2012 – Page 200

In the Santo Domingo neighborhood of El Manguito, only 30 out of 2000 residents used to pay for their electricity. However, the new pre-payment system has changed the attitude of the people who live between Winston Churchill and Abraham Lincoln avenues. Six hundred families already have the new pay-as-you-go meters and they can receive electricity …

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Economist Miguel Ceara Hatton (Mickey) said yesterday, Monday 28 May, that he is opposed to any tax reform this year. He asked why the government would create a tax reform since they knew the electoral spending would increase the fiscal deficit. He stated that the fiscal deficit so far this year exceeds RD$48 billion pesos. …

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The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Justice, Mariano German Mejia, has issued a call to the country’s penal court judges to act prudently as they hand down decisions on preventive custody. He said that judges needed to be prudent “during all stages” of their decision-making process. The pronouncement comes at a time, according …

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All today’s newspapers report on the scene in Bella Vista Mall in Santo Domingo where one man killed another alledgedly over a debt of over a million pesos yesterday, Monday 28 May. The victim was Edwin Mateo, 38, and a man reported to be his close friend, Luis Rafael Diaz Mora, 39, apparently shot him. …

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Police in San Francisco de Macoris have arrested a man who gave a five-year old boy a loaded gun and told him to “scare” a man who was supposed to arrive at the child’s home. The little boy did as told and killed Arsenio Diaz Rodriguez, 53, as he approached the house. The man under …

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The Mobil1 Autodrome off Las Americas Expressway announces that this weekend sees the start of the Michelin Grand Prix of Car Racing, an event organized by the Mobil1 Autodrome and the Dominican Car Racing Circuit Club (CDCC). The Formula 1 style races will take place on Saturday and Sunday. Marcos Pichardo, president of CDCC forecast …

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Mexican singer Ana Gabriel will record her new CD and DVD at the Altos de Chavon amphitheater. She invited Dominicans to be there for the filming, on Saturday, 9 June at 7:30pm. “I am very excited,” she told El Dia. “Altos de Chavon is a lovely and magical place, and the Dominican people are known …

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First Lady and Vice President-elect Margarita Cedeno filled the Palacio de los Deportes with women on Sunday, to celebrate Mother’s Day. Listin Diario reports there were scuffles and long lines as the women queued up to receive gifts and presents that were part of the event. During the event, the complete refurnishing of 10 households …

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Political analysts say that despite winning the presidency in the May election, the ruling PLD party has been losing the support of Dominican voters. As reported in today’s El Caribe, in 2004 the party won with 57.11% of the vote, but since then voter support to the party has slid 11.29%, not taking into account …

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Political analyst Juan Bolivar Diaz wrapped up the elections in his report in Hoy on Sunday, 27 May. His conclusion is that the state won out again, describing how the ruling party assembled an electoral machine that crushed all that it found in its way, thanks to the vote of 13 allied parties that were …

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