2014 – Page 77

The UK Embassy in the Dominican Republic is hosting the 2nd Fair of British Universities in Santo Domingo and Santiago. The event promotes studies at seven UK universities. The meetings will take place on Tuesday, 30 September 2014 in Santo Domingo at the Hotel Embajador from 3:30 to 8pm, and in Santiago at the Hotel …

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Massachusetts newspaper the Eagle Tribune reports on former President Leonel Fernandez’s visit to the city of Lawrence where he accepted a proclamation to run for President in 2016 from local officials. Lawrence has a large Dominican population, and its mayor, Daniel Rivera, is Dominican. While Fernandez has not made an official announcement as to whether …

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The Attorney General Office had little to say about the international investigations into alleged corruption in the case of the purchase of Brazilian Super Tucanos during the Fernandez administration. In response to press inquiries, the Attorney General Office confirms there is an ongoing international investigation in which the Dominican Republic has participated in compliance with …

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INTEC University’s Gender Studies coordinator Lourdes Contreras says that more work needs to be done to reduce gender violence from the roots, as reported in Diario Libre. Contreras said that public policies continued to focus on administering justice when few cases that get that far compared to the number of women who suffer physical, sexual, …

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The National Drug Control Agency (DNCD), state prosecutors and the Freight Containers Control Unit at the Multimodal Caucedo Port have seized 179 packages suspected of being cocaine or heroin, reports DNCD spokesman Miguel Medina. Three unnamed persons have been arrested. The drug was camouflaged within a freight container registered to NYK Logistics & Megacarrier ship …

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A US tourist, Ashley Fraser, has been killed in a traffic crash on the Coral Highway between La Romana and Higuey, the Metropolitan Transport Authority reports. The accident occurred when the driver of a Mitsubishi SUV lost control and hit the Nissan minibus in which Fraser and her husband Melville Dwayne Herron were traveling. The …

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The game against Croatia (ranked 23rd in the world) in the 2014 FIVB Volleyball Women’s World Championship was a tough and exhausting one. The Dominican national women’s volleyball team (ranked 10th in the world) won the second tiebreaker in a game that went 3-2 (25-22, 25-13, 22-25, 24-26, 19-17). With its defeat of Croatia on …

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President Danilo Medina says that the people are at the center of Dominican government public policies. Medina wants a Dominican Republic that is a developed and prosperous country, where equal opportunity is not an ideal but an everyday reality. Addressing the 69th General Assembly of the United Nations on Wednesday, 24 September 2014, President Medina …

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President Danilo Medina met with business magnate and philanthropist George Soros on Tuesday, 23 September 2014, as part of his agenda in New York City where he traveled to attend the 69th General Assembly of the United Nations. As reported by the Presidency, Medina and Soros spent about half an hour discussing Soros’ interest in …

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