2011 – Page 249

Dominican premium rum is the leading seller in Europe, as reported in Listin Diario. Last year the country exported two million boxes of rum to Spain alone. Local consumption in 2010 was 4.2 million boxes, down from a high of 5.5 million boxes. The DR heads the list of the world’s 46 rum producing countries. …

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The US Embassy American Citizens Service Unit staff will be at the Centro Cultural Dominico-Americano (Av. Estrella Sadhala 101) in Santiago on Wednesday, 2 February to provide services such as US passports renewal and documents notarization. The Embassy encourages US citizens to keep their passports up to date. The staff will also include a representative …

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Police spokesman Maximo Baez Aybar has identified Santo Domingo resident Osiel Fernando Moreta Feliz as the person who admitted planning the robbery at the Palacio del Cine of the Blue Mall earlier this month together with two other individuals known as Beto and El Chulo. Moreta was an employee at the movie house. Moviegoers were …

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American Airlines, JetBlue, Delta, Continental, Spirit and US Airways suffered delays and flight cancellations yesterday due to heavy snowstorms affecting the East Coast of the US, mainly from New York and Philadelphia. For Las Americas International Airport schedules, see www.aerodom.com/app/do/frontpage.aspx For Punta Cana International schedules, see www.punta-cana-airport.com

25-year old Juan Delgado is hanging on in the popular Spanish reality show talent contest, Operacion Triunfo 2011. He is a graduate in industrial engineering from the Pontificia Universidad Catolica Madre y Maestra (PUCMM) now residing in Barcelona. He made it to the second round of Operacion Triunfo competing against 13 other participants. Listin Diario …

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The traditional National Independence Cycling Route will be on the road from 20 to 27 February. The route takes international and national cyclists on a tour of the country. The USA23 juniors national team of the United States confirmed coming with Robert Bush, Maxwell Durschi, Anders Newbery, Rob Squire, Larry Werbasse, Eamon Franck, among others. …

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Despite moving the holiday to Monday, 24 January, today is Duarte’s real birthday. Government, academic, military, political and municipal institutions will commemorate the date in various ways. It is the 198th anniversary of the birth of the Founding Father of the Dominican Republic, Juan Pablo Duarte, who was born on 26 January 1813. The day …

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President Leonel Fernandez arrived in Geneva to begin his agenda with a meeting with officials from the University of Geneva. The Dominican head of state and his entourage were received by the chief of protocol of the Swiss Foreign Ministry, Jean-Luc Chopard, the Dominican ambassador in Bern, Teresa Torres, the Dominican ambassador at the World …

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Indian news sources are reporting that President Leonel Fernandez will visit the Haryana-based O P Jindal Global University to sign a memorandum of exchange with the university branch of the Global Foundation for Democracy and Development, for mutual exchange of scholars and cooperation in developing academic programs. President Fernandez travels to India after his visit …

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Former Monetary Board member Eduardo Garcia Michel warned of the negative effects of the Dominican government’s lack of decisive action on migratory issues in an opinion piece in today’s Diario Libre. He mentions research by economist Ramon Perez Minaya who looked at the rise in income per capita from 1994 to 2007, when it increased …

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