2012 – Page 217

The Dominican Conference of Bishops (CED) is calling on Catholics, the non-Catholic Christian communities and all the men and women of goodwill to take part in a Day of Prayer next Saturday 19 May. The idea of the Day of Prayer is to ask the Lord for an election day that is peaceful, harmonious and …

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Campos de Moya, vice president of Communications and institutional relations for the Vicini Group has been named president of the British Chamber of Commerce for the period 2012-2014. He pledged to continue strengthening relations between both countries. “It is very important for our country that the commercial ties with the United Kingdom continue to grow …

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The Dominican Republic is no longer a haven for Dominican criminals trying to evade justice in the United States. On Monday, 14 May the Second Penal Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice (SCJ) ordered the extradition of two Dominicans who are facing charges of drug trafficking and homicide. Magistrate Miriam German Brito ordered the …

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A Santo Domingo criminal court has sentenced former director of the fraud division PRA at the Public Electricity Corporation (CDEEE), Marcos Lara Lorenzo for misappropriation of a proven RD$52 million. He was sentenced to four years in prison and a penalty of RD$1 million. The case was denounced on TV by journalist Nuria Piera in …

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The Chief of the National Police has confirmed that the killers of a retired captain in the Air Force and his family were former members of the Police who had been dishonorably dismissed from the force last year and sent to the Justice Department on armed robbery charges. Both Modesto Esmerling Gonzalez Quezada (Blondy) and …

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The Emergency Operations Center (COE) is maintaining its Green Alert for seven provinces due to the risk of flash flooding and landslides. These provinces are Duarte (San Francisco de Macoris, especially the Lower Yuna Basin), La Vega, Monsignor Nouel (Bonao), Sanchez Ramirez (Cotui), Hermanas Mirabal (Salcedo), Santiago (including Tamboril and Navarrete) and Espaillat (Moca). The …

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Photojournalist Damaso Reyes, a Dominican who grew up in Brooklyn, New York and now lives in Barcelona has been getting good reviews for his different viewpoints of immigrants in the world. A recent New York Times story focuses on his work in Austria, the Netherlands, the UK, Spain and Germany as part of his ambitious …

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The “Dominican Nerd Herd”, computer programmers, will take part in the final phase of the International University Computer Programming Competition being held by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACMICPC) where only 100 teams out of 4,000 entries can take part. According to Listin Diario, the students from Intec (the Technological Institute of Santo Domingo), Carlos …

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President Leonel Fernandez was in La Romana on Friday, 11 May to inaugurate public works worth RD$355 million, including four schools and three sports pavilions built by the government. Fernandez inaugurated the new Club Deportivo Ramon Marrero Aristy, two churches and newly paved streets in 10 barrios. The schools built by the Ministry of Education …

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The administrator of the Banco de Reservas, Vicente Bengoa says that a note where the IMF supposedly details new taxes and charges for future application is a fake. He said the PRD is using it to discredit the PLD. In a press release, he said that the documents show the information as dated 13 December …

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