2012 – Page 337

Nobel Prize for Literature laureate Mario Vargas Llosa said on Wednesday, 28 December upon receiving an honorary degree from UNSPEC, that the Dominican Republic has become an example for Latin America after the fall of dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo in 1960. “I have seen how this society has been transformed, how it has opened to …

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The PLD, PRD and PRSC will receive 80% of a RD$1.44 billion budget set aside to finance electoral activities for the 20 May 2012 presidential election. The budget will be distributed by the Central Electoral Board (JCE). Last year the political parties received RD$640 million. Dominican electoral law establishes that political parties recognized by the …

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Accumulated annual inflation to November was 7.6%, according to a recent report of the Central Bank. The Central Bank forecast year’s end inflation should close at 8%. The bank reported that the Lombard interest rate for short-term Central Bank loans to other banks is at 9% per yield. Fuel prices closed at 31 December at …

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Almost at the same level as in the year when the country suffered its worse banking crisis ever, in 2004, the debt of the non-financial public sector reached US$15.78 billion as of November, or equal to 29% of the GDP, as reported in Listin Diario. In 2004 the percentage was 29.1%. Of the total 71.4% …

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The Emergency Operations Center (COE) reported 21 deaths over the New Year’s holiday. Some 440 people had to be assisted, of whom 309 were in traffic accidents, 112 for alcohol poisoning and 19 for food poisoning, from midnight Friday 30 December to 8pm on Sunday, 1 January. The Metropolitan Transport Authority reported 221 accidents, and …

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At year’s end the Police was still on the trail of a man posing as a doctor who according to patients claimed high sums of money to give priority to their operations in the emergency room of the Jose Maria Cabral y Baez public hospital, the largest in Santiago during the holidays. The Police have …

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Insisting that the authorities revoke his preventive custody bail and release him from jail, former PRD senator Tony Rutinel remained behind bars over the Christmas and New Year’s holidays. His relatives paid his bail bond, but he refused to sign contracts No. 109001 of Seguros Pepin and 029261 of Seguros Dhiacla. National District Prosecutor Yeni …

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Miss Universe 2003, Amelia Vega has denied that pregnancy was reason for her unexpected wedding to Atlanta Hawks basketball player Al Horford on Christmas Eve. Her public relations representative David Benitez Oquendo spoke to Primera Hora newspaper of Puerto Rico, as reported by Listin Diario. He said that Vega explained the rush was because both …

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Talented 400m runner Luguelin Santos (at the age of 18 he clocked up a time of 44.71 and won the silver medal at the Pan Am Games in Guadalajara, Mexico) has signed a two-year deal with German-sports attire firm Puma, his agent Kris Mychasiw announced. Santos is ranked seventh in the world in the 400 …

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