2012 – Page 303

This weekend, Cabeza de Toro Beach in Punta Cana will be hosting the dressed-in-white beach party spectacular, Desalia 2012, with hundreds of revelers coming from Spain and other parts of Europe to join Dominican fun-lovers for a memorable beach night. The fiesta-concert is sponsored by Barcelo Rum and will take place this Saturday 18 February. …

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Interviewed on the D’Agenda TV program, Minister of Public Works and Communications Victor Diaz Rua announced that work would commence shortly on the road linking the Cibao with the south of the country. He said that the road, which will cost more than US$100 million, would connect Juan Adrian in Monsenor Nouel province with Rancho …

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Acento.com.do reports that on the morning of Friday February 10, police raided houses belonging to the journalist Guillermo Gomez, including a villa in Casa de Campo and the offices of ElSiglo.21.com, an online newspaper. They were apparently looking for clues in the hacking case that affected the e-mail accounts of the First Lady and other …

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Members of the National Police and other state security organizations arrested businessman Jose Rafael Fermin (Loco Fermin) on Friday February 10 in Santiago. Fermin is one of the main investors in PRD presidential candidate Hipolito Mejia’s campaign, as well as another three members of the opposition party, according to Listin Diario. According to his lawyer, …

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Diario Libre reports that the Supreme Court of Justice (SCJ) is ordering an investigation into the sentence of main executives of the Spanish group Barcelo in Punta Cana to five years in jail, accused of theft by a construction company. SCJ president Mariano German Mejia ordered the measure on Sunday February 12, after the hotel …

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Shots were fired at a vehicle in which merengue singer Miriam Cruz was traveling in the early hours of Saturday morning, February 11. The vehicle was being driven by her husband Englebert Landolfi and the other passengers were her head of security, Victor Reynoso and the band director Henry Jimenez. Cruz had been performing in …

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Levels of respect for the rights of children and young people in the Dominican Republic are ‘poor’ according to a study carried out by the Observatory of the Rights of Children and Young People (ODNA). The study showed that the province of Bahoruco has the highest level of infant mortality in the country with 60 …

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According to the British newspaper The Daily Mail, for ?4,500 (US$7,000), including air fares, hotel and paperwork, couples can now get an overnight divorce as part of a package holiday to the Caribbean. A divorce in Britain takes at least four months, even when both partners are keen to proceed. For no-fault divorces, couples have …

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The Dominican Telecommunications Institute (INDOTEL) says that the Canadian company, Research in Motion (RIM) has reported technical problems leading to delays in sending messages from Blackberry phones in the country. The problem, affecting around 10% of the users in Canada and Latin America, is said to arise from the RIM system and is expected to …

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Dominican and Haitian fishermen are experiencing a wave of confiscations at sea of people, boats, engines, fishing pots and other fishing tackle. Dominican sailors believe that it is a form of revenge following the confiscation of Haitian boats and their subsequent burning by the Ministry of the Environment and Natural Resources in Pedernales. In the …

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