2011 – Page 63

A Hong Kong dentist known for his love of scientific exploration has announced he is about to embark on a mission to find the lost tomb of doomed Egyptian lovers Cleopatra and Mark Antony. Ng Tze-chuen, 58, joins Dominican lawyer-turned-archaeologist Kathleen Martinez, in their quest to deliver “the most important discovery of the 21st century”, …

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The number of people displaced by Hurricane Irene now totals 12,596 according to the Emergency Operations Center (COE), which also reported that 25 villages and towns were cut off and 167 houses affected. The effects of the storm, which lost strength last night and became a Category 1 hurricane, continue to be felt, specifically in …

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Nuria Piera reports that she has received threats from the leading PLD party member and government official Euclides Gutierrez Felix, which also involve third parties. The investigative journalist complained that Gutierrez Felix threatened to sue the companies that have advertising contracts with her program, “Nuria”, if they do not stop supporting her. This conflict arose …

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The voracious fire that consumed two of the four warehouses of the Tabacalera Fuente in Villa Gonzalez could not be controlled by the forty-year old fire trucks that the fire department had to use. The trucks, which date back to 1971, could not handle the blaze in Palmar Abajo, according to a report in El …

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The daughter of the alleged mastermind behind the kidnapping and murder of journalist Jose Silvestre (Gajo) turned herself in to the Police yesterday. Raysa Nanielis Avelino Javier, whose father is Joaquin Espinal Almeyda and/or Matias Avelino Castro, who is on the run from the authorities, presented herself to the officials at the Central Directorate of …

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The latest release of Wikileaks confidential diplomatic wires focuses on the notorious drug trafficker, Quirino Ernesto Paulino Castillo, who was arrested in 2005 and convicted following a drug seizure of 1,383 kilos of cocaine, and thought to be responsible for sending thousands of kilos of drugs to the United States through the Dominican Republic. The …

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President Leonel Fernandez attended the inauguration of the nation’s first High Definition television station yesterday evening, using a touch-phone to turn on the lights of the high-tech studio. The new Telemicro studios, headed by Juan Ramon Gomez Diaz, will also carry 3-D television signals. According to Listin Diario, the station, Channel 5, will transmit this …

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In a flurry of Presidential decrees, the expected reshuffling of the bureaucracy trickles in. Diario Libre reports that by Decree 494-11, President Leonel Fernandez appointed Francisco Dominguez Brito as his Minister of Labor, replacing Max Puig, who resigned to run for office. Dominguez is a former senator for Santiago, Prosecutor General, and a pre-candidate to …

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The Ministry of Public Health has announced that paychecks would be delayed for one week for the accounting department to allow the ministry’s personnel to collect the remaining 5% pay increase that corresponds to the third and last increment that was agreed upon with the Dominican Medical Association (CMD) in July 2010. According to most …

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The Ministry of the Environment and Natural Resources has issued Resolution 11-2011 that will permit limited, controlled hunting in sorghum, corn and rice fields on weekends and holidays. An article in Listin Diario does not specify what will be hunted, but the logical conclusion is that doves, pigeons, and other birds will be the prey. …

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