecture: “Thinking Green, Economic Strategy for the 21st Century.” For ticket information, call G-Learns at 809-334-1864 or e-mail info@g-learns.com

Sensational Taiwanese jazz-fusion sextet Sizhukong is booked for two Dominican performances in October. The group that is making waves for its fusion of traditional Chinese music with jazz will be making a stop as part of their Central American and Caribbean tour. The group, directed by Yuwen Peng, will be playing at the Palacio de …

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President Leonel Fernandez visited Silicon Valley in California on the latest leg of his 13-day tour. He signed an agreement with France Telecom, through Orange Dominicana, for the installation of the Orange Lab Research Institute in the DR. The lab will be installed at the CyberPark. Eddy Martinez of the CEI-RD signed for the Dominican …

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