2012 – Page 11

This evening, Friday, 14 December and tomorrow Saturday, 15 December 2012, Puerto Rican salsa legend Gilberto Santa Rosa will be on stage for two gala concerts at Santo Domingo’s National Theater. Shows start at 8:30pm. For more on ongoing and upcoming events, see http://dr1.com/calendar

President Danilo Medina and First Lady Candida Montilla attended a symbolic groundbreaking ceremony on Tuesday 11 December marking the start of construction work on a new Integrated Care Center for the Disabled (Said) on Luperon Avenue at the corner with Enriquillo Avenue in Santo Domingo. The project will be built by the First Lady’s office, …

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The Ministry of Industry and Commerce and the National Council of Free Zones (CNZFE) have announced that eleven new businesses will open in Industrial Free Zones across the country along with four new industrial parks with an estimated investment of RD$729 million. Minister of Industry and Commerce Jose del Castillo Savinon said that the 11 …

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The Deputy Minister of Public Heath Networks, Dr. Nelson Rodriguez Monegro has announced that they will be setting up first aid units in the country’s larger hospitals at a cost of RD$1.7 billion in 2013. He said that this would help ease the pressure on the Dario Contreras, Luis Eduardo Aybar and Francisco Moscoso Puello …

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Today, Thursday 13 December, a judge from the Supreme Court will hear the case against the Senator from La Altagracia province, Amable Aristy Castro, who is accused of corruption during his tenure as Secretary General of the Dominican Municipal League (LMD). The Attorney General’s office has asked for him to be remanded in custody. www.eldia.com.do/nacionales/2012/12/12/101759/Juez-conocera-hoy-coercion-a-Amable

The Director of the Presidential Social Plan, Cesar Prieto, has announced that the government will begin distributing Christmas baskets to poor people throughout the country on Thursday 20 December. He said that the local authorities will be handing out 800,000 baskets at a total cost of RD$1 billion and that President Danilo Medina will not …

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During the celebration of its 34th Annual Forum in Rome, the Parliamentarians for Global Action group (PGA) unanimously elected Dominican Deputy Minou Tavarez Mirabal to chair its International Council. Deputy Victor Bisono, coordinator of the group of Dominican legislators attending the session said that the PGA is the largest international organization in the world with …

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Spanish airline Air Europa, part of the Globalia group, has agreed to a request from the Dominican government to cover the routes that will be vacated when Iberia pulls out of the country on April 1 2013. As reported in Listin Diario, the agreement was reached during a telephone call from President Danilo Medina to …

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An international drug trafficking network, headed by French citizens who reportedly recruited drug mules to send to Madrid and Paris carrying cocaine, has been broken up by the National Drug Control Agency (DNCD). The DNCD said that the gang leaders were identified as Marco Sebadoun, age 25, Sami Moussa, 26, and Josue Armando Flores Barrios, …

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Four bodies of young men were found yesterday, Wednesday 12 December in secluded areas near the Duarte highway between Bonao and Villa Altagracia. The police believe they were victims of drug-related homicides as the men were killed in execution style. Police spokesman Major General Maximo Baez Ayber told Listin Diarios that gang-related drug killings usually …

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