2012 – Page 197

Diario Libre is running a series of detailed reports on mining, mining concessions and the potential environmental and social consequences. In today’s report, Thursday May 31, they describe how the people of El Dajao, on the frontier between Santiago Rodriguez and Elias Pina provinces, in the shadow of Culo de Maco Mountain are worried about …

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And in another newspaper today, the GoldQuest Mining Corporation has announced the discovery of a major gold and copper deposit in the area around Hondo Valle in the province of Elias Pina. The news, as reported by Hoy newspaper, set off a flurry of buying and selling of shares on the company on the Toronto …

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Listin Diario reports that more than fifty companies, two of the major electricity generators and more than 6,500 vehicles in the Dominican Republic are using natural gas, establishing the fuel as a solid market in the country. With as much as a 70% saving by switching from gasoline to natural gas (NGV) a car owner …

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The Industrial Association of the Dominican Republic (AIRD) has asked the government to postpone the application of new regulations for contracting foreign labor, due to go into effect tomorrow, Friday, 1 June. In the meantime, today, Thursday 31 May, a meeting is being held between the Director of Immigration, Jose Ricardo Taveras and the agro-business …

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Dozens of voter registration cards and personal identification cards known as “cedulas” were found by Santiago municipal workers in the sewers in the area of the Los Platanitos barrio in the lower part of the city. El Nuevo Diario reports that this is the area near the Gran Arena, the baseball field and the IDSS, …

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The PRD Political Commission was convened for tomorrow, Friday 1 June, according to Andres Bautista, interim party president, and Geanilda Vasquez, organizational secretary. The meeting will be held at the Hotel Santo Domingo, at 4pm, and according to Vasquez, if Miguel Vargas does not attend, Bautista and general secretary Orlando Jorge Mera will chair the …

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The spokesman for the PRSC bloc of deputies, Ramon Rogelio Genao, is aspiring to lead the Chamber of Deputies as of 16 August, as part of the bill that the Reformists will send to the ruling PLD. The PRSC was an ally of the PLD in the recent elections and for this reason, Genao and …

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The Chief of the National Police, Major General Jose Armando Polanco Gomez says that he believes that a 30-year sentence would not be not out of the question for Luis Rafael Diaz Mora, who killed a business partner over a debt last Tuesday, 29 May, in the middle of Bella Vista Mall in Santo Domingo. …

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Soprano Ivonne Haza sang the National Anthem at a memorial event held yesterday, Wednesday 30 May, for the heroes who executed dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, on 30 May 1961. The event took place in front of the monument erected on the spot where the tyrant fell as he was shot on the Sanchez Highway. The …

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Casa de Teatro in Santo Domingo’s Colonial City has announced the start of its annual jazz festival for Thursday, 14 June, continuing every Thursday through 26 July. The Santo Domingo Jazz Festival is a summer musical tradition that brings leading jazz musicians and singers to auditorium and Bar Cafe Teatro at Casa de Teatro. Aquiles …

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