2013 – Page 128

The Palacio de Bellas Artes, home to the government schools of the arts, is likely to be known as the Palacio de Bellas Artes Freddy Beras Goico in the future. The Executive Branch has sent a request for this proposal to the Senate, and it is almost certain to be approved as the PLD holds …

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The United Nations Unit for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women) has announced it is opening of an office in the Dominican Republic. According to Foreign Relations Minister Carlos Morales Troncoso, the initiative is the result of a meeting between the United Nations and the Dominican government. He said it would be …

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A 23-year old mother of three, Estefany Moreno, was the recipient of the Dominican Republic’s first heart transplant at the Plaza de la Salud General Hospital over a year ago, on 19 July 2012, and an article in today’s Hoy newspaper, Tuesday 20 August 2013 reports on her progress. Her heart defect was discovered when …

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The civil society group Citizen Participation (PC) has flagged up what it describes as authoritarianism within the Central Electoral Board (JCE). PC points to the recent replacement of judge Jose Angel Aquino as coordinator of the Civil Registry Offices Commission. PC campaigners say that the board has “only traces of a collegiate and democratic body,” …

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Former President Hipolito Mejia said yesterday, Monday, 19 August that he accepts the agreements that were reached by a commission that negotiated with Miguel Vargas Maldonado’s team, looking for a solution to the impasse among the rival factions representing PRD members. Nevertheless, Julio Marinez, president of the PRD Disciplinary Committee and a close associate of …

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A total of 23 girls between the ages of 10 and 14 are pregnant and receiving treatment at the Juan Pablo Pina hospital in San Cristobal. The hospital director, Miguel Geraldino, said that none of the girls, who come from Ocoa, Bani and Yaguate, are inpatients, but they are receiving periodic consultations. The director of …

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The National Drug Control Agency (DNCD) has announced that the drugs seized in a cave in the National Park of the East near Boca de Yuma, Higuey on Saturday, 17 August, consisted of 327 kilos of pure cocaine. The DNCD said that the cocaine was part of a shipment that came into the country by …

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Following a request from the Public Prosecution service, a National District judge, Luis Carrera Munoz has sent evangelical Pastor Ricci Natanael Rodriguez Salazarto to jail for three months on remand, accused of sexually abusing several minors from his congregation at the Benediction Center in Arroyo Hondo III in Santo Domingo. The judge ordered that the …

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Authorities in Puerto Plata are investigating the death of a German national, Rolf Erich Manfred Kobesch, 60, whose body was found stuffed inside a plastic barrel in his home in Sosua. The Public Prosecution service and the Police Criminal Investigation Department (DICRIM) are trying to establish if the crime was connected in any way with …

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A Quebec man, Michel Levis, 59, wanted on child sex offences in Canada has been arrested in Puerto Plata, according to a statement from the National Police. Interpol issued an arrest warrant in January 2012. Dominican police said it was unclear how long he had been in the country but they have been in contact …

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