2014 – Page 254

The Dominican Republic and the Kingdom of Morocco have agreed to the content of a cooperation agreement for maritime fishing and aquaculture in order to stimulate production. During a ceremony at the Ministry of Foreign Relations yesterday, Monday 10 March, the director of Cooperation for Legal Matters for Marine Fishing in Morocco, Zahra Rochdi, and …

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The Dominican Aviation Institute (IDAC) will inaugurate two air traffic control centers, one at the Las Americas International Airport (SDQ) and the other at Punta Cana International Airport (PUJ), with an investment of around US$14 million. According to a press release, the Director General of IDAC, Alejandro Herrera, said that both centers would have the …

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The government has started building a workshop/school for artisans in Bahoruco in the southwestern province of Barahona. The school will train people to work the endemic semi-precious stone, thus boosting the local economy. The director of Banca Solidaria, Mayra Jimenez, inaugurated the construction of the building which will cost RD$31.5 million and will be staffed …

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The Dominican government telecommunications regulatory authority, INDOTEL announced last week that it has approved the sale of Tricom to the Luxembourg-based investment fund Altice Group. Altice Group has also purchased Orange telecommunications operations in the Dominican Republic and will be merging both. Indotel reported that it gave its permission for the transfer of 88% of …

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The president of the National Drug Council (CND) and the Money Laundering Committee, Fidias Aristy, is opposed to the proposal that the Attorney General office should administer assets that have been impounded in drug trafficking or money laundering cases. He said that there was a need for a transparent administration system for these goods and …

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National District judge Elka Reyes has released a group of people accused of being members of an international drug network operating from South America to the Caribbean and the United States. The group comprised Dominicans, Colombians, Venezuelans, Puerto Ricans, US citizens, Jamaicans and Bahamians, including the president of Caribair. The judge released them from preventive …

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The National Investigations Department (DNI) has arrested an Italian fugitive from justice Giulio de Angelis. De Angelis was being sought to complete a 20-year prison sentence in Italy for raping three employees in his company in Trento. DNI chief Major General Maximo William Munoz Delgado said that de Angelis was located in Bayahibe and tried …

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Barcelo Desalia, the leading Dominican electronic music fiesta, is on this year for 15 March at the Cabeza de Toro beach in Punta Cana. The organizers say it will be a technological extravaganza with a robotized stage of 40 meters, interactive mapping, 85,000 watts of sound, 150,000 watts of automated lighting, 120-inch HD 4k projection …

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The theater season begins this Friday, 14 March at the Bellas Artes Maximo Aviles main hall in Santo Domingo. The season is dedicated to the late Dominican playwright Rafael Villalona and will feature three of his best plays. These are La noche de los asesinos (14, 15, 16 March), El pagador de promesas (20, 21, …

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Teatro Las Mascaras, the off-Broadway-style theater in Santo Domingo’s Colonial City is staging La luz de un cigarillo (“To the Light of a Cigarette”) on Fridays and Saturdays at 8:30pm and Sundays at 6:30pm through Sunday, 27 April: The play has three Soberano Awards nominations in the categories of Best Actress, Best Director and Best …

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