2013 – Page 113

The National Drug Control Agency (DNCD) arrested two transsexuals at Las Americas International Airport yesterday, Tuesday 3 September, one from Puerto Rico and one Dominican who were travelling as mules to New York, apparently with drugs in their stomachs. The DNCD said that Puerto Rican Gabriel Alexis Barrios Gonzalez, 40 and Dominican Jose Luis Hernandez …

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The III Annual Dominican Republic Environmental Film Festival sponsored by Funglode opens today, Wednesday 4 September at the Palacio del Cine-Agora Mall in Santo Domingo with the screening of award-winning film “Mother: Caring for 7 Billion” at 5pm. The film was the winner of the Best Film Category at the Boulder International Film Festival. It …

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Mexican bolero singer Luis Miguel will be performing at the 5,000-seat Altos de Chavon amphitheater in La Romana on 2 November 2013. His previous performance in the country was at the Quisqueya Ball Park to an audience of 15,000. He is now on his The Hits Tour, which is taking him to 10 cities in …

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The Superintendent of Electricity Eduardo Quincoces told journalists yesterday, Monday 2 September, that the electricity tariffs would not go up in September as had been announced the previous day. The Superintendence had announced a leveling of the BTS1 residential and BTS2 commercial rates. Quincoces said that the President had seen how public opinion had reacted …

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The First Lady of Panama Marta Linares de Martinelli will make an official visit to the country, which will include attending a conference on autism and a visit to the Integrated Disability Care Center (CAID) that is run by her counterpart, First Lady Candida Montilla de Medina. The conference about autism will take place starting …

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Jose Miguel Gonzalez Cuesta, president of the Commission for the Relocation of La Barquita Residents says that it was decided that the slum area dwellers will not be relocated to the Cachon de la Rubia environmental reserve area, but to Sabana Perdida, on the other side of the Ozama River. Speaking at the Presidential Palace, …

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Central Electoral Board (JCE) president Roberto Rosario met with Presidency Minister Gustavo Montalvo yesterday, Monday 2 September, and presented him with a series of projects that he plans to carry out next year setting up JCE mobile units at public schools around the country to issue birth certificates and single identity card numbers (NUI) to …

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The Metropolitan Transport Authority (AMET) has been towing away dozens of illegally parked vehicles in Ciudad Nueva and the neighboring Colonial City, especially around the Palacio de la Justicia and Parque Independencia. AMET director General Juan Jeronimo Brown Perez said that they would continue to tow the vehicles in these and other sectors of Greater …

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The Attorney General’s office has launched an investigation to find out who has fraudulently taken ownership of more than 1,324,000 square meters of land that were part of the La Barranquita Sports Complex in Santiago. At a press conference yesterday, Monday 2 September Attorney General Francisco Dominguez Brito and Sports Minister Jaime David Fernandez Mirabal …

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Economist Jose Rafael Abinader thinks that the time has come to replace the Dominican peso with the United States dollar and the euro as it would stabilize the interest rate and allow more investments from the United States and Europe without the problem of exchanging money. He pointed out that this system works successfully in …

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