2011 – Page 5

The announcement made by PLD senator Felix Bautista yesterday that First Lady Margarita Cedeno would be PLD presidential candidate Danilo Medina’s running mate coincided with the results of an Asisa poll that reveals that if the presidential election were held today, PLD presidential candidate Danilo Medina, and the probable vice presidency candidate First Lady Margarita …

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Surgery to separate Dominican conjoined twins Maria Teresa and Teresa Maria is set for 7 November. The operation will take place at the Richmond Children’s Hospital in Virginia, USA where the twins have been undergoing tests prior to the possible separation surgery. The twins, who are 16 months old, were born joined at the abdomen. …

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Richard D. Holder, president of Electrical Components for Eaton Corporation’s electrical sector was in Santo Domingo recently to speak at the annual meeting of the Dominican Association of Free Zones. Eaton is an US$11.9 billion global diversified power management company that has been doing business in the DR since the early days of operating as …

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Army Lieutenant John Percival Matos was arrested yesterday and the government says he is the leading suspect in the theft of a Beechcraft plane at 3:20 early Sunday morning from the La Isabela International Airport (AILI) in northern Santo Domingo. His wife, Ginnssellys Halversoni Vasquez had been working at Aerointer that operates in Hangar No. …

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Writing in today’s Listin Diario, Laura Castellanos has a list of questions that Dominicans are asking about the theft of a Beechcraft Kingair airplane from a hangar at the La Isabela International Airport in northern Santo Domingo. The questions include: * The criminals had to enter the airport installations, but “what identification or authorization did …

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A substitute judge in La Altagracia, Sandy Ramirez, has ordered the release of Winston Rizik Rodriguez (El Gallero) arrested on 14 October for his connection with the murder of two men in a cockfighting arena parking lot, as reported in Diario Libre. The judge said there was not sufficient evidence to incriminate the accused. The …

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Spain’s Guardia Civil has reported the attempted smuggling of 625 kilos of cocaine in a freight container from Brazil. The ship was transporting coffee and had been chartered in the Dominican Republic, but the report says that the drug was loaded on board during a stopover in Brazil. This is the largest confiscation of drugs …

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The Vogue Italy website focuses on Dominican designers taking part in the 2011 Dominicana Moda fashion week. The feature highlighted a retrospective of 30 years in fashion by Jenny Polanco and spring-summer 2012 ready-to-wear clothes by local designers. www.vogue.it/en/shows/oddities/2011/10/santo-domingo-fashion-week-spring-summer-2012

To a full-house stadium in Santo Domingo, home team Tigres del Licey defeated the Aguilas Cibaenas from Santiago. The game ended 5-1, to the enjoyment of capital city fans. In La Romana, the home-based Toros del Este defeated the Leones del Escogido, 5-4 in another crowd-pleasing game. In a surprising turn of events, the Dominican …

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Rent, the rock musical by the late Jonathan Larson, based on Giacomo Puccini’s opera La Boheme will be staged at Bellas Artes in Santo Domingo over the weekend of 11, 12, 13 November. It tells the story of a group of impoverished young artists and musicians struggling to survive and create in New York’s Lower …

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