2010 – Page 84

The Prosecutor General, the Chief of the Police and the chief of the National Drug Control Department held a press conference yesterday to announce the Fernandez administration’s latest attempt to fight crime. As reported in Hoy, Prosecutor General Radhames Jimenez Pena announced funding from Spanish cooperation agency, AECID, to be used to train prosecutors. The …

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Assistant Attorney General Frank Soto said on Tuesday that suspended judge Francisco Mejia Angomas was lying when he said that he had accepted a request from the Justice Department to release individuals convicted of drug trafficking and warned that he will have to answer for his actions and that his office is investigating the magistrate …

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The Police say their agents have shot and killed one of the individuals connected to the murder of Dr. Sergio Rafael Rojas Soriano outside the Botanical Gardens last month. The report says that another of the three men accused of the crime and three other murders was also arrested after a shootout with a police …

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Yesterday Amnesty International called upon the Dominican authorities to launch an investigation into the disappearance of Juan Almonte Herrera who is said to have been kidnapped by the police. El Caribe says that in their press release Amnesty underlines their worry “over the frequent complaints of violations of human rights by the Police and security …

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Diario Libre reports that Cardinal Nicolas de Jesus Lopez Rodriguez asked hundreds of children from several private schools who were attending the Mass celebrating the rights of Children for forgiveness for the abuses by Catholic priests who abused children all over the world. “We ask for forgiveness for the priests who have abused the children”, …

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Rafael Soriano sent the Tampa Bay Rays into the post-season with his 44th save of the season. No matter what happens in the final games, the Rays will either be in the playoffs as the winners of the Eastern Division of the Junior Circuit or as a Wild Card. Soriano now has an ERA average …

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The National Meteorological Office (Onamet) said yesterday that the rains, thunderstorms and wind gusts associated with a low-pressure trough located to the southwest will continue to affect a large part of the country today. The low-pressure area became a tropical depression #16 and was located just to the south of Cuba. While the storm does …

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President Leonel Fernandez was in California yesterday where he made a presentation on “Can Democracy Meet the Needs of the People of the Hemisphere?” at the Institute of the Americas on Monday, 27 September at the University of California, San Diego. Fernandez also met with supplier companies that have expressed an interest in the Dominican …

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Dominican soldiers are being trained for service in the United Nations Haiti Stabilization Mission in Haiti (Minustah). Military sources told El Dia that the training of the first group has been completed. The Dominican unit will be stationed in Haiti. During a recent visit to the DR, Minustah police commissioner General Gerardo Chaumont warned that …

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The team made up of Marcelo Rogelio Silva Iribarne (Edesur), Eduardo Saavedra Pizarro (Edenorte) and Francisco Leiva Landabur (EdeEste) has 45 days, as of 10 September to present a strategic plan for resolving the problems affecting the power distributors. The three Chilean executives have three months to deliver a first report on the situation of …

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