2012 – Page 201

Coinciding with the increase in the business of politics and political patronage, voter abstention is on the rise. In an analysis today, Monday, 28 May, in El Caribe, PRD economic advisor Andres Dauhajre examines the increase in voter abstention since 1994, turning non-voters into practically the third “political” force in the Dominican Republic. In the …

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Haitians are divided over the advantages or disadvantages of signing a free trade agreement with the DR. President-elect Danilo Medina is in favor of motivating Haiti to sign a free trade agreement. As reported in Haiti Libre online, Jean Robert Argand, a former president of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Haiti said that …

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A new recently launched service seeks to expand popular online services to low-income mobile subscribers in the DR. Mobile network operator, Viva, is offering the new service, called vSocial, to its 700,000 subscribers. The service enables regular handsets to use ‘internet-free apps’ to send and receive Internet messaging on any GSM phone with SMS. “People …

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David Joel Toribio Guridis (aka Toribio Lugo or El Big Papi) and Catherine Matos Morales have been sent to preventive custody for a year. The couple is accused of the murder of Colombian Maribel Buritica, 34. While a Canadian, Gordon Wilson was initially suspected for having had a restraining order against him issued by the …

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The Police have yet to report on the incident, but it is known that a five-year old boy fired the shot that killed Arsenio Diaz Rodriguez, 53, who had returned to the DR after being deported from the US where he had spent 10 years in jail for drug trafficking. Listin Diario says that Diaz …

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A grenade being handled by a former army member exploded killing two and injuring two others in Villa Altagracia on Sunday, 27 May. The deceased were identified as Wilfredo Polanco, a former soldier who was handling the grenade in the patio of his house, and Francis Paula Diroche, 13, who did not make it to …

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A report published today, Monday, 28 May, documenting crime rates in the Province of Santo Domingo and National District (city of Santo Domingo) shows Santo Domingo East with the highest levels. So far this year the municipality has reported 25 murders, two femicides, 29 robberies, 16 injuries and 111 people arrested up to 30 April …

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Dominican 400m runner Luguelin Santos is becoming a more serious Olympic gold medal contender by the day. Over the weekend, in his most recent international meet at the FBK Games in Hengelo, the leading annual track and field event in the Netherlands, he won with a stunning time of 44.45 seconds. Santos, 19, set his …

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2004 Olympic champion Felix Sanchez of the Dominican Republic continued his quest for another Olympic gold medal with a winning run in the men’s 400m hurdles at the Meeting International Mohammed VI d’Athletisme in Rabat, Morocco on Sunday, 27 May. The event brought together 113 athletes competing in 17 events, and about 30 former medalists …

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Slugger Melky Cabrera, 27, turned out to be too much for the Marlins, helping the San Francisco Giants defeat the Miami team on Sunday. Cabrera is the Major League leader in hits. On Sunday he added four more to his total. “Melky was the one-man show this week,” Dominican Marlins manager Ozzie Guillen said. “He …

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