2012 – Page 273

Judge Alejandro Vargas has ordered the release from custody of entertainment star Antonio Peter de la Rosa (Omega) after his initial accusers did not go on to press charges. He had been held at the Palacio de la Justicia public prosecution jail following complaints by Univision cameraman Cesar Sierra and Dominican journalist Yelena Solano, and …

Read more…

A Venezuelan nationalized Dominican was found carrying US$375,937 in undeclared cash while going through boarding procedures for a flight to Caracas at the Las Americas International Airport. Rules require that prior to leaving the country, amounts of cash over US$10,000 need to be declared. Rodolfo Enrique Fernandez Galvan was arrested and the funds confiscated on …

Read more…

Tragedy struck eight families in Dajabon, after an Isuzu double cabin pickup spun out of control and crashed into a sign and tree, in a traffic accident around 3am on Sunday at the 27 de Febrero Avenue near the Junta Municipal Electoral in Santiago, the Police reported. Seven of the occupants, Saulo Elias Peralta, 25, …

Read more…

Al Horford has been voted the Best Athlete of the Year by the Santo Domingo Sports Writers Association. The 26-year old, 6’10 basketball player with the NBA Atlanta Hawks received the award at a ceremony at the Hotel Embajador on Sunday, 18 March. Horford represented the Dominican Republic in the Olympic qualifier event in Argentina, …

Read more…

The administrative manager of DP World’s Caucedo Multimodal Port Jose Nelton Gonzalez has announced that as of 22 March 2012, the global shipping lines NYK, Hanjin, Evergreen and Hyundai Merchant Marine (HMM) will be using the Dominican Republic as transit operations center for container shipments between North and South America, as reported in El Caribe. …

Read more…

The Ministry for Public Works has announced that the tunnel on Santo Domingo’s 27 de febrero avenue will be closed from Friday 16 to Sunday 18 March between 9pm and 6am, for maintenance work on the lighting system.

The National of Consumer Rights Protection Institute, Pro Consumidor, announced that via their legal and conciliation departments, they have negotiated 92,467,226 pesos of compensation for consumers during the last twelve months based on General Law 385-05 for the protection of Consumers and Users The sectors involved include stores, goods and property, financial entities, telecommunications, education …

Read more…

According to the Ministry of Public Health, 321 people have been cured of tuberculosis in the Dominican Republic over the last seven years, reducing the number of deaths resulting from the illness by 76.7%. In 2004 there were 422 deaths, whereas from 2205 to 2011 there were only 101 deaths, The health authorities pointed out …

Read more…

Taking part in the XII International Cardiology Congress, cardiologist Pedro Diaz, the former president of the Dominican Cardiology Society, said that around 75% of the Dominican population does no physical exercise of any type. He said that this was a contributory factor towards heart disease, which is responsible for 60% of all the deaths in …

Read more…

Taking part in the United Nations Human Rights Commission Annual Meeting, the director general of Immigration, Jose Ricardo Taveras Blanco, warned the Commission that the complaints about the Dominican Republic made by groups at the UN are fabricated. Taveras Blanco said that he would never, under any circumstances, admit to the accusations of racism that …

Read more…