2011 – Page 48

The International Children’s Heart Foundation (ICHF) has announced the expansion of their program in the Dominican Republic to include Santo Domingo beginning September 2011. ICHF is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing lifesaving surgical care to children with congenital heart disease throughout the developing world. ICHF, which already serves the Dr. Arturo Grullon Regional Children’s …

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Power plant specialist Wartsila has been awarded a turnkey EUR155m contract by Barrick Gold to supply a gas-fired power plant for a project in the Dominican Republic. The combined cycle power plant will provide electricity for the Pueblo Viejo gold mine. The Finnish company will supply 12 Wartsila 50DF engine units in combined cycle. These …

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GlobeX (Global Exchange Program), organized by AIESEC, the international platform for young people to explore and develop their leadership potential, officially opens its applications to all the students or recent university graduates from all around the country from 12 September 2011. AIESEC offers young people the opportunity to experience living in a country like India, …

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Ruling PLD party presidential candidate Danilo Medina swore in his National Campaign Committee yesterday. He urged the members to be humble and reach out to voters and listen to their complaints. “We cannot lose,” he stated. Medina said that in this phase they would go from house by house and reach out to people on …

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In the first six months of this year 1,249 people died in violent incidents, 49 more than in the same period in 2010, reports El Dia. Most of the homicides involved guns. According to Police reports, the toll of violent deaths for January was 219, February 208, March 196, April 212, May 230 and June …

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Inmates at the La Vega jail brutally beat a man who made the news last week after strangling his two children in protest at their mother having left him. As reported in Diario Libre, 32-year old Junior Rafael Hernandez Trinidad was beaten up by his cellmates before members of the Army could intervene to isolate …

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The Senator for Peravia province Wilton Guerrero (PLD) had warned it could happen. El Dia reports that the Court of Appeals of the Penal Court of San Cristobal ordered the release on bail of suspected contract killer Bertinio Solano. Solano is accused of murdering two youths and quartering their bodies in Palenque and Nizao in …

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The Dominican Republic national basketball team lost to Puerto Rico (79-62) and to Argentina (84-58), its two strongest rivals in Group A, and thus will not grab one of the two Olympic Games qualifier posts in the FIBA tournament. The DR still has a chance to make it to the final Olympics qualifier in July …

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The Instituto Colombiano de Ballet Clasico is performing at the Altos de Chavon Amphitheater in La Romana on Saturday, 10 September. The performance is free. The ballet company, which is directed by Gloria Castro, is based in Cali, Colombia. For more on ongoing and upcoming events, see www.dr1.com/calendar  

As the National Judicial Council (CNM) sifts through the hundreds of applications for posts in the nation’s highest courts, they promised to televise the process and scheduled a meeting for next Wednesday. The CNM met for the second time yesterday and unanimously approved a modification to the Fundamental Law of the Supreme Court of Justice …

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