2012 – Page 235

The Weather Office (Onamet) reports that rain accompanied by wind gusts and thunder and lightning will continue over much of the national territory. As reported, a stationary front located over the country is interacting with a low-pressure trough over Haiti that is moving slowly westward. Onamet says the rains will continue gradually improving by Saturday, …

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Runner-up Dulcita Lieggi was crowned Miss Dominican Republic candidate for Miss Universe at the AMG Cafe of Auto Ozama, local reps for Mercedes Benz, one of the pageant’s sponsors. The 22-year old replaces Carlina Duran, who was dethroned after it was confirmed she had been married. Miss Universe rules call for candidates to never have …

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Ania Paz has coordinated an event for the Santo Domingo Book Fair that presents migrant musicians, singers, plastic artists and dancers in one show at the National Theater this Friday, 27 April at 7:30pm. The event is sponsored by the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) in the Dominican Republic. Free admission.

See Pop n with the National Ballet, choreography by Isadora Bruno and Carlos Veitia, directed by Marinella Sallent. Dancers of the national ballet perform to the music of The Beatles and Juan Luis Guerra on Friday, 27 April, and Saturday 28 April at 8:30pm, and on Sunday, 29 April at 7pm. Tickets: RD$300. The show …

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The construction of a new highway linking the Cibao with the south of the country will begin today, Wednesday 25 April, in the presence of President Leonel Fernandez and the Minister of Public Works, Victor Diaz Rua. The new road will go from the Cruce de Piedra Blanca and Juan Adrian, in Monsenor Nouel province, …

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Haitian and Dominican government representatives are meeting in Santo Domingo to discuss bilateral development projects that can be funded by international organizations, reports Hoy newspaper. Economy, Planning and Development Minister Temistocles Montas said that they could include health, environment, immigration, security, tourism and culture-related projects, development of the frontier area, energy generation and sport. The …

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The presidents of Claro and the Central Electoral Board (JCE), Roberto Rosario and Oscar Pena, met yesterday, Tuesday 24 April, to discuss specific details of the broadcasting of the results of the election on 20 May. Following the meeting, Pena pledged that the network would be ready to identify and check and they were ready …

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In a televised presentation hosted by the Corripio media group on TeleAntillas (Channel 2) and TeleSistema (Channel 11), PLD presidential candidate Danilo Medina pledged that his government would introduce a code of ethics and morality in public administration and any government official who public rumor or the press accuses of corruption would be publicly questioned …

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An operation headed by the Central Electoral Board’s cedula issuing unit director Americo Rodriguez, together with electoral military personnel and directed by the JCE is launching a series of raids on the homes of people who have taken out between two and four and even up to twenty national identity cards, known as cedulas. According …

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Today, 25 April, the country marks the 47th anniversary of the 1965 April Revolution when a group of PRD members, headed by Francisco Alberto Caamano, and known as Constitutionalists, took the National Palace and installed Jose Rafael Molina Urena as provisional president. They were fighting to return former President Juan Bosch to office and wanted …

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