2012 – Page 76

Defending his decision to reopen the corruption case against San Juan de la Maguana senator Felix Bautista, Attorney General Francisco Dominguez Brito told reporters that there was no truth in the rumor that the move concealed a plan to process former President Leonel Fernandez. Dominguez Brito told Carmen Matos of Hoy, that “if anyone has …

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The nation’s oldest private institution for assisting people in need of rehabilitation due to injuries or illness is now 49 years old, and needs help. The Dominican Rehabilitation Association, founded by Mary Perez de Marranzini after her son Celso suffered from polio, is operating with a RD$46 million deficit. Nonetheless, the association plans expansion into …

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The Dominican tourist industry is beginning to worry about its impact on the environment and it’s about time too, according to Listin Diario reporter Windler Soto. In a long article in today’s edition of the newspaper, Soto lists the challenges faced by the industry. They include the 400 tons of refuse produced each day, and …

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The chief of the National Police has warned that loudspeakers exceeding the established noise limits will be seized by the authorities. In Memorandum 32026, Major General Jose Armando Polanco Gomez says that in each case where an abusive use of music equipment has been established, police “agents will seize the equipment with no excuses…” If …

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What is now believed to be a major national and international drug trafficking network agreed to a payment of US$40,000 to take the small airplane which crashed in Tireo, Constanza, to Venezuela, with the promise that after taking it on to Honduras laden with cocaine the pilot would collect US$250,000 and the co-pilot US$150,000, as …

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Dominican Week 2012 has begun in Washington, D.C. and the Dominican Embassy played host to a delegation of business representatives and government officials from the DR. Prominent among the visitors was Julio Brache, the president of the American Chamber of Commerce in the Dominican Republic and US Ambassador in the Dominican Republic Raul Yzaguirre. The …

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Kenny Grullon and Carlos A. Fatule have known each other throughout their years in show business. But when their children, Javier Grullon and Karla Fatule got married the relationship inspired a play about expectations and life. The script is by Miguel Alcantara and Enrique Pintor is the director. “Emergency Grandparents” is intended to make people …

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Chinese-French award-winning production 11 Flowers is one of the films being screened at the Novocentro International Film Festival. The film is regarded as one of the finest films produced by Wang Xiaoshuai. It is described as an absorbing coming-of-age drama set during the waning stage of China’s Cultural Revolution. In the film, he dramatizes a …

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Cardinal Nicolas de Jesus Lopez Rodriguez visited Vice President Margarita Cedeno on Monday 1 October to discuss the social programs run by her office aimed at improving living conditions for families in extreme poverty. Cardinal Lopez Rodriguez expressed his interest in working closely with the Vice President in her office’s Progress with Solidarity Program. The …

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Dominicans are procrastinating less. The Taxes Office (DGII) has announced that the renewal of vehicle taxation stickers has so far resulted in RD$214,374,400 being paid in the first month of the process. The best news is that this number is 40% higher than during the first month last year. 159,732 marbetes have been renewed, which …

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