2012 – Page 286

The Inter-American Development Bank is backing the 2012 Ideas contest that calls for innovative proposals to promote sustainable energy technologies in the Caribbean. Awards of up to US$200,000 are made for projects and enterprises that promote energy efficiency and access to renewable energy in the Caribbean. The 2012 Ideas Energy Innovation Contest is also backed …

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The Dominican Republic’s National Energy Commission (CNE) signed a technical cooperation agreement with the Inter-American Development Bank on the development of bioenergy on Friday March 2, reports the Caribbean Journal. The agreement will lead to a series of studies on bioenergy, taking into account the country’s cooperation on biofuels with Brazil and the United States. …

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Dominican trade with Colombia totaled just US$33 million over the past five years, with Colombia exporting US$3,585 million to the DR. But the DR benefited from US$850 million in Colombian investment. The Center for Exports and Investment (CEI-RD) held a workshop on Friday, 2 March where director Eddy Martinez pointed to how construction, manufacturing, textile, …

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A Wall Street Journal follow-up story on the would-be Westin Roco Ki resort and residential development in Macao beach, north of Punta Cana on the east coast, concludes that most purchasers in the development want to hang in there and see their homes finished. They are hoping for an investor to rescue the project that …

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The local newspaper El Caribe is distributing nostalgic Superhero comics, bringing back the characters of Batman (Bruce Wayne), Superman (Clark Kent), Wonder Woman (Diana), Cat Woman, Green Lantern and Flash, and baddies Lex Luthor and the Joker. The comics are not as well known among the younger generation, but the newspaper is betting the characters …

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National Drug Control Department (DNCD) chief Rolando Rosado Mateo says that the perception that there are more drugs now in the DR is created by the higher confiscation rate. “In the past it was not confiscated, and it was not visible, because the drug traffickers do not go around showing off their cocaine,” he said. …

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Former mayor and communicator, Rafael Corporan de los Santos died of a heart attack in the early hours of this morning. He had attended a commemorative event at Color Vision, Channel 9, on Saturday when the studio that hosted his Sabado de Corporan Show was given his name. Corporan was mayor of Santo Domingo from …

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In its 14th year, the Muestra Internacional del Cine will be held in Santo Domingo, this time from 15 to 24 March. Films from 20 countries will be shown. The festival opens on 14 March with the screening of My Grandfather (Mi abuelo), a Dominican film directed by Albert Xavier. On the opening evening, Colombian …

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Yesterday, Thursday March 1, President Leonel Fernandez announced the start of television and radio broadcasts “Rendering Accounts to the Dominican People.” The programs will air on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 7 to 9pm, said the Presidency. The announcement follows comments by the National Business Council (Conep) that the President had failed to fulfill constitutional requirement …

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Today’s press carried photos of former PRD-dissident Hatuey de Camps and PRD presidential candidate Hipolito Mejia in an embrace on the occasion of the announcement that De Camps is the new political director of Mejia’s presidential campaign. Cesar Cedeno continues to be the campaign director. Hatuey de Camps left the party in 2004 when Mejia …

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