2012 – Page 148

Yesterday, Thursday 19 July, representatives from several community organizations started a march from Salcedo that is due to end at the National Palace in Santo Domingo, in order to demand justice for the four people who were killed during the protests in mid-June. They have left Salcedo and will go to La Vega, then to …

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A court in the Dominican Republic has sentenced 22-year old Johanna Cristal Aquino and 34-year old Jesus Maria Jaquez Tejada to 30 years in prison for killing Belgian Luc Vandormael during a robbery in October 2010. A third person was acquitted in the case. www.timescolonist.com/news/Dominican+Republic+court+sentences+couple+years+prison+killing/6960218/story.html

A tropical wave moving over from Puerto Rico in the east has caused short but intense rain showers nationwide. The forecast is for rains to continue through Saturday. The unusual weather has lowered the hot summer heat, but the gray clouds and the rains are affecting the Optimist World Championships taking place in Boca Chica. …

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Deputy Minister of Tourism Fausto Fernandez and Adalberto Rodriguez and Pamela Ortiz from Brugal and company have signed an agreement between the Ministry of Tourism and the Brugal company to hold the first Dominican Festival of Caribbean Music on the 4 and 5 August at Plaza Juan Baron on the Malecon seafront boulevard in the …

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The Second Dominican Republic Environmental Film Festival (DREFF) will take place 5-9 September 2012 in the cities of Santo Domingo, San Francisco de Macoris, Santiago, Punta Cana, Bani, Puerto Plata and Sosua. Organized by GFDD and Funglode foundations, the festival seeks to raise awareness and increase the understanding of environmental issues among Dominican audiences, while …

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Priest Francis Javer of La Caleta, Santo Domingo province, said yesterday, Wednesday 18 July that Haitians should be on their knees to ask Dominicans for forgiveness for victimizing Dominicans during 22 years of occupation (1822-1844). He was speaking at an inaugural ceremony for apartment complexes and a school in Boca Chica. Diario Libre quotes the …

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A session of the National Energy Commission held yesterday, Wednesday 18 July revealed that the cities of Santo Domingo and Santiago have strong solar power potential. CNE director Enrique Ramirez says that the report, Roadmap to a Sustainable Energy System: Harnessing the Dominican Republic’s Wind and Solar Resources from the World Watch Institute found that …

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The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) says that it has US$300 million (about RD$12 billion at current exchange rates) all ready to be disbursed as soon as Danilo Medina takes office. Manuel Labrado, the IDB representative in Santo Domingo said on Wednesday, 18 July that the international credit institution is only awaiting the verifications from the …

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Dr. Bernardo Defillo, a former superintendent of Public Health and a prominent figure in medical circles, has noted a few items that Danilo Medina needs to include on his agenda when he takes the reins of power on 16 August. Defillo, quoted in an article by Altagracia Ortiz in Hoy newspaper, says that one of …

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The director of the Center for Exports and Investment (CEI-RD), Eddy Martinez, defended the export of scrap metals on Wednesday 18 July, saying that so far this year the sector has generated US$173 million for the country, a sum ten times greater than what it receives from coffee. Last year scrap metal exports produced US$169 …

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