2012 – Page 284

The Red Sox are offering the chance to make every child’s baseball dreams come true. The Red Sox and JetBlue have come together once again this year to offer the opportunity of a lifetime to 10 deserving teenagers through the Lindos Suenos program. Lindos Suenos, Spanish for “Beautiful Dreams”, offers a special program to high …

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The Museum of Modern Art presents works by Dominican Jose Rincon Mora as of 7 March. The exhibit features over 100 works produced by the leading Dominican contemporary artist in Santo Domingo and in Germany. Rincon is known for his work as a painter and architect, and for his drawings, sculptures and stained glass art. …

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President Leonel Fernandez has decreed a day of mourning today Tuesday, 6 March in memory of the great television personality and sometimes politician, Rafael Corporan de los Santos. Corporan passed away yesterday morning just a day or so after being honored by Color Vision and a network of other television stations for his incredible career, …

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The European Union is providing EUR73,000,000 towards projects and programs for the development of the Dominican Republic. The main target area for these programs is the area along the frontier with Haiti. According to Listin Diario, EU development commissioner Andris Piebalgs met with President Leonel Fernandez and Domingo Jimenez, the European Union funds coordinator, before …

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“Money talks and the rest walk” is an old political adage that seems to be evident in the current Dominican political arena. Citizen Participation, a civil society watchdog group, has given a glimpse at spending in today’s Hoy newspaper. Total political spending shows that the ruling PLD is spending 3.5 times what the opposition PRD …

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Last night the PRD presidential candidate and former President, Hipolito Mejia, accused the Leonel Fernandez government using the National Budget to “install a one-party dictatorship” in the country, controlling major agencies of the state apparatus. Diario Libre quoted the former President as saying: “The Dominican people know that with the backing of the National Budget, …

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The PLD Political Committee did not lose any time and immediately issued a document in response to Hipolito Mejia’s speech. The Committee warned that the country “cannot return to the backwardness, with a man who embodies chaos, incompetence and disorder.” On the points listed by Mejia about the installation of “a one-party dictatorship” in the …

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PRD president Miguel Vargas Maldonado said today Tuesday March 6 that he would not be campaigning for his party’s presidential candidate Hipolito Mejia, as reported in Hoy. Vargas said he would continue in his institutional role as president of the party. He said that whatever happens from now on is the presidential candidate’s own responsibility. …

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The PLD is planning to register its alliances for the 20 May elections at the Central Electoral Board (JCE) this afternoon. Meanwhile the PRD expects to conclude the process during the day, before the midnight deadline tonight. According to Diario Libre, as of yesterday, Monday March 5, the PRD delegate to the JCE, Salvador Ramos, …

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A group of First Lady Margarita Cedeno’s lawyers, headed by Luis Miguel Pereyra, will file a lawsuit before the District Attorney of Santiago today, Tuesday March 6 against television commentator Marcos Martinez is only for supposedly having forged documents from a Denmark Bank, and not for defamation. She seeks to be indemnified for RD$10 million, …

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