2012 – Page 165

The National Drug Control Department (DNCD) has confiscated 722 packages of cocaine weighing a total 767.38 kilograms, part of a consignment being transported in speedboats in an operation that took place at the mouth of the Soco River, involving boats and helicopters. Four Dominicans were arrested: Miguel Zapata de La Rosa, Roberto Octavio Pena Cordero, …

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After occupying the Administrative Vice Rectory at the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo (UASD) for several hours in protest at the increase of fees, students left the area but warned they would not give up the fight. A door was broken and a security guard was injured during the protest. On Monday, July 2, the …

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Speaking on the program Cuentas Claras, sociologist Celedonio Jimenez and psychiatrist Carlos de los Angeles said that certain aspects of the Dominican Republic’s socioeconomic model are contributing to the increase in violence. They said that the social structure, especially the inequality has led to an increase in violence, highlighting the fact that the minimum wage …

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Today is the 30th anniversary of the suspected suicide of President Silvestre Antonio Guzman Fernandez of the PRD, who died 43 days before his term of office was over on July 4, 1982. Guzman Fernandez, who is described a modest, straightforward and likeable man, is remembered by Dominicans as one of the best presidents who …

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On Saturday June 30 three Dominicans were killed in a traffic accident in Miami. The victims have been identified as Esther Terrero de Diaz, 53, her daughter Adriana Maria Diaz, 13 and her grandson Franklin Abraham Diaz, 14. Also injured were Magdeline Esther Diaz aged 10, who is in the Jackson Memorial hospital. The accident …

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The National Weather Center (Onamet) is warning that a tropical wave, currently east of the Lesser Antilles, will increase the chances of rain on Thursday and Friday, mainly in the east, northeast, southeast, Caribbean coast, Cibao region and central mountain range. Whilst temperatures will stay high, with the wind from the east, there are chances …

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The Dominican Republic basketball team is fighting for one of the three slots to the Olympics that are at stake at the Caracas World Basketball Qualifier. In the closely contested game that the Dominicans eventually won 95-85 to South Korea, El Caribe focused on the loving support the Dominican Republic’s only Miss Universe Amelia Vega …

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Santo Domingo residents could soon be riding the second line of the metro. As reported in El Dia, Leonel Carrasco, spokesman for the Opret office in charge of the construction, said that seven new cars had recently arrived of a total of 45 that will run on the line. The second line was originally intended …

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Tomorrow, Wednesday 4 July, Public Health officials will embark on a vaccination campaign that seeks to immunize 426,000 babies between the ages of two and four months against rotovirus, the cause of severe diarrhea in children. According to the Minister of Public Health, Bautista Rojas Gomez, this type of diarrhea is the second leading cause …

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State institutions that pay high salaries, such as the banks (Central, Agriculture, Reservas, Housing etc.) as well as the Department of Taxes, and the Superintendence of Banks, have all asked the Senate commission that is studying a legislative proposal to impose controls on salaries in the Public Administration to leave out their entities. According to …

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