2014 – Page 244

The Dominican Republic will be hosting the Qualification Tournament for the 2014 Central American and Caribbean Sports Games on 2-3 April 2014. The CACSO Games are scheduled to take place in November 2014 in Veracruz, Mexico. The competitions will take place at the Juan Pablo Duarte Olympic Center’s Volleyball Pavilion and Combat Pavilion. Immediately after …

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Mexican singer Alejandro Fernandez (El Potrillo) is booked for a concert in Santo Domingo as part of his Confidencias World Tour that is taking him to 19 countries. The Latin Grammy winning and multi-platinum selling Mexican superstar is promoting his new Confidencias album that debuted at #1 on the Bill Board Latin charts. The production …

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The Virgin Mary in the Americas exhibition is now open at the La Altagarcia Museum at the Basilica Nuestra Senora de la Altagracia in Higuey. The 30 paintings are by Dominican naif painter Jose Morillo and are in different formats. Morillo’s works are exhibited at the Modern Art Museum in Cartagena, Colombia and the Museo …

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President Danilo Medina met with the Minister of the Interior and Police Jose Ramon Fadul (Monchy) and the President’s Legal Advisor, Cesar Pina Toribio yesterday Wednesday 19 March to discuss the draft naturalization bill. Pina Toribio told the press that no decisions had yet been made. Apparently, President Medina has taken the lead in the …

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A total of 2,420 Haitian families, or 12,642 people, are settled about 98% illegally on the 15-kilometer strip on the Dominican side of the five border provinces with Haiti. The families have been there for between two and ten years. Some 89% cook with firewood or vegetable charcoal, and 52% burn their garbage, causing serious …

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Architect Maribel Villalona says that the remains of the first aqueduct of the New World have been found during excavation work for the Colonial City renovation program. A 100-meter-long tank and other remains of what is said to be the first aqueduct were found two weeks ago in excavations on Calle Isabel la Catolica, on …

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The Department Ground Transportation (DGTT) is calling on the National Police to ensure that its own agents renew their driver’s licenses in order to have the moral authority to ask civilians for this document. “The military and police have to adopt controls on driving licenses, so that they can have the moral authority to require …

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A special commission that is studying the bill that seeks to declare the Loma Miranda a National Park says that it will hold public hearings in order to listen to opinions from all sectors. The chairman of the Senate commission, Rafael Calderon (PLD-Azua) said that the initiative for holding these hearings in La Vega is …

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Everton Resources has announced the start of a core drilling program on its 100%-owned Ampliacion Pueblo Viejo concession located next to the Pueblo Viejo gold mine (Barrick/Goldcorp) in the central Dominican Republic. Andre Audet, Everton’s Chairman and CEO, said that the drilling program would consist of 10-15 holes, 200 to 300 meters deep, along the …

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Otto Gonzalez and Milton Morrison of the Dominican Association of Electricity Industries (ADIE) told reporters from Listin Diario that the sector needs at least US$1.5 billion over the next four or five years in order to provide better energy service to the population. Gonzalez said that the industry needs an investment of between US$600 and …

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