2012 – Page 225

The Global Foundation for Democracy and Development (Funglode) and the Office for Multilateral Cooperation (DIGECOOM) agreed yesterday, Monday, 7 May to create the Center for European Studies at Funglode. The plan is to strengthen academic links between the DR and European nations. During a press conference, Marco Herrera, executive director of Funglode and the National …

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The Dominican-American Round Table says that the increasing number of Dominicans seeking US government positions ranging from boards of education to the US Congress, is a clear sign of a group that has reached milestones in population, economic base, education, and public arena. DANR says that there are already 40 current elected officials of Dominican …

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The Dominican Republic has deported Troy Douglas Brimm, suspected of pedophilia in California. He was deported on flight AA680 to Miami through Las Americas International in Santo Domingo yesterday evening, Monday, 7 May. He was arrested last week in Puerto Plata where he had been living. US Marshals came to the DR to deliver Brimm …

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Roberto Lebron, spokesman for the National Drug Control Department (DNCD), announced that four boxes of mangos with at least 10 kilograms of cocaine were seized at Las Americas International Airport cargo department yesterday, Monday, 7 May. Three Dominicans, Ramon Antonio Mendez, Roberto Eloy Gonzalez and Nelson Santiago and one Haitian, Jose Medi, were arrested. The …

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The National Drug Control Department (DNCD) announced on Monday, 7 May the seizure of 175 packages of pure cocaine and the arrest of 16 people believed to belong to a drug trafficking network that operated between South America, the Dominican Republic and Eastern Europe. The shipment was confiscated from a sailboat in waters off Grenada. …

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The National Police have announced the capture and indictment of an individual said to be responsible for the disappearance of a South Korean businessman who disappeared after leaving his house on 4 April. Hak Sum Kim, 47, never returned to his house in San Cristobal, and a former employee, Niwton Montas Pimentel, is being charged …

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Even with the low-pressure trough distancing itself from the island, the Emergency Operations Center (COE) is maintaining its alerts for 19 provinces around the country. Yellow alerts remain in place for the provinces of La Vega, Monsignor Nouel (Bonao), Sanchez Ramirez (Cotui), Santiago and Duarte (San Francisco de Macoris, especially the Lower Yuna Basin). Meanwhile, …

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The Dominican women’s volleyball team is back in Santo Domingo to prepare for the FIVB Volleyball World Grand Prix games taking place in Santo Domingo from 8-10 June 2012. In the World Grand Prix, 16 teams will battle from 8-24 June to make the finals in Ningbo, China, from 27 June to 1 July. Each …

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Check out the next generation of musical talent. Festi-Band 2012, the Seventh Festival of Youth Music Bands, opens at the Palacio de Bellas Artes on Thursday, 10 May at 9am. The festival continues with shows all day and into the evening at 8pm. 10-12 May on Av. Maximo Gomez in Santo Domingo. Tel 809 687-0504. …

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President Leonel Fernandez was on the campaign trail for the PLD over the weekend. On Sunday he toured Villa Mella, Guaricanos and Sabana Perdida, three low-income mega-barrios in the Province of Santo Domingo, as reported in Listin Diario. He toured northern Santo Domingo to back the presidential candidacies of Danilo Medina and his wife, Margarita …

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