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A group of eight Dominicans are accused of being responsible for major bank robberies in December 2012 and February this year. Fox News reports on how the technical sophistication shown by the Dominicans has impressed cybercrime investigators. The Dominicans, aged between 22-35, are accused of having been involved in the recent US$45 million dollar ATM …

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Five people died yesterday, Sunday 12 May and several were injured when the pickup truck in which they were traveling blew a tire and flipped over on the Yapur Dumit Avenue, near the Barranquita Sports Complex, in the southern part of Santiago. According to Civil Defense personnel in the province, the number of dead could …

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The National Meteorological Office (Onamet) is forecasting heavy showers over a lot of the country today, especially in the afternoon and evening. Most of this activity is expected in the northeast, southeast and over the Central Mountains. There should also be a slight drop in temperatures, making for a pleasant evening. The low-pressure system to …

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Dominican Week 2013 in the United States starts today, Monday 13 May with the raising of the Dominican flag at the residence of the Dominican ambassador in Washington, D.C., Anibal de Castro and the formal presentation at the World Bank of “Doing Business”o a report that stresses today’s Dominican Republic. The event, organized by the …

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Dominican guitarist and composer/singer Alex Ferreira is back in the Dominican Republic and will appear at the opening of the new Juan Bosch auditorium at the National Library in Santo Domingo. He will perform some of the songs he was best known for before leaving the country, along with others from his new album “Afan”. …

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Santo Domingo’s off-Broadway style theater, Teatro Guloya is presenting “La Peste de estos dias,” a comedy all about pain. It is written by award-winning Dominican playwright Angelo Valenzuela and directed by Claudio Rivera, who just received the ACE and ATI awards as best guest director in New York. Tickets are for sale at the theater …

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A joint public-private initiative to build a residential neighborhood with 25,000 dwellings has been announced by the Presidential Commission for the Development of the Trust and Mortgage Market. The master plan and infrastructure plans for the model development, which will be called Ciudad Juan Bosch were published yesterday, Thursday 9 May with an invitation to …

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The Ministry of Public Health has announced that the Presidency plans to build 50 Primary Health Care Diagnostic Centers nationwide. The works will be carried out by the Supervisory Office of Public Works of the Presidency (OISOE), announced engineer Miguel Pimentel Kareh at the Presidential Palace. Minister of Public Health Freddy Hidalgo said that the …

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Fernando Fernandez says that Customs could lift the US$1 billion fine that would have been levied against Barrick Pueblo Viejo for violations in their first shipments, following the renegotiations. Fernandez said that Customs would be installing a laboratory to guarantee that the shipments made by Barrick contain exactly what is stated in the declaration. Mechanisms …

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In an interview with El Dia today, Friday 10 May, sexual workers complained that the new measure announced by Prosecutor General Francisco Dominguez Brito that clients soliciting prostitutes would be arrested and their details put on file has scared away their clients. As reported in El Dia, prostitutes working in the Centro de los Heroes …

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