2013 – Page 216

Diario Libre reports on the work of the Fundacion Comunitaria de Saneamiento that is exchanging food for used plastics in some of the capital’s poorest neighborhoods. Residents of the Gualey and Simon Bolivar barrios have enthusiastically joined the hunt for used plastics, reducing the volume of garbage that ends up in the Ozama River. Funsaco …

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The National Drug Control Agency (DNCD) has confirmed the death of a 58-year old Colombian, Pablo Enrique Porras Avila in a room in the Discovery hotel on Calle Arzobispo Nouel at the corner with Palo Hincado, on Santo Domingo’s Independence Park on 11 May, as reported in Listin Diario. The DNCD said he died when …

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Italo Angelini Liranzo has issues pending in courts since 2005, on charges of counterfeiting and other crimes. He apparently is a counterfeiter of some repute, good at cloning credit cards and other documents. However, National District prosecutors have never sent a single case of his to trial. An article in today’s Hoy, Wednesday 22 May, …

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Today’s Listin Diario, Wednesday 22 May, reports that a man with 32 cases for assaults and robberies on his rap sheet, with nine cases that have gone to court, was wounded during an armed robbery on Sunday, 19 May in which a security guard, retired Police lieutenant Faustino Medina Mendez lost his life and his …

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The Center for Emergency Operations (COE) issued a green alert for seven provinces yesterday, Tuesday 21 May, as a precautionary measure due to the rains caused by a low-pressure trough and tropical low-pressure wave over the country today, Wednesday 22 and tomorrow Thursday 23 May. The provinces under alert are San Pedro de Macoris, Monte …

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The opening gala Agroalimentaria 2013 exhibition takes place tonight, Wednesday 22 May at the La Fiesta hall of the Hotel Jaragua in Santo Domingo. As of tomorrow, Thursday 23 to Saturday 25 May it is time for talking farm business at the hotel. The event is the leading international platform for doing business in the …

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President Danilo Medina is planning changes to the Police reform bill that was sent to the Senate on Friday 17 May, as reported in Listin Diario. The bill is expected to be returned to the Executive Branch where changes will be incorporated prior to its review by the legislators. The bill in the Senate proposes …

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On Monday, 20 May President Danilo Medina instructed a newly appointed Special Commission to counteract the spread of the virulent fungus known coffee leaf rust or roya. The fungus is known to spread due to a lack of preventive measures and the effects of climate change. As climate change has brought warmer and wetter weather, …

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Traveling inland to the north coast is getting easier. The Medina administration has just announced that RD$700 million is being made available to improve the San Francisco de Macoris-Rio San Juan highway. This is in addition to another RD$600 million for other road works in the province. Yesterday, Monday 20 May, engineer Miguel Pimentel Kareh …

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President Danilo Medina will travel to Ecuador on Friday, 24 May to attend the inauguration of Rafael Correa’s second presidential term. Correa recently visited the Dominican Republic on the occasion of Ecuador being the special guest country at this year’s National Book Fair. The Presidency says that Medina will depart early in the morning and …

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