2011 – Page 79

Because of the imminent passing of Tropical Storm Emily, the Dave Valentin jazz concert at the National Theater has been suspended. Those who have purchased tickets need to seek a refund. He was due to perform with Sandy Gabriel & the Puerto Plata Jazz Ensemble and percussionist Guarionex Aquino at 8:30pm tonight. The inaugural event …

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An agreement signed by the Ministry of the Environment and the National Institute of Potable Water and Sewers (INAPA) yesterday commits them to working together to preserve the nation’s watersheds and forests. Environment Minister Jaime David Fernandez Mirabal and INAPA head Mariano German signed the agreement and told Listin Diario that they would work together …

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Your electricity rates will not go up this month, according to the Superintendence of Electricity (SIE). The Superintendence said that the government would postpone the increase until September. The 2.04% increase that is due to be applied would raise an estimated RD$1.36 billion, says the Superintendence. The SIE says that all of the variables went …

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The Agro-Business Board (JAD) and its board of directors said yesterday that they support the stance taken by the national banana sector on the use of the port of Manzanillo. The JAD said that they have been working since 1989 with the rebuilding and refurbishing of the port together with the reactivation of the nation’s …

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At a meeting held yesterday with the Minister of Agriculture, poultry farmers suggested that the price of a pound of chicken should not be higher than RD$49 a pound. This does not tally with prices at retail sales points in the poorer barrios. In markets and supermarkets a pound of chicken sells for RD$50 and …

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An average, middle-class school, for an average, middle-class family could set parents back between RD$15,000 and RD$23,000 pesos per student, a heavy burden and headache for most parents this time of the year. The list of expenditures is headed each year by new textbooks, usually eliminating the possibility of hand-me-down books. Then there are the …

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The rector of the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo (UASD), Mateo Aquino Febrillet, confirmed yesterday that they are exploring the possibility of using the recently inaugurated parking garage for teaching, provisionally, in the upcoming semester that begins 15 August. The measure would relocate students who attend lectures in the Engineering and Judicial Sciences faculties, whose …

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A professor of History at the UASD in Santo Domingo has filed a complaint with the District Attorney for the National District after receiving death threats from two female students who failed her course. The History professor said that she was threatened by students who received grades of 56 and 57, but she did not …

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Six of Jose David Figueroa Agosto’s running buddies have pleaded guilty before a federal judge for bringing at least 150 kilos of cocaine from the Dominican Republic to Puerto Rico, according to a report in the Puerto Rican newspaper El Nuevo Dia. The story says that Elier Martinez Delgado, Hector Ramos Rosado, brothers Jonathan and …

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A very thorough article in today’s Diario Libre traces the lives of several very young boys named Raul, Luis and Carlos, who were either forced by relatives to sell drugs or carry drugs or induced by relatives to try drugs and who then became “consumers.” Uncles, fathers and brothers who are now all in prison …

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