2013 – Page 233

The Dominican government has announced the formal inauguration of the first National Firearms System (SISNA), equipped with a hi-tech forensic ballistic and biometric laboratory. The lab work will help police investigators and prosecutors solve crimes. The lab can analyze bullets and bullet impacts to establish whether a certain firearm or tool was used in the …

Read more…

Differences between the government and Barrick Pueblo Viejo gold mine continued yesterday, Thursday 2 May. El Nacional newspaper reported that the government had retained a shipment at Las Americas International Airport, citing more irregularities in the shipment detected by the Department of Customs and the Ministry of Industry and Commerce. However, several hours later, Barrick …

Read more…

Economist Pavel Isa Contreras reports that an analysis of Dominican exports from since 2006 shows there were more lost opportunities than accomplishments. The study showed that there were declines in 53.5% of the exported products between 2006 and 2011. Despite the country’s free trade agreements with the Caribbean, Central America and the United States, Dominican …

Read more…

The number of cruise ship tourists visiting Samana could double after the construction of a modern dock, say promoters of the project. At present, tourists need to be ferried from the ship to the port of Samana. Jose Gregorio Cabrera, speaking for the Samana Marine Terminals Consortium (Temarsam) said that the terminal would be ready …

Read more…

Metropolitan Transport Authority (AMET) policemen fined 20 car drivers and seized 25 vehicles for obstructing public space when parking on Winston Churchill-Jimenez Moya avenues in Santo Domingo. The vehicles were sent to the Canodromo El Coco. AMET spokesman Colonel Jacobo Mateo Moquete said that the operation was carried out together with municipal workers. General Juan …

Read more…

Former President Leonel Fernandez, who is president of the ruling PLD party, and the president of the PRD opposition party Miguel Vargas met at the PLD offices yesterday Thursday 2 May. President Leonel Fernandez was photographed with Vargas wearing a blue-colored tie. He also wore a blue tie when signing a previous agreement with Vargas, …

Read more…

Brandone Francis could be the new Dominican star in US basketball. Affected by injuries during his first months in the United States, he has only just started being followed by the US sports press. Several universities have offered the Jacksonville, Florida (Arlington Country Day School) senior scholarships after he was chosen most value player at …

Read more…

Sosua: Make a Better World is a new documentary in which co-director Renee Silverman (with Peter Miller) mirrors real-life challenges faced by present-day Dominican teenagers in Washington Heights, with the situation of the Jewish refugees who moved to Sosua in the 1930s. The film also examines the contradiction between Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo’s rescue of …

Read more…

The country’s leading annual cultural extravaganza, the Santo Domingo International Book Fair continues this weekend, Saturday 4 and Sunday 5 May. Cultural events are taking place all over the Plaza de la Cultura show grounds, together with book sales and free evening performances at the National Theater. For more on ongoing and upcoming events, see …

Read more…

In a message to the nation on the occasion of International Workers’ Day, 1 May, President Danilo Medina called for a pact for development between businesspeople, workers and the government to improve production and foster development. He said that this agreement would create an ambience of peace and harmony that would guarantee permanent and decent …

Read more…