2011 – Page 37

A traditional staple in Dominican backyards, mangoes have become an economically and socially important product for the country because of the hard currency that the crop generates through exports and the labor it employs. Mangos, the DR’s third largest fruit crop after bananas and avocados, are exported to far-flung countries like Japan, the UK and …

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Officers from the National Drug Control Department (DNCD) and the National Police announced the arrest at dawn on Tuesday of two of the alleged murderers of Lieutenant Colonel Cesar Augusto Ubri Bocio. One of the men is a corporal in the National Police. The arrest was made after both men violently broke through the gates …

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During the last three years, Santiago society has been shaken by several scandals involving corruption, contract killers, drug trafficking and human trafficking, provoking alarm amongst the representative sectors and putting the government on alert. Some of the sectors that were consulted by Diario Libre say the geographic location and economic growth propelled by the development …

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A shipment of 46 boxes of sports caps laced with cocaine was discovered at the Multimodal Port Caucedo, the newest in a long string of creative ways to smuggle cocaine, as reported in El Dia. The National Drug Control Department (DNCD) said the cocaine was seized on 22 September in collaboration with Navy and Specialized …

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The National Meteorological Office (Onamet) is forecasting that a low-pressure area over Puerto Rico will bring rain showers to the Dominican Republic this afternoon and evening. The system, which has a slight chance of becoming a tropical cyclone in the next day or two, will bring rains to most of the country. In other news, …

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Reviews on the performance of the Taiwan have been excellent. The Ministry of Culture and the Embassy of Taiwan announced that an additional performance tonight at 9pm at the main hall of the National Theater. The performance is part of celebrations of the 100th anniversary of Taiwan. The acrobats performed last night to the enthusiastic …

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President Leonel Fernandez, in New York for the 66th General Assembly of the United Nations, met with President of Colombia Juan Manuel Santos who backed Fernandez’s global initiative for futures markets to curb speculation in food and fuel, the Presidency website reports. Santos said he would support the bill when it is presented at the …

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The government of Venezuela has announced it will increase oil supplies to the Dominican Republic from 30,000 to 50,000 barrels of oil a day, under the PetroCaribe Agreement that dates back to 2005. The agreement allows for long-term credit purchases with extended grace periods. Foreign Minister Carlos Morales Troncoso made the announcement at the end …

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At an event organized by the American Chamber of Commerce yesterday to discuss the fiscal challenges in the Dominican Republic, three economists warned that the level of spending and the consequences of high taxation are a burden for the country’s development. The economists said that the government must exercise its role as a regulator, creating …

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The Plaza de la Salud General Hospital has announced the formal inauguration of its new state-of-the-art Nuclear Medicine Unit. The unit uses radioactive material to identify and treat cancer and other diseases. President of the board, Dr. Julio Amado Castanos Guzman, president of the board of the HGPS said that gammagraphy studies and radioactive iodine …

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