2014 – Page 300

The Maunaloa nightclub in Santo Domingo’s Centro de los Heroes has announced a performance by merengue star Eddy Herrera on 8 February. On 14 February, Anthony Santos is booked to appear with his show ‘A lo intimo’. On 28 February, Anthony Rios takes the stage with a show of ballads and boleros. The Maunaloa is …

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The Quisqueya Auto Club, with the backing of the Armed Forces Ministry, is organizing the 15th Rally Frontera 4×4 Aventura 2014 from Wednesday 26 February to Sunday, 2 March. The event is also being sponsored by EcoPetroleo Dominicana. Promoter Jose Liz and technical director, Rear Admiral Lazaro Garcia Nieto, say that this is an international …

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As is traditional, DR1 Daily News will not be updated over the La Altagracia Day long weekend. While Monday, 20 January is a working day, many will take the day off from normal activities converting it into a five-day long weekend. This results in less than the normal flow of news. Breaking daily news can …

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The Ministry of Education has announced a 10% wage increase for public schoolteachers, effective in paychecks issued on 25 January. Minister Carlos Amarante Baret recalled that in 2013, public school teachers received a 36% wage increase. Amarante Baret told journalists that he accepted there were deficiencies in the quality of public school teachers. He said …

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Speaking at a press conference yesterday, Thursday 16 January, Central Bank governor Hector Valdez Albizu announced that the Dominican economy had grown by 4.1% in 2013. Valdez Albizu said that all the actual figures are better than the International Monetary Fund estimates for the Dominican Republic. He said that inflation was 3.88%, which was well …

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Dominican-produced chicken and egg exports have resumed through border control entry points to Haiti, as reported by Minister of Agriculture Luis Ramon Rodriguez yesterday, Thursday 16 January. He said that both nations had agreed to a phyto-sanitary protocol to regulate bilateral trade. The minister said that Dominican poultry producers are investing in a poultry farm …

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Attorney general Francisco Dominguez Brito says that public hospitals report admitting 65 underage children for alcoholic poisoning over the Christmas-New Year holidays. He said the courts have already started procedures against the parents of two of the children affected by alcohol. He said that in cases where a minor dies for this reason, homicide charges …

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The Police have received 300 new pickup patrol units for the use in the New 911 Emergency and Security System. The units were delivered by Minister of the Presidency Gustavo Montalvo to Police chief Major General Manuel Castro Castillo. Also present was Minister of Interior and Police Jose Ramon Fadul, and Attorney General Francisco Dominguez …

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The Constitutional Court has ruled that the Colegio de Abogados, the professional association for lawyers in the Dominican Republic, violates the Constitution. With Ruling TC/0274/13 dated 26 December 2013, it has ordered Congress to revise the law that created the college. The recourse for review by the Constitutional Court was submitted by lawyer Manuel Ramon …

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Neuro-psychiatrist Ricardo Espaillat has been recognized as a distinguished fellow, the highest honor granted by the by the American Psychiatric Association. Ricardo K. Espaillat, M.D. is a long-standing fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology in the area of General Psychiatry, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, and Psychosomatic …

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