2012 – Page 194

The National Drug Control Department (DNCD) seized over RD$3.9 million and US$425,480 in cash yesterday, Monday 4 June, during a search carried out in a Santo Domingo East clothing store. The business was supposedly used to launder the cash. During the first search, the DNCD authorities found RD$3,956,190 and US$387,580 all in cash. In another …

Read more…

Judges, lawyers, prosecutors, victims and the accused are concerned for their lives because of repeated incidents of physical aggression at the Federico Alvarez Palace of Justice in the city of Santiago. These incidents are the result of a lack of a police presence at the courts in the judicial district. The most recent case occurred …

Read more…

Two minors were killed and three wounded by a large tractor-trailer that crashed into a building housing a colmado and an Internet center in the Santo Domingo slum neighborhood of La Cienega, along the stretch of the Francisco Alberto Caamano Deno Avenue known as Respaldo La Marina. The young boy was identified as Antony Fernandez, …

Read more…

The Dominican basketball team is training at the University of Kentucky under Wildcats coach John Calipari for their important challenge of trying to be one of three teams to make the London Olympics basketball tournament. The DR will compete in the Caracas, Venezuela qualifier in early July. But while University of Kentucky Coach Cal hones …

Read more…

The president of the Dominican Chess Federation, Pedro Dominguez Brito has announced the celebration of a chess tournament with more than 25,000 players competing along a 5km stretch of the Malecon seafront boulevard in Santo Domingo. The event is planned for 12 August. The Embassy of Taiwan is co-sponsoring the event with a donation of …

Read more…

President Leonel Fernandez spent his weekend inaugurating several works including churches and aqueducts, sewage plants and other waterworks in addition to a sports pavilion, according to the Presidency. Public works inaugurated over the weekend were: Rincon Aqueduct, La Vega, RD$55,067,011.23 Ranchito aqueduct, La Vega, RD$42,760,440.84 Samana jail and military station sewage treatment plant, RD$17,170,883.29 Janico …

Read more…

The Dominican Republic has a first class volleyball facility. Engineer Ramon Salcedo project manager for the Supervisory Office of Public Works of the Presidency (OISOE) said that the government has invested RD$60 million in the Juan Pablo Duarte Olympic Center Volleyball Pavilion to bring it up to par with world-class volleyball facilities. The pavilion, which …

Read more…

The Senate (and the Chamber of Deputies) took off almost two months from their legislative work to concentrate on politics during the presidential campaign. Hoy newspaper says that the bills dormant in Congress include the creation of the Anti-Corruption Participative Initiative (IPAC) that has been languishing in the Senate Justice Commission for the past few …

Read more…

The open dispute between the Hipolito Mejia and Miguel Vargas factions in the PRD continued over the weekend. The supporters of former PRD candidate and former President Hipolito Mejia met on Friday and decided to suspend party president Miguel Vargas Maldonado and expel several of his followers. But the National Executive Committee (CEN) of the …

Read more…

A company described as of Spanish capital, Corporacion Delta Intur has become the first to taint the Dominican Stock Market (Bolsa Valores de RD) that trades in commercial paper. El Dia reports that on 30 May, the general director of Corporacion Delta Intur, Julio Vega informed stock market superintendent Guarocuya Feliz that it would not …

Read more…