2012 – Page 34

The National Meteorological Office (Onamet) reports that a low-pressure trough will be affecting the weather over the country during the first days of this week. There will be rains over much of the country, according to Onamet. Skies will be cloudy because of the large amounts of water in the atmosphere because of this low-pressure …

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On Friday night, 16 November the Aguilas Cibaenas gave the Leones del Escogido a beating, 9-2, with Miguel Tejada providing four runs batted in all by himself. Together with Hector Luna, Chris Coghlan, Manny Ramirez and Oscar Taveras, the excellent pitching of Miguel Batista, T.J. Pena (ERA of 0.00!) and Luis Vizcaino shut down the …

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The National Gallery of the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Santo Domingo is holding an exhibition of works by Dominican master artist Guillo Perez, winner of the 2012 Fundacion Corripio Award. His paintings will be on show from Sunday, 11 November to 30 November at the Gallery. For more on ongoing and upcoming events, see …

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President Danilo Medina met with chief executives of Spanish tourism companies in Madrid yesterday, Thursday 15 November before traveling on to Cadiz for the 22nd Meeting of Ibero-American Heads of State and Government. The Presidency said that the meeting, which focused on possible future investments, had been motivated by the Medina government’s expressed interest in …

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In its editorial today, Friday 16 November, Diario Libre calls for an end to the tradition of corruption and power worship in the Dominican Republic. He specifically calls for attention to the Police and the transport monopolies in the Dominican Republic. “The government must start to do something serious in benefit of the country and …

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Hector Valdez Albizu, Central Bank governor during the last eight years of the Leonel Fernandez administration and who continues in the post in the Medina administration refuted the former President’s statements made on Tuesday, 13 November on the application of money now registered as national fiscal deficit. He denied that RD$49 billion of the RD$187 …

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Civil society group Citizen Participation (PC) says that the arguments given by former President Leonel Fernandez in his Tuesday, 13 November speech on the deficit support the belief that he violated the Constitution and the law when generating the largest fiscal deficit in the country’s history since records began. In a statement, PC says that …

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Writing in Hoy newspaper today, Friday 16 November, Economist Miguel Ceara-Hatton challenges former President Leonel Fernandez’s claims to justify the government’s record RD$187 billion deficit. He points out that income budgeted for 2012 was estimated incorrectly and that the government forecast that revenues would grow 25% from 2011 to 2012, 2.2 times the average of …

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The president of the Alianza Pais political party, former district attorney Guillermo Moreno says that he has been receiving “subtle death threats” for the past weeks. “In some circles of the Mafioso structure that manages the state they have commented among themselves that I should receive a bullet to shut me up,” said Moreno in …

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The United Nations Population Fund Report 2012 statistics released yesterday, Thursday 15 November reveal that the life expectancy in the Dominican Republic is 77 years, compared to 82 in Chile and 64 in Haiti. The teenage pregnancy rate in the DR is high at 20.6%. Population growth in the DR is 1.2%, compared to 1.3% …

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