2012 – Page 325

The Minister of Hacienda, Daniel Toribio, says that there is not going to be any sort of tax reform in the near future, as the Central Bank’s intervention has controlled the recent exchange rate increase. Toribio said that Central Bank Governor Hector Valdez Albizu and his team have the currency exchange situation under control, as …

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On Monday the Central Electoral Board (JCE) Plenary approved the regulations for the application of Law 198-11, which covers marriages celebrated in the Evangelical Christian churches of the Dominican Republic. As part of these regulations, the churches are obliged to register marriages in the Books of Acts of the Civil Registries as well as being …

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The Ministry of Foreign Relations has confirmed that at least three Dominicans were members of the crew of the capsized Costa Concordia. The 4,000+ passenger ship hit the rocks off Giglio island off the Tuscan coast, with a tragic toll of 14 dead and 29 missing. The Ministry of Foreign Relations said that it has …

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Ramon Escalante Florentino and Romelia Darisa Gonzalez have been together for six years, and over last weekend they shared the terror and tragedy of the shipwreck of the Costa Concordia, one of the world’s largest cruise ships, off the coast of the island of Giglio, just a few miles from Italy’s Tuscan coast. Their story …

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A 130-pound cache of cocaine seized at Philadelphia International Airport is the airport’s biggest contraband bust ever, according to MyFox Philly. The previous bust record was 55 pounds on 5 August 2000. And now National Drug Control Department and US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agents are trying to find the local accomplices, according to media …

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The commander of the National Drug Control Department (DNCD), Major General Rolando Rosado Mateo, said yesterday in a report carried in El Nuevo Diario, that a large proportion of the narcotics that come into the Dominican Republic is then sent on to Europe, especially Belgium, France, Spain, the Netherlands and Germany. Rosado Mateo says that …

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The Third Collegiate Court of the National District has dismissed the case against a moneychanger, Carlos Julio Solano, and ordered the return of the RD$50 million taken during the search of his place of business, Casa de Cambio Solano, in 2009. Judges Rafael Pacheco, Natividad Ramona de los Santos and Leticia Martinez, issued a “Not …

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Several officers and agents of the National Police detachment at Plaza Valerio in the La Joya sector of Santiago have been arrested and placed under investigation in connection with the death of private employee Rafael Orlando Salce Minaya, who died last Saturday after falling down outside the station, as reported in Diario Libre. The agents …

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A series of more than seven contract killings in the country’s eastern region over the last few months has caused concern. The highest profile case in La Romana was the contract killing of journalist Jose Agustin Silvestre on 2 August 2011, when the victim was found in bushes at the entrance to the La Romana-San …

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Last night the Cuban left-hander Raul Valdes pitched perhaps the only nine-inning game of this year’s Dominican Winter League Baseball Championship, and he pitched a gem: nine innings, five hits and one run. According to one of the Aguilas players, Valdes was “neither high or low, not inside or out.” As a result, the Aguilas …

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