2012 – Page 68

Police spokesman Diego Pesqueria says three Haitian men and a woman have been arrested in connection with the murder of an Italian-American, Raffaele Foria, aged 67, last Tuesday, 2 October in Sosua. The men known as Benni Ulises, Aniel Chery and Jonny Puerd are also accused of injuring Stanley Leon and a lieutenant from the …

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National District judge Alejandro Vargas has sent Caribair president Rafael Rosado Fermin to jail on remand for six months. Rosado is accused of belonging to an international drug trafficking network and money laundering. Sergio Rene Gomez Diaz, Cristian Antonio Suarez Javier and Ennol Outram Holmes were also jailed along with the airline executive. A total …

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Dominican-American author Junot Diaz has been shortlisted as one of five finalists in the fiction category for the National Book Award 2012, the premier literature award in the United States, for his latest book, “This Is How You Lose Her,” a short story collection. The other 20 finalists for the National Book Awards in fiction, …

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The United States consulate in the country is being sued for US$180 million in a local court by Miguel Familia, a US citizen of Dominican origin, who alleges that when he went to get residency for his daughter, the DNA test to prove he was her father came back negative. Familia says he thought his …

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And now Dominicans find out that there are Dominican policemen that have emigrated but are still being issued their paychecks. The head of the National Police, Major General Jose Armando Polanco Gomez, says that they are investigating a number of police agents, including colonels, supposedly on active service, but who have left the country without …

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Grassroots musician Krency Garcia, better known as El Prodigio, will be playing at Hard Rock Cafe on Tuesday, 30 October. El Dia reports on his upcoming wedding on Monday, 15 October in Santiago, to his long-term girlfriend, psychologist Sterlyn Rodriguez. El Prodigio says that the Hard Rock show will feature three musical styles: “typical” merengue, …

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President Danilo Medina was in San Pedro yesterday, Tuesday 9 October for the inauguration of the Los Origenes Power Plant, which cost US$70 million and will contribute 25 megawatts to the national power grid. The plan is to expand it to 60 megawatts in a second phase, and to 100 megawatts in a third phase. …

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The Medina administration received some solid backing from the nation’s universities yesterday, Tuesday 9 October. The institutions for higher learning gave the country’s leader their “complete support” for his “Quisqueya Learns with You” literacy program, offering physical space, logistics and personnel for the initiative, which they described as praiseworthy and patriotic. President Danilo Medina thanked …

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President Danilo Medina has ordered the Program of Essential Medicines-Center for Logistic Support (Promese-Cal in Spanish) to function as the unique supplier of medicines, medical supplies and laboratory reagents for the National Public Health System. The entity will now fall under the Ministry of Public Health. The orders contained in Decree 608-12 state that all …

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President Danilo Medina says that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is “fundamentally responsible” for the financial crisis that affects the Dominican electricity sector, because the specialists from the multilateral financial agency have always believed that the energy problem could be resolved by increasing collections, addressing the technical losses and reducing energy theft. Medina said that …

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