2012 – Page 314

A panel of seismological experts is booked for a comprehensive presentation on the six earthquakes that affected the Dominican Republic in January, ranging from magnitude 3.4 to 5.4. The event is organized by the schools of Architecture and Engineering of the Universidad Nacional Pedro Henriquez Urena (UNPHU) in Santo Domingo. Speakers are engineers Juan Alberto …

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Take a day trip to visit the Centro Cultural Perello, the new cultural center in Bani. Located at the Carretera Sanchez Km. 2.5, in Escondido, Bani, Peravia, it is less than an hour’s drive southwest from Santo Domingo. A series of photographs by the “Master of the Dominican Lens” Wilfredo Garcia, narrates the national history …

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The Leones del Escogido won the Dominican Winter League Professional Baseball Championship after a dramatic nine-game final playoff series that ended last night. The Leones won the final game in the final inning 6-5 with a walk-off single by Andy Dirk, who drove in Freddy Guzman from third base. The opposing Aguilas Cibaenas, a team …

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La Canela Industrial Park (PILCA) in the municipal district of La Canela in the province of Santiago, inaugurated by the government over a year ago, remains closed. The project was conceived as a way of reducing unemployment in the southern part of the province and to get the economy moving in the town. This project …

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Puerto Plata hotels reported 34% occupancy in December and 71% occupancy over the last two weeks, with the long weekend seeing a rise of 80% capacity. In Punta Cana and Las Terrenas, occupancy was close to 100%, according to Hoy newspaper. The secretary of the Tourism Press Association in Puerto Plata, Edgar Lantigua, told the …

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A week after they went missing at sea, two fishermen from Sabana de la Mar were found in Haiti, alive, dehydrated but safe. Both men were forced to eat raw fish and drink salt water to survive while they were lost at sea. Julio Brito and Jose Ramon Berges Espinal, who both live in Sabana …

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In an interview with Listin Diario, Former New York City Mayor Ruddy Giuliani revealed his formula for reducing crime in New York City. The ingredients are reasonably simple: A strong police force and investment in people. Giuliani, who attended a breakfast meeting with Listin Diario staff and editors, said that honest, well trained and well …

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The long weekend brought the traffic fatality toll to four and dozens of people injured. The worst accidents occurred in Higuey, on the Jarabacoa-La Vega highway and in San Pedro de Macoris. One victim was a 10-year old girl who was struck by an SUV on the Autovia del Este between San Pedro de Macoris …

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One man died and more than a dozen people, including seven tourists from the United States, were injured, when the Caribe Tours bus they were traveling in went off the road and down into a gully on the Jarabacoa-La Vega highway. The fatality was Julio Lugo, the bus driver, who died on the way to …

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The National Drug Control Department (DNCD) announced the arrest and dismantling of a drug trafficking ring yesterday, composed of Dominicans, Colombians and Puerto Ricans. The arrests were made in conjunction with the United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). 28 packages of cocaine were found along with three leading members of the ring. What is interesting …

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