2012 – Page 198

For children’s The Wizard of Oz and a selection of all time favorite musicals performed by students of the AFA arts academy is also scheduled for this weekend. Don’t miss the Goya award-winning films at the Cinemateca Dominicana in the Plaza de la Cultura this weekend, 2 and 3 June. It will also feature the …

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Yesterday, Tuesday May 29, President Leonel Fernandez inaugurated the Mario Ortega Pavilion in the municipality of San Francisco de Macoris, built at a cost of over RD$54 million. President Fernandez said that he has inaugurated more than 60 vital works in Duarte province since 26 January and more than 200 since 2004. He said the …

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Yesterday, Tuesday 29 May, Interior and Police Minister Jose Ramon Fadul announced he was working on a plan to gradually disarm the population, aimed at controlling the levels of violence in the country, especially domestic violence. Listin Diario quotes him as saying that violence had increased this year, mentioning a recent case where a child …

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Over the last few days, basic mass-consumption products such as sugar, beans, eggs, chicken, garlic and onions have gone up in price, Diario Libre reports. In markets in the capital, the price of a pound of sugar has increased from RD$17 to RD$18, a pound of beans has risen from RD$34 and RD$36 to between …

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Former presidential candidate Hipolito Mejia is opposed to expulsions of PRD members who are accused of conspiring against the organization and contributing to the triumph of Danilo Medina in the 20 May elections, according to a report in Listin Diario. At a meeting of the heads of the municipal districts, he said that he deplored …

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Today, Wednesday May 30 is the 51st anniversary of the death of former Dominican dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo. According to El Caribe, the man who subjected the country to one of the fiercest dictatorships in Latin America reappeared during the recent electoral campaign when Hipolito Mejia compared his rule to what he described as “the …

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Leading US media are carrying the AP wire story about the Bicknell thrush (Zorzal in Spanish), a tiny songbird, and the way conservationists from the US and the Dominican Republic have come together to inspire others with a new model for nature reserves. US investors have acquired a large plot, now known as Reserva Privada …

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According to the Toronto Globe and Mail, Canadian businessman Derek Elliott has been issued with a complaint from the US Securities and Exchange Commission that he and his former US business associate, James Catledge were behind an international fraudulent scheme. Elliott ran the Sun Village Resort & Spa near Puerto Plata until 2009. The SEC …

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On Monday, 28 May the United States of America celebrated Memorial Day to honor veterans and soldiers killed in wars. Dominican soldiers who fell in conflict were honored during ceremonies celebrated in Upper Manhattan organized by families and friends. The first Dominican-American soldier to die in Iraq was Ryan Tejeda who was killed on 11 …

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Listin Diario reports that yesterday, Tuesday 29 May at around noon, quadruplets, three boys and a girl were born in Plaza de la Salud hospital to a 24-year old woman, Braudilia Montero Dotel. The babies, all weighing between three and four pounds, are two pairs of twins born by caesarean section at 35 weeks of …

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