2013 – Page 223

The Supreme Court and President Danilo Medina have ordered the extradition of two men to the United States where they will face multiple charges of drug trafficking in the Eastern and Southern District Courts of New York. Listin Diario reports that the accused are Ricardo Almonte Bernabe, the son of the former convict, bachata singer …

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The Ministry of Culture and the Museum of Modern Art are inviting artists to participate in the Museum of Modern Art’s 27th Visual Art Biennial. The event will be hosted at the MAM starting 16 August 2013. The Biennial is open to Dominican artists and foreigners who have resided in the country for at least …

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The La Fiesta hall of the Hotel Jaragua in Santo Domingo is preparing a show with all the glamour of Hollywood for Saturday, 18 May. Kool & The Gang vocalist JT Taylor will be performing. Tickets for sale at Uepa Tickets.

DJ Alex Kenji from Italy is coming for a Saturday, 18 May performance at the Guacara Taina cave at the Mirador del Sur Park in Santo Domingo. He will be accompanied by local DJ Luk Follin and DJ Ideal from California. 10pm. For more on ongoing and upcoming events, see http://dr1.com/calendar

National Budget director Luis Reyes says that the government will need one more year of austerity to consolidate the accounts and to reduce the fiscal deficit over the short, medium and long term. Reyes said that the government was moving forward with this task and would not abandon fiscal discipline despite making major investments in …

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The Central Bank will start freeing up RD$20 billion in bank legal reserve money to stimulate the Dominican economy. The expected injection is well received by businesses. Ligia Bonetti, president of the Association of Industries (AIRD), says that this measure will allow some breathing space whilst more permanent economic policies are drawn up. She said …

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The Dominican ambassador in Washington, Anibal de Castro, has revealed that President Danilo Medina has asked the United States for support to implement a program to help Dominicans who are deported from the US, after serving prison sentences there, to rejoin Dominican society. Castro said that Medina discussed the issue with US President Barack Obama …

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Today’s Diario Libre, Tuesday 14 May, publishes an open letter from a private citizen, Norman Sainz, to President Danilo Medina. Sainz warns that the Cibao-San Juan de la Maguana highway has been discussed since the days of the Trujillo dictatorship and was rejected for the same reasons it should be today. He writes that instead …

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Former President Leonel Fernandez was in Paris yesterday, Monday 13 May where he formally opened the new office of the Global Foundation for Democracy and Development (Funglode) at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris. For the occasion, a roundtable “From Social Sciences Research to Implementing Public Policies” made up of prominent sociologists and politicians discussed how …

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A report in Diario Libre today, Tuesday 14 May suggests that the Medina administration may have given in to a request by the Universidad del Caribe (Unicaribe) to use public space for parking on the Malecon. In contrast with other universities that have invested in parking buildings, Unicaribe early on sets its eyes on the …

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