2012 – Page 155

With the theme of “see the world one drawing at a time,” some 100 Urban Sketchers from 16 countries are in the Colonial City of Santo Domingo for this year’s Urban Sketching Symposium. The event began on Thursday and wraps up on Saturday as part of the 36th World Wide SketchCrawl. Around a hundred artists …

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Dominican track and field star Luguelin Santos has won gold in the 400 meters race in the IAAF World Junior Championships that are taking place in Barcelona. For him, the event is a tune up for the London Olympics in which he is a top-seeded competitor. Some 178 countries and 1,74 athletes (964 men and …

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113-59 was the final score of the tune-up the US national basketball team played against the Dominican national team in Las Vegas, Nevada on 12 July. The US team is considered the best team in the world and needs to prove this against the world’s best at the London Olympics. The US team will now …

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The Dominican men’s team has made it to the semifinals of the 7th Pan American Men’s Volleyball Cup being played at the Juan Pablo Duarte Olympic Center Volleyball Pavilion. The Dominicans defeated Mexico 23-25, 25-19, 25-21, and 30-28 in a very exciting match. Best players were Elvis Contreras, Jose Caceres and Elnis Palomino. The DR …

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The story of Ana, a poor woman who struggles to make a living and has to deal with crime and corruption is told in this premiere of a new Dominican film at the Teatro las Canas, in Cap Cana, Punta Cana. The film, which has a hope-filled ending, is directed by Bladimir Abud and stars …

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The Senate declared the legislation urgent and approved the Complementary Budget proposal in two readings yesterday, Wednesday 11 July. The complementary budget is designed to meet the fiscal deficit the government ran up during the months leading to the 20 May presidential election. This proposal modifies the expenditures of the current fiscal year by RD$71.5 …

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The Minister of Education joined representatives of educational organizations and business and community leaders in Punta Cana yesterday, Wednesday July 11 to identify the educational needs of the region. She noted that four new schools were required in the areas of Punta Cana and Veron. According to Hoy reporter Rosa Alcantara, Minister Josefina Pimentel said: …

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Using the slogan “There is a time to be a father and a mother” the Public Health authorities, together with the United Nations Population Fund, has launched a campaign to prevent teen pregnancies in the province of Azua. A recent study by the UNPFA shows that 37% of teenage girls in Azua are, or have …

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Minister of Labor Francisco Dominguez Brito met with the head of the Social Security Commission of the Senate on Wednesday, 11 July to ask for the ratification of International Labor Organization Agreement 189 on decent working conditions for domestic workers. The agreement is the first international labor regulation aimed at improving working conditions for tens …

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In what should be startling news, Sergia Galvan from the Women’s Health Collective said that 65,000 women have complained of abuse in the first six months of the year. In a report in today’s Hoy newspaper, Cynthia Abreu describes a demonstration held yesterday, Wednesday 11 July outside the National Congress where they met with resistance …

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