2012 – Page 311

On the anniversary of the death of Jordan Morrison in Punta Cana, his parents, Carrie McGinnis and her husband Dale flew back here to attend the trial of the men accused with his murder. Five men were originally charged, but only two Montreal men, Dmytro Aref Yev and Bouzid Redha, both 21, have been charged …

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A National Drug Control Department (DNCD) agent, Manuel Alejandro Matos Hidalgo, aged 28, was murdered yesterday, Thursday 2 February, just after he left his house in Ensanche Isabelita in Santo Domingo East at around 10 am. He was shot in the head and died later in Dario Contreras hospital. Matos Hidalgo was assigned to the …

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A Dominican who shot his partner to death in South Carolina was extradited to the US on Thursday, 2 February to face trial on charges of premeditated murder. Carlos Luis Pinales Mejia, also known as Francisco Tejeda Aquino, was arrested by National Drug Control Unit (DNCD) Special Investigations Department officers, for having killed 22-year old …

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Get a feel for Santo Domingo’s Colonial City with a visit to the Teatro Guloya on Arzobispo Portes Street. Pop-rock band Poolpo is performing at 10pm tonight, Friday, 3 February. The opening act will be “Colectivo La Guagua”, a stand-up comedy group. Admission is RD$200. For more on upcoming events, see http://www.dr1.com/calendar

PUCMM rector and leading national political arbiter, Monsignor Agripino Nunez Collado, who leads the National Dialogue process, told reporters yesterday that he believed that a solution would be found at the next meeting scheduled between the general secretaries of the PRD and the PLD to discuss differences at the Central Electoral Board (JCE). He said …

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A feature in today’s El Caribe highlights how close many polls carried out locally have been to forecasting the winner of a presidential election, and that what most of the polls say will happen, usually does. The feature by Oscar Quezada goes back to the 2000 election, with Hipolito Mejia (PRD) vs. Danilo Medina (PLD), …

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Manuel Cabral, the new president of the National Association of Young Entrepreneurs (ANJE), is advising the government to be cautious in its public spending and investments because this is an election year and external factors are not the best at this time. The young businessman said that historically speaking, during election years there is an …

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The United States Government should “take on a greater responsibility” in the fight against drugs and increase the resources aimed at fighting this problem in the Caribbean, said yesterday the Dominican ambassador to the United States, Anibal de Castro. “We see the fight against drug trafficking as a shared responsibility… and we cannot forget that …

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The District Attorney of the National District, Yeni Berenice Reynoso, has extended the hours for reporting gender violence. From now on, the office on Romulo Betancourt will be open from 8:00 in the morning until 11:30 at night Monday through Friday. On weekends and holidays, the office will be open from 8:30am until 3:30pm. The …

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The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said yesterday that Haiti is still going through a humanitarian crisis after the earthquake two years ago that took hundreds of thousands of lives and displaced 1.5 million people. In a press release, the agency said that the situation is due to the fact …

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