2011 – Page 32

President Leonel Fernandez formally inaugurated the project to repair the Bavaro-Uvero Alto-Miches-Sabana de la Mar road today. The project includes the construction of a port terminal at Sabana de la Mar to improve transport links to Los Haitises and Samana. The project has a budget of US$265 million. Marcelo Odebrecht, president of the Brazilian Odebrecht …

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The Presidency reports that Vice President Rafael Alburquerque received 12 young people from Japan who are taking part in a student exchange in the Dominican Republic at the Presidential Palace yesterday. Japanese Ambassador Soichi Sato led the student delegation. Alburquerque focused on the friendship and solidarity in bilateral relations with Japan and invited the young …

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The Ministry of Environment has announced its goal of planting two million trees in October, which is Reforestation month. The Ministry announced that 600 tree-planting activities have been planned, and some 15,000 volunteers will join tree-planting brigades organized by the Green Quisqueya Plan. Some 500 companies, institutions and organizations will also take part in the …

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The United States Department of Energy’s National Security Administration has donated radiation detection equipment for use at the Multimodal Caucedo Port. The equipment was delivered to the port during a ceremony headed by US Ambassador Raul Yzaguirre. Customs director Rafael Camilo received the security equipment, which will be used to detect smuggling of radioactive and …

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Senator Wilton Guerrero (PLD-Peravia) said yesterday that the chain broke at its weakest link in the judgment against those accused of asset laundering in collusion with Puerto Rican drug capo Jose David Figueroa Agosto. As reported in Hoy, he believes the true people responsible or this mafia has not even been mentioned. He said he …

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In Sosua, a 31-year old German Roman Buchenauer is suspected of strangling his 29-year old Venezuelan wife Zuyin Rosmery Rivas and 10-year old daughter Natalia Buchenauer, before hanging himself. The bodies were found around noon yesterday in the Residencial Casa Linda, and the Police said they had been dead for about 15 hours. Puerto Plata …

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The Peace Boat is visiting Santo Domingo on its 74th Global Peace Voyage, one of 27 stops since the ship set sail from the Japanese port of Yokohama on 19 July 2011 on a world tour that ends on 27 October 2011. The voyage has included a long stay in northern European countries including the …

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At about 2:50 in the afternoon, a violent thunderstorm, with strong wind gusts, thunder and lightning, and torrential rains hit the city of Santiago. Shortly after the rain started, the storm also produced marble-sized hailstones, a sign that the storm was indeed a very powerful one. The hailstones rained down on the roofs of the …

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Several events in Santo Domingo are not to be missed. They include the 26th Biennial of the Visual Arts at the Museum of Modern Art, the Tete Marella & Valeria Lerner art exhibition, Recycled Art Surprises by Marcelo Feder and the Contemporary Dance Festival at Bellas Artes, the Season Concert of the National Symphony Orchestra …

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Ruling PLD party presidential candidate Danilo Medina spoke yesterday to comment favorably on First Lady Margarita Cedeno’s qualities for Vice President. “I share President Leonel Fernandez’s view that Dona Margarita would be an excellent candidate for the Vice Presidency. She has all the qualities: she is a woman with great social vocation, a woman who …

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