2013 – Page 300

Despite appearing on the list of owners said to have benefitted from the proposed deal President Danilo Medina authorized in power of attorney to sign for the Dominican state, Virginia Read Escobar is denying that her family is disputing land ownership in the area. She says the family opposes the development of the fragile beach …

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The Ministry of Public Health announced that today, Thursday 21 February is the National Anti Rabies Vaccination day. The campaign is targeting a million cats and dogs across the country. In a press conference, Rafael Schiffino, Deputy Minister of Collective Health, said that between tomorrow, Friday 22 and Sunday 24 February they would set up …

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Central Electoral Board (JCE) member Jose Angel Aquino will propose the reopening of the overseas offices in major cities in the United States and Europe. He said that many Dominicans living overseas were in the process of legalizing their immigration status and the JCE could not leave them helpless. Aquino said he would present his …

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Everything has come to a standstill at the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo (UASD) with the 72-hour strike by the administrative workers started by the Association of University Employees. The lecturers are also entering their second day on strike. Students have said that it is unfair as it is they who suffer and officers from …

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The Police have announced that members of the Central Department of Criminal Investigations (DICRIM), will carry out an investigation to establish why two children, aged 7 and 9, drowned in an abandoned swimming pool in a sports complex in La Romana. The children, from Villa San Carlos area in La Romana, were Willy Alvarez Simon, …

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Police spokesman General Maximo Baez Aybar says that several ceiling lamps, bronze plates and Chinese vases have been stolen from an exhibit in the Columbus Lighthouse. He said that they still did not know exactly what was taken, but that the robbery occurred last Sunday, 17 February and is still being investigated, including questioning the …

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There has been a wave of nighttime robberies on the highway from Santo Domingo to Samana, specifically at the crossroads of Monte Plata and Bayaguana and at the entrance to the community of Gonzalo. The robberies have been reported occurring after the last tollbooth, some nine kilometers from the end of the highway where it …

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The unions have announced that they will be looking for a general salary increase of 30% in the discussions that will involve employers and the Ministry of Labor starting in March. The CASC, the CNTD and the CNUS have said that this level of increase should be applied in the case of public and private …

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A couple from Cardiff, Wales, have launched a campaign to try and get their daughter released from prison in the Dominican Republic. They say Nicola Reyes has been held without charge for seven months accused of killing her husband Jorge, a Dominican national. Reyes was imprisoned in Puerto Plata for supposedly running over her husband …

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Miguelina Mendoza Ramirez, a judge in the Criminal Court in San Pedro de Macoris has announced that the prison authorities acted illegally in cutting rap singer Vakero’s hair after he was sentenced to preventive custody in San Pedro de Macoris. She made the announcement following a complaint presented by Vakero, whose real name is Manuel …

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