2014 – Page 62

The executive director of civil society group Citizenship Participation (Participacion Ciudadana) Rosalia Sosa speculates that all the talk about re-election is merely a ploy by the government to distract Dominicans from focusing on more pressing problems. In her opinion, despite President Danilo Medina’s high popularity, there are no conditions for yet another constitutional change. Sosa …

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PLD senator Felix Bautista has reached an agreement with economist Jaime Aristy Escuder and lawyer Jose Alejandro Ayuso to drop the defamation suit following the publication of a book on the Sunland financing operation described in the “The Dark Side of Sun Land.” Aristy and Ayuso signed a 10-part agreement: 1) Jaime Aristy Escuder, author …

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Interviewed by Julio Martinez Pozo on the Toque Final TV program, the Ministry of Interior and Police deputy minister for social affairs Washington Gonzalez Nina said that 74,775 foreigners have entered their biometric data at the 24 National Foreigner Legalization Plan offices. Most of them are undocumented Haitian immigrants. http://www.elnuevodiario.com.do/app/article.aspx?id=394482

Army chief Jose Matos de la Cruz and the director of military intelligence (G2) Victor Mercedes Cepeda, Commander of the Fifth Brigade of the Army based in Barahona General Milton de Jesus Frias Gomez, and pilot Rodriguez Romero survived a helicopter crash-landing in a rural area of Pedernales in the southwest of the country on …

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On Friday 10 October 2014 the National Police reported the seizure of 190 boxes of Capital brand cigarettes with 10,000 units in each box that had been smuggled into the country. The cigarettes were stored in a private home on Prolongacion Desiderio Arias corner Dr. Defillo in the Santo Domingo neighborhood of Bella Vista. 39-year …

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A report in Listin Diario today, Monday 13 October 2014, points to extreme violence in growing numbers of crimes that are said to involve Haitians, mostly against their compatriots. The newspaper reports that this year, more than 30 brutal murders have affected Dominican neighborhoods, spreading fear among residents. The victims were murdered with machetes, knives, …

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Punta Cana International Airport (PUJ) reports there were no injuries in the landing difficulties experienced by an Air Century (ACSA) Jet Stream plane that landed at the airport around 8:45pm on Sunday, 12 October 2014. The plane arrived from San Juan in Puerto Rico. The airport reported the plane experienced an incident that caused it …

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The Dominican Republic national women’s volleyball team tied for fifth place with Russia in the FIVB World Championship 2014 that ended on Sunday, 12 October 2014 in Milan, Italy with a win by the United States (ranked 2nd in the world). China (ranked 5th) was second, and Brazil (ranked 1st) was third, followed by Italy …

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Rains are forecast for the Dominican Republic as a tropical wave approaches, mainly affecting the northeast and southeast. Next, tropical storm Gonzalo is forecast to cross Puerto Rico and then convert to hurricane status as it moves north. As a result, the east coast of the Dominican Republic could be affected by heavy rains and …

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The US consulate is inviting US citizens living in Puerto Plata to a meeting with US Ambassador to the Dominican Republic James (Wally) Brewster on Wednesday, 15 October at 10am at the Lifestyle Holidays Vacation Club, Cofresi Beach, Puerto Plata. US citizens will be also able to meet with embassy representatives from US Citizenship and …

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