2012 – Page 60

Escuelas Radiofonicas Santa Maria has won the RD$1,500,000 award in the Brugal Rum awards, Brugal Believes in Its People. The radio station carries out important literacy programs. This year’s award was issued in the education category. The prize was received by Eduardo Garcia Tamayo who spoke at the ceremony stressing the importance of investing in …

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The whereabouts of Soanny Montero, a doctor who works at the Police Hospital on Independencia Avenue in Santo Domingo are unknown after hospital cameras showed that she left her workplace on Monday, 15 October at 3pm in her gray Honda Civic number plate A568168. The 27-year old doctor has gone missing. Her boyfriend, Jonathan Reyes, …

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A Puerto Plata court has ordered a year’s preventive custody for Peter Brunck and his son Daniel Brunck in the case involving the death of fellow German Peter Ebert Demetrick in a clash at La Mulatta III residential area in Sosua, in which three police agents were also injured. The Bruncks admitted that the armored …

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At dawn yesterday, Thursday 18 October, the Navy announced the interception of a boat with 60 people on board after leaving Nagua beach for Puerto Rico. The boat tried to evade the Navy at sea and the Air Force was called in for backup. The fragile 36-foot craft was dangerously overloaded, with 49 men, 10 …

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The deputy director of security at the Rafey Jail, Luis Montas Marichal is suing inmate Adriano Roman after the latter allegedly threatened to kill him, as reported in Diario Libre. The newspaper says the Santiago prosecutor Luisa Liranzo confirmed the information and told Diario Libre that the suit would be heard. The alleged death threat …

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As a warm-up for Dominicana Moda, the premier fashion week in the Dominican Republic that opens next week at the Hotel Embajador, organizers will be hosting an event with fashion shows and fashion sales in the participating stores on Winston Churchill Avenue, mainly Acropolis and Blue Mall, which will cause some traffic diversions. The City …

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President Danilo Medina is considering the possibility of the Dominican government investing in a national airline. This follows on from a failed multi-million-dollar initiative that was launched when Felix Jimenez was Minister of Tourism. Medina made the announcement after a meeting at the Presidential Palace with Spanish businessman Juan Jose Hidalgo, owner of Globalia that …

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Yesterday, Wednesday 17 October, President Danilo Medina received credentials from four new ambassadors to the Dominican Republic at a ceremony at the Presidential Palace. They were Jose Marcus Vinicius de Sousa from Brazil, followed by Alejandro Jose Buitron Porras from Guatemala, Georges Boisse from Canada and Nelson Artola Escobar from Nicaragua. The President was accompanied …

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The president of the Economic and Social Council (CES) has handed the government a document advising the Medina administration to further reduce public spending and submit a RD$410 billion National Budget, instead of the proposed US$459 billion spending presented in the draft reviewed by the CES. On Wednesday 17 October, the president of the Economic …

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The rector of the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo (UASD), Mateo Aquino Febrillet, says that if the state university does not receive its 5% of the 2013 National Budget the university authorities would take the case to the Constitutional Court. He said that the Constitution makes it clear that the state will finance public education …

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