2012 – Page 250

The PLD-majority Senate approved a loan for US$38.5 million to partially finance the completion of the Autopista del Coral highway that links La Romana to Punta Cana in the east, as reported in Diario Libre. BNP Paribas had arranged the 10-year financing with US Eximbank, the US government export credit agency. Odebrecht, the Brazilian engineering …

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Jose Manuel Torres, vice president of the Dominican Association of Free Zones (Adozona) says that the sector had a good year in 2011. He said exports reached US$4.84 billion, a record year for export free zones. He said the trend for 2012 is again positive. Torres said that the year closed with 125,000 direct jobs …

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Velutini Group president Luis Emilio Velutini announces that JW Marriott will operate the 121-suite hotel, next addition to the 15-floor Santo Domingo Blue Mall complex on Santo Domingo’s Av. Winston Churchill. In an interview with Listin Diario published on Tuesday 10 April, the Venezuelan investor said the luxury business hotel is scheduled to open in …

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A new 320-page photography book on the Dominican Republic is out, with a fresh and trendy format, practical size and easy to carry, showing a Dominican Republic that is not usually shown – its technological advances, infrastructure, arts, nightlife, creativity, culinary. The book is available on Amazon for US$25 and at selected stores in the …

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According to the Major League Baseball commissioner’s office, the percentage of Major League Baseball players born outside the United States rose to its third-highest level. Among the 856 players on opening day rosters, 243 were born outside the 50 states. The 28.4 percentage is up from 27.7 last year and trails only 2005 (29.2) and …

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The Ministry of Public Health says that 20 people are suspected of having died of leptospirosis during the first three months of the year. Meanwhile the number of cases continues to rise with 264 up to 31 March, according to a report from the Public Health Ministry’s General Epidemics Office. The provinces where most cases …

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An inspection of the beaches at Bavaro was carried out by the Deputy Minister of Tourism, Pedro Morillo, regional environmental director Julio Aramis Mora, Navy supervisor Napoleon Casilla Vincente and the heads of Amet and Politur, Minoru Matsunaga and Rafael Sosa Dominguez, along with environmental prosecutor Altagracia Perez Ynirio. They identified a series of problems …

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The National Police says that the owner of a SUV shot and killed a 26-year old man, Roberto Santiago Rodriguez after discovering him in the act of stealing parts from his vehicle. The vehicle was parked in Taveras Oeste near the Monument in Santiago. Rodriguez who lived in Los Jazmines died later in Jose Maria …

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Yesterday afternoon, Tuesday, 10 April, a fire destroyed Fibras International, an export and cardboard recycling business near the El Torito barrio on Hermanas Mirabal Avenue in Villa Mella. According to Jazmin Lluberes, a company executive, the fire started at 5:30pm. The Santo Domingo North fire brigade could not cope with the fire, as they did …

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Yesterday morning the police issued a writ against the ex major league baseball player, Vladimir Guerrero, who is accused of assaulting a police major in a discotheque in Nizao, owned by the player’s family. Guerrero then gave himself up to the police in Bani at 8:30am and at 2:30pm was subsequently taken before a judge …

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