2012 – Page 275

The Institutionalism and Justice Foundation (Finjus) has criticized a sentence issued by the Superior Electoral Tribunal (TSE) which annulled the alliance signed by the National Veterans and Civilians Party (PNVC) and the PRD, because it “deeply cuts into the institutionalism of the political system.” In a press release yesterday, Wednesday 14 March, the executive vice-president …

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The Superior Electoral Court (TSE) has defended its members’ democratic right to differ in their decisions and denied that their decisions respond to flippancies or individual interests. The court added that neither does this tribunal get into an internal division or crisis. Mariano Rodriguez, the president of the TSE, spoke in the name of the …

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Following a meeting with the vice-president of the Public Electricity Corporation (CDEEE), Celso Marranzini yesterday Wednesday 14 March, National Business Council (Conep) president Manuel Diez Cabral said that the national electricity sector should be in private hands. At present, the government runs the three power distribution companies n EdeSur, EdeNorte and EdeSur. Diez Cabral said …

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The ICSSI SRL company reported yesterday Wednesday 14 March that contractual issues generated by the lawsuit to annul a contract signed with the Ministry of Armed Forces is being heard by a commission appointed by the Executive Branch. The contract provides for the installation of x-ray equipment at Dominican ports. According to a press release …

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There was a song some time ago that told of “50 ways to leave your lover” and now the Dominican authorities have found at least 37 ways to ship drugs. Some of the methods are unusual and many sound implausible. According to El Caribe, a woman was found with her girdle stuffed with heroin as …

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A prosecutor from the judicial district of the province of Santiago de los Caballeros was arrested by police authorities yesterday Wednesday 14 March after being accused of sexual aggression against an underage girl in Esperanza. The defendant is magistrate Prudencio Francisco Vasquez, who worked in the department of special traffic jurisdiction in the town. Diario …

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Known for his merengue/hip hop mix tunes and popular in the DR and New York, the flashy, attention-seeking entertainer Omega (Antonio Peter de la Rosa) has done it again. This time, nevertheless, he got himself arrested and might not have it so easy. He is accused of aggression against a 15-year old girl, a Univision …

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Police spokesman General Maximo Baez Aybar has announced the arrest of 30-year old Julio Aquiles Martinez Arias (Bocho), the lead suspect of the murder of Claudio Francisco Caamano Velez, on Sunday at a colmadon in Pizarette, Peravia. Martinez was arrested in Santo Domingo East municipality and taken to the city of Bani for arraignment. Caamano …

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The National Police established yesterday, Wednesday 14 March, that a Haitian man, Yoel Geffrard, who was killed by two bullets on the campus of the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo (UASD) on Monday afternoon, 12 March, had links to international drug trafficking. The investigators also discovered that last year Geffrard was kidnapped by a gang …

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Reverend Father Juan Linares, founder of “Boys and Girls with Don Bosco” and Dona Olga Gonzalez, president of the Fight against Cancer Council in the Cibao, have been selected by the Qualifying Jury as the Man and Woman of the Year 2011. The prestigious prizes, sponsored by Diario Libre, will be awarded during a gala …

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