2014 – Page 292

Yesterday, Tuesday 28 January, a judge in Moca ordered the release of the main suspect in the case of the murder of Ramon Antonio Sanchez Grullon. Julio Sanchez, son of the deceased, was freed on bail of RD$500,000 and periodic court appearances for six months. His brother and sister, Victor and Dalida Sanchez, who are …

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Emilio Bonifacio, who plays for the Kansas City Royals in Major League Baseball, put an end to the reign of the Leones del Escogido in Santo Domingo. The Tigres del Licey had not won a championship since the 2007-2008 Championship, eight years ago, and had lost their record as the team that won the most …

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Santo Domingo’s Galeria 360 shopping mall on Av. John F Kennedy and the National Conservatory of Music will be playing “A Concert of Clowns” this Saturday, 1 February at 6:30pm. The music will be played by the Juan Pablo Duarte Symphonic Orchestra, an orchestra of young musicians directed by Maestro Dante Cucurullo. Cucurullo said that …

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President Danilo Medina attended the inauguration ceremony for Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez Alvarado at the Tiburcio Carias Andino National Stadium in Tegucigalpa on Monday, 27 January. The new President is only 44 years old, making him the youngest in his nation’s history. Presidency Minister Gustavo Montalvo, Presidency Administrative Minister Jose Ramon Peralta, Interior and …

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Minister of Agriculture Luis Ramon Rodriguez says that the Medina government is making funds and support available for the installation of greenhouse parks. He predicted that the country would have 13 billion square meters producing vegetables in protected environments in the near future. He said that the project for farm reconversion in San Juan de …

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Constitutional Court president Milton Ray Guevara spoke out about the Constitutional Court ruling 168-13 on criteria for Dominican nationality and the foreigner legalization plan yesterday, Monday 27 January during his keynote speech on the occasion of the court’s first anniversary. He said that the ruling applies the principle of favorability because it orders the implementation …

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According to Gisela Cueto Gonzalez, head of the Extradition Department at the DR Attorney General’s office, the United States government is open to renegotiating the extradition treaty that has been in effect since 1910. The Dominican government wants to make changes related to the trial, the distribution of seized assets when drug trafficking-related, or other …

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Minister of Public Health Freddy Maduro has announced that the Ministry has set up a series of measures to prevent the Chikungunya virus, now present throughout the Caribbean, from entering the Dominican Republic. No cases have been reported here yet. He said that in December last year the Pan-American Health Organization issued an epidemiological alert …

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The Supreme Court of Justice (SCJ) has submitted a proposal to the Chamber of Deputies proposing the regulation of the practice of lawyers and notary publics in the Dominican Republic. The proposal says that in order to practice as a lawyer, the individual needs to have a degree or a doctorate in law and have …

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The United States government is making US$184.9 million available to contribute to improvements in citizen safety and promote economic growth in the DR. USAID representative in the DR Alexandria Panehal presented the US government agency’s development and cooperation strategy for the next five years. Speaking yesterday, Panehal said that the three development objectives were to …

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