2013 – Page 317

Passengers on a recent Sunwing flight flying from Halifax, Nova Scotia to the Dominican Republic had to spend the evening in Bermuda, after a father, mother and son refused to put out their cigarettes. The family apparently refused to listen to the crew and follow new non-smoking flight regulations. The pilot chose to make an …

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“Half of the public car drivers in the country take the gas tank for boiling their plantains and put it into their cars to go out and get passengers,” announced transport union leader Antonio Marte, as reported in Listin Diario. The statement illustrates the fact that there is no legally authorized institution that checks and …

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Supermarket shoppers now need an estimated extra RD$2,000 or RD$3,000 in order to make their bi-weekly purchases. The fiscal reform (which means “more taxes”) has entered into full force after a grace period during which some supermarkets decided to absorb the 2% and 8% increases in the value added tax (ITBIS) ended this weekend. Reporters …

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The confrontations in the PRD have reached a deadlock that leaves no space for the conflicting factions to get together. As a result, the breakup of the party is only waiting on the proper paperwork. The only missing thing is to find out who takes the larger piece, and the most important this is who …

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Two officers, one from the Army and the other from the National Police were shot and killed in separate incidents in Moca early Sunday morning, 3 February, leading the police to pull in a dozen people for investigation. The victims were Lieutenant Colonel Domingo Antonio Perez Paulino, 46, an inspector at the 2 May Penitentiary …

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Selling drugs in the Guajimia barrio of Santo Domingo West appears to have been a family business. Over the weekend, several family members of deceased alleged murderer and drug dealer Junior Javier Minaya German, a.k.a. Gilbert, were sent to preventive custody. They were arrested early Saturday morning, 2 February after a search by authorities found …

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A 4.1 tremor affected the northern part of the island yesterday afternoon, as reported by the Seismological Laboratory at the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo (UASD). The lab reported that at 6:33 the earth shook in the area of Puerto Plata, Santiago and the surrounding areas. The quake was located at 19.8 North and 71.1 …

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The team representing the Dominican Republic this year – the Leones del Escogido -has played and won all three games so far in the Caribbean World Series in Hermosillo, Mexico. In the first game, on Friday 1 February, the Leones, behind the great pitching of Angel Castro (on loan from the Aguilas Cibaenas) and a …

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President Danilo Medina cut the symbolic ribbon marking the opening of the new building to house the Post Graduate Studies Department and the new International Center for Innovation in Technology at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica Madre y Maestra (PUCMM) University in Santo Domingo yesterday, Thursday 31 January. The new 10,903 square meter building was constructed …

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Former President of Brazil, Luiz Inacio (Lula) da Silva is in Santo Domingo to take part in a conference at the invitation of the American Chamber of Commerce in the DR. President Danilo Medina welcomed the statesman at the Presidential Palace last night Thursday 31 January and he attended the National Youth Awards ceremony at …

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