2012 – Page 238

Dominican expats living in Canada will not be able to vote for overseas deputies in the 20 May elections. The new legislators posts were created in the 2010 Constitution. Registered voters in Canada, with a universe of 2,697, are only authorized to vote for the next President and Vice President of the Dominican Republic in …

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Writing in today’s El Caribe, economist Roberto Despradel lists the challenges ahead for industry in the DR. He compares the DR to export-based countries like Taiwan, South Korea, Chile and Colombia where growth has been closely tied to increases in exports, in contrast with the DR, where imports are in the lead. During the Second …

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The Dominican College of Journalists (CDP) and the Press Workers Union (SNTP), the country’s two leading journalist associations, have announced the celebration of a solidarity event in support of Nuria Piera at the CDP building in Centro de los Heroes in Santo Domingo today, Monday, 23 April, at 7pm. Aurelio Henriquez of the CDP and …

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The National Drug Control Department (DNCD) has announced the arrest and deportation of a Canadian who was being sought for at least 22 counts of trafficking in cocaine and gun possession. Oliver A. Willis was arrested when he was released from Najayo jail where he had been since February 2010. He was in preventive custody …

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Michael Brown, a British fugitive who hid in Punta Cana from UK authorities/Interpol for three years, was deported to Spain yesterday, Sunday, 22 April. A 10-day procedure needs to be followed to extradite him from Spain to Britain. He is accused of fraud totaling over 60 million pounds in Europe. He also made headlines for …

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The Police has announced the arrest of a 19-year old former Dominican Air Force private who they say has confessed to stabbing 60-year old engineer Antonio Turull Duluc, who died last Tuesday, as reported in El Caribe. Turull managed to drive himself to the Abreu Clinic, but died of his wounds shortly after arriving. The …

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A California woman, Julie Villarini, who had recently lost her husband turned her grief into an entrepreneurship project with her nephew, Courtland Palmer in the Dominican Republic. The son of US celebrity chef Charlie Palmer, Courtland Palmer raised US$90,000 to set up a bakery, Panaderia Tio Russ, for orphaned and destitute girls living at the …

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Initial news reports from Australia focus on the successful “A Son de Guerra” concerts by Juan Luis Guerra in Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney. Guerra, who has sold more than 30 million records worldwide, sings merengue, bachata, salsa, bolero and Latin pop in Spanish and performed to mixed Latin and Australian audiences. Sitting in the front …

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The Weather Department (Onamet) forecasts that rains will continue this week due to a front that is moving this way from Cuba. An Onamet spokesman said that heavy rains would fall on Tuesday 24, Wednesday 25 and Thursday 26 April nationwide, especially in the central mountain range, the north, northwest and northeast. He said Dominicans …

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Dominican merengue star Kinito Mendez is giving a free concert at the Teatro Arena/Nereyda Rodriguez at the Santo Domingo Book Fair. The concert, which is scheduled to close events for tonight, Monday 23 April, starts at 9pm. The book fair continues in Santo Domingo through 6 May with cultural events throughout the day until late …

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