2012 – Page 15

The National Archives (AGN) has computerized some 12 million images during the tenure of Professor Roberto Cassa, the director. These images cover historical events from 1607 until 1930. Cassa, an eminent historian, said that he believed that this mass digitization had taken the AGN into unknown territory, with many technical components, including new technical descriptions …

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Santo Domingo’s seafront avenue, known as the “Malecon,” as well as by its official name of George Washington Avenue, was the scene of a large demonstration organized by the Social Justice Movement in demand for an end to administrative corruption. The call was for harsher punishments for the officials in the former Fernandez administration who …

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Deputy Luisin Jimenez has answered comments made by the United States Embassy in response to his suggestion that the National Police should execute repeat offenders, saying that their country does the same with terrorists. He stated that the US Army (sic) executed Osama bin Laden as well as other Al Qaeda collaborators, and he said …

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Writing in Hoy on Saturday 8 December, spurred by escalating crime levels in the Dominican Republic, Jose Dunker points the authorities to the real causes of increase in violence. Engineer Francina Hungria lost her eyesight during a horrific attack, in broad daylight, in one of the busiest areas of the capital city. “The event cannot …

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Writing in Hoy on Saturday, 8 December, social analyst and journalist Juan Bolivar Diaz describes how the high levels of corruption and impunity in the Dominican Republic encourage crime among young people who are excluded from opportunities for a better life but also within crime-fighting organizations like the Police, the Drugs Agency (DNCD) and the …

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A long report in El Caribe tells of a major investment by Rafael Perello, manufacturer of leading Dominican coffee brand Cafe Santo Domingo, in the Eastern Massif, a slightly elevated area to the north of San Pedro de Macoris in Hato Mayor province. The report is rather romantically drawn out, using the shutdown of the …

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If there exists a model of inhumane life, the profession should be that of a “frog” working for the city government of the National District (ADN). For five thousand pesos a month, Luciano Lara, Martin Pimentel Done, Juan Antonio Suarez, Luis Catalino Arias, Geronimo Mateo Mateo, Martin Rosario Batista and Hipolito Reyes Vargas submerge themselves …

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The state of health of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who is now in Cuba to undergo a fourth cancer operation, has led to uncertainty in the Dominican Republic over the future of the Petrocaribe Agreement. The government receives 50,000 barrels of oil a day, which is financed through payment in black beans and other national …

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The National Meteorological Office (Onamet) has forecast a reasonably dry start to the working week, with only scattered showers in the northeast, southeast, the Central Mountains and along the border. The local weather is being influenced by a high-pressure area over the Atlantic and temperatures are expected to go up this week. However, conditions at …

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Over the weekend, the Dominican Winter League Baseball Championship appeared to jell the standings with the Estrellas and Aguilas on top and the Toros and Gigantes rounding out the top four that will go on to the Round Robin portion of the tournament. This means that for the first time in many, many years, there …

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