2014 – Page 70

Judges of the Penal Chamber of Santo Domingo Sarah Veras, Yissell Soto and Leonardo Recio Tinedo have sentenced Bolivian Luis Antonio Baldelomar Tirina (Tony) to 30 years in jail for the 28 March 2010 murder of Tadaomi Nakai, representative of the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) in the Dominican Republic. This is the maximum penalty …

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Despite losing to China and Japan, the Dominican national women’s team achieved the feat of making it to the third round in the FIVB World Championship. The DR will now face China, Italy, Brazil, the United States and Russia. The championship brought together the best 24 teams, including four from Asia, two from Africa, six …

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As Dominican historians had suspected, the shipwreck discovered in May 2014 is not the Christopher Columbus flagship Santa Maria, as claimed by US sea explorer Barry Clifford. The Haitian government had requested technical assistance from UNESCO’s 2001 Convention on the Protection of Underwater Cultural Heritage Scientific and Technical Advisory Body, which rejected the methods proposed …

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This is your chance to purchase books and increase your knowledge of Dominican history. The General Archives of the Nation (AGN) has announced a Dominican History Book Fair for 6-12 October 2014 from 8:30am to 9pm. Some 2,000 history-related books will be on display. The AGN says that over the past 10 years around 2,200 …

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A female whale and her calf got caught in low tide in Cofresi Beach in Puerto Plata and had to be rescued by a Ministry of Environment brigade and experts from the Ocean World Marine Park. Expert divers released the 4.5 meter-long mother and her 2.5-meter calf back to sea on Wednesday 1 October 2014. …

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Destination Puerto Plata hosted Discover Puerto Plata Marketplace 2014 from Wednesday, 1 October through Friday, 3 October. The event showcased the best and new of Puerto Plata for visiting buyers and the press. Around 150 tour operators from 16 countries took part. This year’s trade show was held at the Costa Dorada Iberostar, with welcoming …

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Three men and two women from Santo Domingo were arrested after being accused of a robbery at the Agencia de Cambio Leonel, an exchange house in La Vega owned by Leonel Antonio Fernandez Almonte. The RD$20 million heist occurred on Monday, 29 September 2014. The police arrested Javier Tomas Acosta (Jonathan), Jose Ramon Jimenez Guerrero, …

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The Dominican women’s volleyball team has won its seventh straight game in the FIVB World Championship. Yesterday, Thursday 2 October 2014 the DR defeated Azerbaijan 3-1 (23-25, 25-11, 25-21, 25-17) in Bari, Italy. This is the same team that finished 17th with a 1-4 win loss record in the previous world championship held in Japan …

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The Grupo de Ballet Contemporaneo from Camaguey, Cuba will take the stage at the auditorium of the Dominican Sport Hall of Fame in the Juan Pablo Duarte Olympic Center in Santo Domingo. The Cuban dancers will dance in a benefit organized by the Igneri Art/Archeology Foundation and the Dominican Association for Hospital and Health Volunteers …

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