2013 – Page 110

Forbes Energy has plans to invest US$45 million in the DR to expand its energy operations. The Newport, Rhode Island-based company has been operating in the DR for seven years, as reported in El Caribe. Lucien Forbes, president of the company says that it seeks to install a plant to produce 200,000 daily liters of …

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The average life expectancy in the Dominican Republic upon birth is 73.7 years, compared to 72.94 for the Latin American and Caribbean region. The Global Burden of Disease: Generating Evidence, Guiding Policy by the World Bank and the The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) establishes that Costa Rica is the regional country where …

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Cardinal Nicolas Lopez Rodriguez, head of the Roman Catholic Church in the Dominican Republic, issued a statement yesterday, Thursday 5 September urging the Dominican judiciary to act in the cases of priests accused of misconduct in the country. No charges have been pressed in the pedophilia scandal involving former Holy See ambassador to the Dominican …

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On Thursday evening, 5 September local TV station Noticias CDN revealed that there is no record of Papal Nuncio Josef Wesolowski’s departure from the Dominican Republic from any of the country’s airports. The news station says that the Holy See ambassador could have departed the country via Haiti and there is also the possibility he …

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With the dissident vote of the president of the Second Hall of the Penal Chamber of the Court of Appeals of the National District, the court ordered the release on bail of Colombian brothers Huber Osvaldo Buitrago Ruiz and Angel Maria Buitrago Vacca, suspected of heading a money laundering and drug trafficking network in the …

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Agents on board a National Drug Control Agency (DNCD) helicopter suffered the scare of having to repel bullets shot by drug traffickers at Playa Punta Arena in Juancho, Pedernales on Wednesday, 4 September. The helicopter was equipped with night vision systems. The DNCD agents were in the area at dawn to halt an operation of …

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Holding on to its hopes of winning one of four slots to the World Championship that will be held in Spain next year, the Dominican Republic defeated Jamaica 78-60 on Thursday 5 September in the FIBA Americas Championship taking place in Caracas. The last time the DR had played Jamaica was at the Centrobasket 2010, …

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1980s pop star Belinda Carlisle on The Greatest and Latest Tour, is booked for a concert at the Teatro La Fiesta at the Hotel Jaragua in Santo Domingo. She is remembered as the lead singer of the Go-Gos, one of the most successful all-girl bands of all times. She is also well known for her …

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The Senate has approved the creation of a commission to investigate the US$550 million bond issue attributed to Aerodom, the concessionaire of several of the country’s main airports, according to a report in Diario Libre. The news was that Advent International, the owners of Aerodom, issued the debt to pay out US$325 million to its …

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The Superintendence of Pensions is considering using part of the pension funds for infrastructure for the energy sector, such as taking on debt for funding the construction of electricity generation plants. Superintendent of Pensions Joaquin Geronimo, speaking before a meeting organized by the Confederations of Small and Medium-sized Construction Companies (Copymecon), said that for the …

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