2010 – Page 87

Five years after President Fernandez announced an ambitious plan to decimate crime in the barrios, levels of violence have increased and thousands are still dying each year in drug and crime related violence. According to El Caribe, after the first year of the “Democratic Security” program there were 2,236 homicides, most of which were committed …

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A prisoner, Jimmy Oliver Rodriguez de la Cruz, a convicted drug trafficker who supposedly “escaped” while being moved to jail, was taken out of the country by people hired by his influential relatives. El Caribe reporters received this information from a source in the National Police. According to the source, the 21-year old drug dealer, …

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Five minors arrested for the murder of seven taxi drivers and injuring two others in Santo Domingo received sentences of three to five years on Thursday. Judge Rafael Abreu of the Children and Youth Court of the Province of Santo Domingo sentenced three of the minors, including a girl, to five years. Two others, aged …

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On Thursday, 29-year old Toronto Blue Jays slugger Jose Bautista hit the landmark 50th homerun in a game with extraordinary pitching by Felix Hernandez as the Blue Jays won to Seattle Mariners 1-0. Bautista received a well-deserved curtain call as his teammates retrieved the valuable souvenir for him. The 50 homeruns are an extraordinary achievement …

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DR1 Daily News will not be updated tomorrow, Friday 24 September, on the occasion of Mercedes Day. News will be compiled for the Monday, 26 September issue. According to tradition, in 1495 the Virgin Mary interceded in favor of the Spanish conquistadors in a battle against Indians at Santo Cerro in the central province of …

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President Leonel Fernandez and the William Paterson University signed an agreement on Wednesday setting up an exchange program for students and faculty staff, following a speech by the Dominican leader on the importance of education in his country, as reported in NorthJersey.com Fernandez spoke of his vision to transform the Dominican Republic with a hi-tech-based …

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Speaking at Hostos Community College in New York yesterday, President Leonel Fernandez declared that the Dominican Republic is going through a genuine education revolution that will conclude with the creation of citizens for what he defined as the “Era of Knowledge,” as reported in Hoy. He said that individuals with high educational levels are required …

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In his column in today’s Hoy newspaper, commentator Claudio Acosta accuses President Leonel Fernandez of using his oratory skills to blame “unforeseen circumstances, both internal and external, as reasons for the country lagging far behind in fulfilling the Millennium Goals at the 65th United Nations General Assembly. He says that the President blamed the 2003 …

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Diario Libre’s gifted editorial writer Ines Aizpun writes today on President Leonel Fernandez’s most recent 10-day travels in the US. “Since the dawn of time, it has been said that politicians would pursue merchants so they would pay for their election campaigns. In modern history, businessmen pursued politicians seeking a contract. Postmodernism brings a new …

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The World Bank representative in the DR, Roby Senderowitsch has reiterated that the country needs to improve the quality of its public spending and make public investments of greater value to citizens. He was commenting on the occasion of the review of country’s fulfillment of the UN Millennium Development Goals. The DR has fallen behind …

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