2012 – Page 176

Dominican gymnast Yamilet Pena won the gold medal in the senior women’s vault event at the 2012 Junior and Senior Pan-American Championships in Artistic Gymnastics held 21-24 June 2012 in Medellin, Colombia. Pena will be competing in the London Olympics. The Pan American championships featured apparatus championships for seniors, as well as team, all-around and …

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Both undefeated Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic clashed back-and-forth on Sunday, 24 June 2012 for the gold medal of the Centrobasket 2012 tournament. In a game that was decided by teamwork and free throws in the last half of the fourth quarter, the DR defeated Puerto Rico 80-72. In the middle of the fourth …

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In his speech at the United Nations conference on Sustainable Development in Rio de Janeiro, yesterday Thursday 21 June, President Leonel Fernandez called for a change in the development model which has prevailed worldwide since the Industrial Revolution some 200 years ago. He said there is a need for a new model where people produce …

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Following a suggestion by the director of the Department of Migration, Jose Ricardo Taveras that the Dominican Republic should withdraw from the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, the Minister of the Presidency, Cesar Pina Toribio, representing the Government, issued a statement yesterday, Thursday 21 June, as reported in El Nuevo Diario. The court has been …

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Following a meeting between the British Foreign Secretary William Hague and his Dominican counterpart Foreign Relations Minister Carlos Morales Troncoso in January 2012 at which they agreed to seek a Memorandum of Understanding as a way of symbolizing the growing bilateral relationship between the two countries, yesterday Thursday 21 June they signed the Memorandum on …

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As of yesterday, Thursday 21 June, agents from the National Department of Investigations (DNI) are no longer working side by side with the Immigration inspectors at the border with Haiti and in the maritime ports and airports. Migration Department director Jose Ricardo Taveras said that the change was being introduced in order to comply with …

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There is a developing movement in Las Terrenas that opposes the rebuilding of Pueblo de los Pescadores. The stretch of about 16 wooden houses within the 60-meter fringe along Las Terrenas beach burned down on Sunday 6 May due to an electric fire. The houses were built from the original wooden fishermen’s shacks. Bars and …

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The Ministry for Public Health is advising the public to stop buying medicine in the streets, via the Internet or from establishments that have not been authorized by the Ministry and said that their main priority was the health of the Dominican population. They said that buying medicines in this way could cause health problems …

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During a meeting of the Justice Commission with the drafters of the Dominican Penal Code, the president of the Commission, Demostenes Martinez stated that the changes to the Penal Code would strike a blow to criminals in the Dominican Republic. The proposed modifications include an increase in maximum jail sentences from 30 to 40 years …

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The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has welcomed a decision by the Dominican Republic to reactivate its refugee eligibility commission that reviews asylum applications. The National Refugee Commission held its first meeting since 2005 on World Refugee Day, June 13, and reviewed some 19 asylum cases. The Dominican Republic is a signatory to …

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