2012 – Page 247

At a press conference last night, Thursday, 12 April, the Dominican and Haitian governments accused former Colonel Pedro Julio (Pepe) Goico of hatching a plot designed to destabilize and overthrow the government of Haitian President Michel Martelly, and condemned the action as criminal, conspiring and seditious, endangering the peace, order and tranquility of the Haitian …

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The PLD is seeking to capitalize on a 2004 video where then-President Hipolito Mejia on the re-election campaign trail in the Bronx, New York mentions President Barack Obama, referring to his African heritage. Yesterday, the Senate issued a declaration signed by 31 of the 32 senators, apologizing to the President of the United States, Barak …

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The Hipolito Mejia campaign has released a booklet with listings comparing the situation in the country in 2004 at the end of the Mejia administration and today. The booklet, distributed with Listin Diario, highlights that Dominicans pay three times more taxes, and the foreign debt is 2.5 times greater than in 2004. “But instead of …

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Yesterday, a group of around 60 people demanding that the Central Electoral Board (JCE) issue them with Dominican ID and voting cards (cedulas), protested outside the JCE building causing a large traffic jam at the intersection of Luperon Avenue and 27 Febrero, a major Santo Domingo traffic hub. The Movement for Recognition, made up from …

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National District prosecutor Yeni Berenice Reynoso has called for reforms in national and international policies for the prevention and prosecution of money laundering. She said that organized crime has no borders, as reported in Listin Diario. “Organized crime is now global; its prosecution nevertheless is undertaken on a national level since to obtain international cooperation …

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Just 200 days to go for the opening of the doors of Sambil, the biggest shopping center in the Dominican Republic and the Caribbean, say its promoters. This is a well-known name for shopping, services and entertainment, said the president of the project, Alfredo Cohen Kohn, during a visit to Diario Libre director Adriano Miguel …

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The chief of the Navy, vice admiral Nicolas Cabrera Arias said that the boat trip at La Vacama in La Altagracia (Punta de Coco) was aborted as a result of an intelligence operation. He said 29 people who had attempted to travel to Puerto Rico were arrested, as reported in Listin Diario. Cabrera Arias said …

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The National District Public Prosecutor’s office has re-launched its web site, Twitter and Facebook sites and has a virtual classroom with online judicial debates. All publications on the site will go automatically to Facebook and Twitter including a list of all fugitives from justice in the National District. www.listindiario.com/la-republica/2012/4/13/228659/La-Fiscalia-del-Distrito-relanza-su-pagina-web-y-redes

The Minister of the Interior and Police, Jose Ramon Fadul, the Minister of the Armed Forces, Lieutenant General Joaquin Virgilio Perez Feliz, the head of the National Police, Major General Jose Armando Polanco Gomez and the head of the National Drug Control Agency, General Rolando Rosado Mateo, spoke in the last of a series of …

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The National Drug Control Department (DNCD) has announced that it has dismantled a network of Dominicans, Venezuelans, Colombians and Italians who were supposedly sending heroin and cocaine abroad. DNCD chief Major General Rolando Rosado Mateo revealed that some of the group members have been passing themselves off as members of the DNCD using hats with …

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