2014 – Page 108

The director of the Metropolitan Transport Authority (AMET) Brigadier General Pablo Antonio Pujols called on the public today, Friday 22 August 2014, to use their seatbelts and to stop talking on cell phones when driving on the streets and highways of the country. Over the last 24 hours AMET agents have imposed fines on 70 …

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A man identified only as “Puyu” was shot and beaten to death by a mob yesterday, Thursday 21 August 2014, and another man who accompanied him was wounded. This incident occurred in the Caimito el Rosario sector in the city of Moca when the two men mugged a young woman in a small betting parlor …

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The Dominican national basketball team traveled to Madrid yesterday, Thursday 21 August 2014 to play its final preparation games before the start of the FIBA World Cup. The DR, which is ranked 26th in the world, is one of 24 teams that qualified for the championship. The warm-up games are against Senegal, the Philippines and …

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The big race takes place tomorrow, Saturday, 23 August 2014 at 5:30pm in Parque Mirador del Sur, Santo Domingo. Registration fee: RD$500 at Sportline stores at Agora, Sambil, Megacentro, to be paid 18-22 August 2014. See http://maratonistascocuyos.org

Merengue greats Wilfrido Vargas and Fernando Villalona take the stage tomorrow, Saturday, 23 August 2014 at Puerto Plata Village in Playa Dorada in a concert sponsored by the Ministry of Tourism. Tel 809 320-4012. For more on ongoing and upcoming events, see http://www.dr1.com/calendar

President Danilo Medina, the Ministry of Education and the Dominican Association of Journalists (CDP) honored 70-year old journalist Juan Bolivar Diaz with the National Journalism Award 2014 at the Presidential Palace yesterday, Wednesday 20 August 2014. Attending were Minister of Education Carlos Amarante Baret and the CDP president Olivo de Leon. De Leon took advantage …

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Writing in Diario Libre today, Thursday 21 August 2014, financial expert Alejandro Fernandez Whipple says that the governmental BanReservas has broken the mold of giants losing agility and is making waves for its dynamic influence instead. He reports that of every RD$100 lent to companies, households or individuals, 76% was lent by BanReservas over the …

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The Metropolitan Transport Administration (AMET) has announced it is suspending the RD$500 charge for issuing traffic accident reports as of today, Thursday 21 August 2014. The report is a requisite for insurance claims. El Nacional reported on the charge yesterday, Wednesday 20 August 2014, explaining that it was required of both parties involved in traffic …

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In his editorial column today, Thursday 21 August 2014, Diario Libre executive editor Adriano Miguel Tejada shares comments made by a “rich, educated resident of Boston” who happens to be a Haitian national and who sat next to him during a recent flight back to the DR. The Haitian blamed the Haitian-DR problem on Dominican …

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