2014 – Page 2

The Constitutional Court has issued ruling 309-14 establishing that anyone who incurs in forgery or identity theft or any other fraudulent activity linked to their citizenship cannot benefit from the provisions for naturalization under Law 169-14 in cases. The fraudulent act nevertheless needs to be attributable to the beneficiary. The decision was issued in response …

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Tourism expert Juan Llado highlights that if the Dominican Republic is to continue to succeed in competing with regional tourism destinations it needs to incorporate the municipalities as part of the tourism product. Writing in Diario Libre on the municipalities known for their tourism development, he says that the central government, has taken a leading …

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Three electricity projects will benefit from US$1.6 million donated by the United States Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) for clean energy solutions in the DR. US Ambassador James Brewster signed the agreements with Oscar Pachedo of OC-Seni, Roberto Herrera of Consorcio Energetico Punta Cana nMacao (CEPM), and Jose Hernandez Castanos, of Trace International. Nathan Younge, …

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President Michel Martelly has nominated the former mayor of Port-au-Prince, Evans Paul to be the next Prime Minister. Paul ran for President in 2006. He needs to be approved by the legislature by 12 January 2015. If this does not occur, Martelly will automatically become prime minister and will rule Haiti by decree, as all …

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Gisela Cueto, in charge of extradition at the Attorney General Office, says that the competent jurisdiction to try former papal nuncio Josef Wesolowski is the Vatican, not the Polish authorities. Earlier this month, the Polish legal authorities complained that their Dominican counterparts had not delivered the documentation for them to open the case against Wesolowski …

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The Dominican Armada (Navy) has announced the arrest of 14 people (eight Haitians and six Dominicans) accused of illegal fishing in coastal waters off Montecristi. Vice Admiral Edmundo Nestor Felix Pimentel said the fishermen used equipment to capture marine species during their breeding season. The Armada confiscated the fishing boats and said they would continue …

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22-year old Jonas Alejandro Paulino Frias, the only one of six friends to survive the blaze of the mini-van in which they traveled from a party in Santo Domingo to Boca Chica beach in the early hours of Sunday 21 December, died of his severe burn wounds on Christmas day. The other victims were 22-year …

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Brothers 24-year old Omar and 20-year old Cesar Alejandro Lopez Mendez were killed in a SWAT Police operation on Saturday, 27 December 2014. They had been hiding in a house in Pedro Brand, off Km. 24 of the Duarte Highway. They are accused of murdering two police agents and other civilians and were being actively …

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Chicago Cubs shortstop Starlin Castro was questioned by the Montecristi prosecutors but later released after a shooting on Saturday 27 December in which six people were injured and one man, Jeremias Jerez, was killed at the Ocean Club nightclub in Castro’s hometown of Montecristi . His brother, Jeffrey Castro was arrested. Starlin Castro said he …

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Visit the Colonial City this evening, Monday 29 December 2014 and enjoy good jazz music by Sandy Gabriel & Pop Jazz Ensemble at the Cafe Bar of Casa de Teatro in Santo Domingo’s Colonial City. Guest performer is Cristal Marie. Tickets are RD$700.