2011 – Page 69

The National Meteorological Office (Onamet) maintained its green alert for overflowing rivers, streams and creeks, flash flooding, and landslides from the effects of the tropical storm that was over Puerto Rico last night. According to forecaster Yhony Gomez, the storm is expected to enter over Dominican territory by 2pm today and that rainfall levels might …

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The Dominican Republic national basketball team defeated the Pros, the team of a selection of Kentucky college players in the NBA in two exhibition games held over the weekend in Kentucky. The game served to prove the DR team training carried out by University of Kentucky coach, John Calipari is paying off. The DR team …

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The acrobatical theater performances of Cirque Eloize open in Santo Domingo at the National Theater tonight. Rain, the show, takes us back to the innocence of childhood through a theatrical circus. The “animal-less” circus, following the tradition that was born and established in French-speaking Canada by the creators of Cirque du Soleil Cirque Eloize. The …

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The DR1 Daily News digest will not be updated tomorrow, on the occasion of the August 16th Restoration Day holiday. The holiday marks the day Spain returned the government to Dominican control in 1865. Since this year it falls on a Tuesday, it created a long weekend for anyone who could take an extra day …

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Colombian Foreign Affairs Minister Maria Angela Holguin was in the Dominican Republic last week to push for the start of talks aimed at reaching a fully-fledged free trade agreement with the DR. In the short term, Colombia aspires to a partial scope trade agreement with the DR. The DR maintains a similar agreement with Panama. …

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The Central Bank reports that the Consumer Price Index was up by 0.85% in July. Inflation in the first seven months of the year is 6.75, and when calculated on an annual basis from July 2010 to July 2011 it totals 9.87%.

Tourism consultant Tomas Hungria says that 2010 tourism statistics show that the Dominican Republic received more than four million tourist arrivals and an estimated US$4 billion in tourism receipts, and that there are 67,000 hotel rooms in the Dominican Republic. But at the same time, he said it was apparent there has been a slowdown …

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The Dominican Republic is installing the latest global technology for the management, transportation and distribution and the installation of fuel converters for industries and vehicles nationwide. Carlos Jose Marti, of Marti Petroleum Group (Tropigas), one of the leading fuel companies in the Dominican Republic said Dominicans have been sent abroad for training in matters related …

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The most recent WikiLeaks cable from the confidential files of the US Embassy in the Dominican Republic, dated 13 July 2007 is a request for B1/B2 revocation of the Dominican consul in Hong Kong Casilda Teonilde Casado de Cheung, her husband Pak Shing Cheung, her children Yin Mey, Yin Ney, Sheung Leung and Jean Ney …

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International and Dominican authorities suspect that the Santiago-based cigar exporter, Cesar Teofilo Soriano Salazar, arrested two weeks ago for his involvement in the aborted shipment of 419 kilos of cocaine to Spain had ties to anti-narcotics agents in Spain. El Dia reports that intelligence services learned that he held telephone conversations with Spanish anti-drug agents …

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