2010 – Page 86

Ministry of Environment officials and dozens of volunteers made a wonderful discovery over the weekend while taking part in the International Beaches Cleanup Day. They found eight small hawksbill (carey) turtles at Guibia Beach in the heart of downtown Santo Domingo. The turtles are on the Endangered Species list and thought to be close to …

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Writing in his op-ed piece in Saturday’s Hoy newspaper, news commentator Juan Bolivar Diaz cited government corruption as the main reason the DR is likely to fail to achieve the Millennium Development Goals by 2015. Speaking at the United Nations in New York last week, President Leonel Fernandez blamed the 2003 local banking crisis, the …

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The nation’s scrap metal dealers and exporters are calling for a new tender for the scrap metal from the Manzanillo Project. David Santiago, the president of the DR National Scrap Metal Companies Association, described the allocation of the tender to a company that had just been created, that was not registered as a metal exporter …

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Investigative TV journalist Nuria Piera revealed this weekend that National Assets (Bienes Nacionales) director Elias Wessin Chavez had asked the Executive Branch to declare land belonging to his wife and her family “eminent domain” to be used for a housing project in the south eastern province of San Pedro de Macoris. The reporter also said …

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Prices for most fuels were frozen for another week, according to the Ministry of Industry and Commerce. Only diesel fuels were increased by RD$1 per gallon after a week that saw oil prices go down for the most part. Regular diesel will now sell for RD$134 a gallon, premium diesel for RD$140.30, premium gasoline for …

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American Airlines may suspend its flights to Puerto Rico next year, bowing down to competition from JetBlue, according to rumors reported in Diario Libre. AA operates one early morning and two afternoon flights from Santo Domingo to Puerto Rico. American Eagle has an additional two flights a day. The flights would be suspended as of …

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A pilot failed to land at Las Americas International Airport on Wednesday, and his N100PV plane landed two miles to the east of runway 35. The private plane crashed at 12:45pm and its four occupants were rescued with only minor injuries. Yolanda Manan, communications manager for Las Americas International Airport said the airplane had arrived …

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Junot Diaz and Rhina Espaillat were honored during ceremonies celebrating Dominican Week in the United States. The ceremony, which was held at the Dominican Embassy in Washington, D.C. was hosted by Luis Heredia Bonetti and Bertha Nin de Saladin, the wife of the Dominican ambassador. According to Hoy newspaper, Junot Diaz, the winner of the …

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Prosecutor General of the Dominican Republic Radhames Jimenez Pena announced yesterday that he was suspending an assistant prosecutor who allowed a judge to release three convicted drug traffickers after serving only a fraction of their 10-year sentence. Jimenez Pena said that he accepted the recommendation of the commission from the Attorney General’s office that looked …

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The president of the National Drug Control Department (DNCD), Major General Rolando Rosado Mateo says that several security agents at Santiago’s international airport have been arrested and will be sent to trial on charges of complicity in the smuggling of more than 1,000 kilos of cocaine in approximately eight trips to Miami, Florida. According to …

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