2012 – Page 328

Yesterday’s New York Daily News featured the Dominican restaurant Mamajuana Cafe, stating that it is now expanding into a veritable empire. Mamajuana opened in 2006, when Victor Osorio and business partner Carlos Saint-Hilaire, both second-generation Dominicans raised in Washington Heights, bought the Umbrella lounge, a local nightclub that was one of the first opened in …

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The new Los Palmeros monument at Km. 15 of the Las Americas Highway honors four young men remembered as fighters for freedom and democracy. The monument cost RD$12 million pesos, of which the municipality of Santo Domingo East provided five million and the land. It commemorates the 40th anniversary of the fall in combat of …

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Last night the National Drug Control Department (DNCD) arrested five people including a police captain. They are accused of belonging to a drug trafficking network suspected of sending heroin to Puerto Rico. Those arrested had a package with 478 capsules of the narcotic, ready to be ingested. They were identified as former officer Luis Elpidio …

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The National Commission for Human Rights (CNDH) has denounced the killings of at least nine people by the National Police so far this year. The campaigners warned that they would not tolerate more abuse and the violation of people’s rights by the uniformed authorities. Commission president Manuel Maria Mercedes threatened to take the denunciations to …

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Yesterday, the police chief, Major General Jose A Polanco Gomez, instructed the Director of Internal Affairs, Brigade General Franklin B Vitini Duran to carry out a thorough investigation into the alleged mistreatment received by a cameraman from Channel 29 in Santiago at the hands of a police patrol there. General Vitini Duran has been given …

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The judges of the Criminal branch of the Appeal Court in the National District ordered baseball player Willy Aybar be released from custody, after posting bail of five million pesos. Aybar had served two of a three-month remand sentence, accused of assaulting his wife, domestic violence and assaulting two deputy prosecutors Aracely Peralta and Adolfo …

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Atlanta Hawks says that their All Star center, Puerto Plata-born Al Horford will have surgery on the torn pectoral he suffered in a loss to the Indiana Pacers on Wednesday. He is expected to miss three months, but there is hope the surgery will help him make it back in play before the end of …

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In a ceremony at the Presidential Palace yesterday, officials of the Ministry of Public Health and foreign health organizations launched a crusade against cholera in the Dominican Republic and Haiti. The announcement of the event coincided with the second anniversary of the devastating earthquake in Haiti that measured 7.3 on the Richter scale. It killed …

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The Central Bank of the Dominican Republic reported yesterday that the annual rate of inflation from December 2010-December 2011, measured by the change in the Consumer Price Index (IPC), was 7.76 percent, with the underlying rate for the same period at 5.19%. The report states that annualized inflation of 7.76% was due basically to the …

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The New Year began with two increases, one in the price of dollars and the other the interest rate in the market, which affects the pockets of most Dominicans, but is good news for visiting tourists. Since the beginning of the month, the exchange rate for purchasing dollars went over RD$39 to one, while people …

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