2014 – Page 159

Football fever has caught on in the Dominican Republic in recent years and fans can cheer on their favorite teams at local movie houses. Palacio de Cine is showing the FIFA World Cup Brazil 2014 games live on giant screens with HD at several cinemas nationwide. The selected movie houses are Palacio Blue Mall (Santo …

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Reggaeton duo Zion y Lennox will be at Hard Rock Cafe Santo Domingo at the Blue Mall. The show will take place on Saturday, 5 July from 11pm. The cafe is located on the fourth floor of Blue Mall at Winston Churchill and Av. Gustavo Mejia Ricart. For more on upcoming events, see www.dr1.com/calendar

Stage Door: Barcelo con hielo written by Marco Antonio Rodriguez is an Off-Broadway play in Spanish staged by Repertorio Espanol in New York. The play, which combines public history and private pain, is getting good reviews in the US press. Barcelo con hielo is a family drama in which two sons, the responsible Sergio, a …

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The Dominican Republic’s women’s team (FIVB ranking 8th in the world) defeated the United States women’s team (ranked 2nd) for the title of the Women’s Pan American Volleyball Cup on Thursday, 18 June 2014 in Mexico. The Dominican women won 3-1 (25-18, 25-18, 17-25, 25-21). Last year the US defeated the Dominican Republic in the …

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The Third World Cocoa Conference will be held in the Dominican Republic in March 2016, announced Federico Cuello, the Dominican ambassador to the United Kingdom. More than 1,000 delegates from 30 countries voted unanimously for hosting the event in Punta Cana. The board and executive director Jean-Marc Anga of the International Cocoa Organization (ICCO) has …

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The former president of the Dominican Telecommunications Institute (Indotel), now senator Jose Rafael Vargas (PLD-Espaillat /Moca) has denounced the fact that Dominican consumers have to pay the highest broadband rates in Latin America due what he says is a lack of investment and expansion of the service. He said that when he left Indotel there …

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Graduating from the UASD medical school is no guarantee for practicing the profession, according to a report in Diario Libre. First, recent graduates find it very difficult to get one of the limited openings for the public hospital internship that is required to get official authorization to practice. The latest statistical report (2010-2011) on degrees …

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Heads of state and government from Central America and the Dominican Republic will be meeting in Punta Cana this Friday, 27 June 2014. Minister of Foreign Relations Carlos Morales Troncoso says that all heads of state of Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama and the Dominican Republic will be attending the Paradisus …

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During his visit to the Maritima Dominican solar energy facility, the largest in the country, consisting of 1,460 panels with a generation capacity of 510 kilowatts per hour, US Vice President Joe Biden called for major reforms to the energy sector in the Caribbean as a way of attracting private investment in alternative energy and …

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