2014 – Page 256

The Ministry of Public Health has announced the temporary shutdown of two plastic surgery clinics in Santo Domingo. A Puerto Rican resident in New York, 28-year old Beverly Ann Brigoni, is reported to have died after a liposuction procedure at one of the clinics on 20 February. The clinics that were closed are the Centro …

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Liana Guillon, a 41-year old French woman who says 11 kilos of cocaine were planted in her luggage when she left it in storage at her hotel in Puerto Plata, is now asking to serve the rest of her sentence in France. She was accused of being a drug trafficking mule and sentenced to eight …

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Vicente Bengoa Aranguiz, the son of the former Minister of Hacienda and general manager of BanReservas, the governmental commercial bank, was robbed at gunpoint on Saturday, 8 March. The incident took place as he was entering the building where his father Vicente Bengoa Albizu lives, at Calle Pio X, Urbanizacion Real, just a few meters …

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The Police are on the lookout for a Russian national named as Nikolai Baev, known to be the roommate of the late 31-year old Artur Alikberov in the Condominio Playa Arena Gorda, Residencial White Sands in Bavaro. A maintenance worker at the residential complex, Nelson Carrasco, said that Alikberov and Baev had had a heated …

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Merengue great Fernando Villalona is playing a concert-dance at Neptuno Restaurant in Boca Chica on Saturday, 29 March. Tickets are RD$1,000 per person if purchased in advance, and RD$1,500 at the door.

The Ministry of Culture is inviting theater lovers to the XIV International Amateur Theater Festival. The opening is this Tuesday, 11 March at 7pm at the Teatro Monina Sola, at the Centro Cultural Narciso Gonzalez in Santo Domingo. Carlota Carretero’s Escalera para Electra with the Teatro Rodante Dominicano will be staged. The Festival seeks to …

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In commemoration of International Women’s Day, which falls tomorrow, Saturday 8 March, the Presidency and the Ministry of Women decorated 13 women for their contributions to society in the areas of education, community and professional work, science and technology, politics and the arts. The awards were presented at the Presidential Palace this morning, Friday 7 …

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The Ministry of Public Works has announced the increase of the four tolls on the highways connecting Santo Domingo with the rest of the country, but did not set a date. The new fares will be increased from RD$30 to RD$100, says Minister of Public Works Gonzalo Castillo. Vehicles will need to pay RD$50 in …

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President Danilo Medina (Decree 62-14) has created 21 new generals and four rear admirals for the army, air force and navy and the police. The Dominican Republic is thought to be the Latin American country with the highest number of high-ranking military officers. The 11 new army generals are Ramon Enrique Jimenez Pena, Rafael Antonio …

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Minister of Tourism Francisco Javier Garcia has announced that the Ministry plans to renovate El Conde, the Colonial Zone’s main pedestrian shopping street, as part of the current urban renewal works. El Conde is not covered by the IDB-funded Colonial City project, but Garcia said it would not be left behind. Calle El Conde, once …

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