2012 – Page 299

Early yesterday morning, Thursday February 16, several hooded men were caught on camera breaking into a warehouse belong to UPS at Santo Domingo’s Las Americas International Airport. They stole gold ingots, jewelry, electro-domestic products, music equipment and cell phones, worth around RD$10 million. According to the police, the thieves entered through the zinc roof, and …

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According to El Nacional, in the first 45 days of this year, 100 Dominicans who have served their sentences in the United States for drug trafficking have been repatriated, 18 of whom spent eight to 12 years in jail, 42 spent four to eight years and the other 40 between two and four years. In …

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Markus Werner Rauh, a 32-year old German, was on the run, having escaped from prison in Germany whilst serving a sentence for drug trafficking. He was captured in Luperon, near Puerto Plata when buying cocaine, by members of the Criminal Investigation Department (Dicrim) attached to Interpol, and the National Drugs Control Unit (DNCD). He had …

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The late Freddy Mateo Lebron can now be laid to rest after the management of Plaza de la Salud hospital finally handed over his body to his family, who owed them RD$2.5 million. Mateo Lebron, who worked as a baker, had spent more than four months in intensive care following a traffic accident and the …

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Every Sunday evening at the Monasterio de San Francisco ruins in Santo Domingo’s Colonial City, enjoy free performances by several bands representing a range of musical styles including merengue, jazz and son, from 5pm to 10pm. For more on upcoming events, see http://www.dr1.com/calendar

President Leonel Fernandez says that despite the ending of the agreement with the IMF, the country will continue growing and generating investor confidence. “Confidence will continue because the agreement with the IMF expired this February anyway, so that really we have reached the end of the agreement and of course what there is, from now …

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Faced with the end of the Stand-by Agreement between the government and the International Monetary Fund, with the seventh and eighth revisions still pending, the Dominican business sector has called on the authorities to refrain from using state resources for the election campaign. Manuel Diez Cabral, the president of the National Business Council (Conep), said …

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The Ministry of Public Health has delivered 14 sets of neo-natal equipment to hospitals along the frontier, at a cost of over RD$16 million. Dr. Nelson Rodriguez Monegro, the Deputy Minister for the Health Services Network, noted that the equipment would be used for ante-natal as well as neo-natal care and help lower the maternal-infant …

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Diario Libre reports that yesterday Wednesday February 15, the Dominican Conference of Bishops called on all Dominican citizens to vote in the elections of next 20 May. The Conference used the occasion of their pastoral letter for 27 February, Independence Day, to propose a Law of Electoral Campaigning, to condemn the use of illicit resources …

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The Water and Sewer Corporation of Santo Domingo (CAASD) has identified two sources of water that can produce between eight and ten cubic meters per second, which would allow the water company to solve the deficit of potable water for the National District and Greater Santo Domingo. The Minister of State and director of the …

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