2015 – Page 18

During a court hearing for the Banco Peravia fraud case, presiding judge Luis Borges observed that the accused Nelson Cabral did not attend with his lawyer. He asked Cabral why. In response, he turned to prosecutor Isidro Vasquez who was present and said to the judge: “Ask him, because I paid him US$250,000 to resolve …

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Fiesta Sunset Jazz has announced its sixth anniversary show with Christmas music by the Javier Vargas Ensemble at the Rooftop Bar of the Dominican Fiesta Hotel, Santo Domingo on Friday 18 December 2015. The group features some of the top emerging talents from the National Music Conservatory directed by Vargas himself. The lineup is Daroll …

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Singer Covi Quintana will be performing her best songs as part of her “El Invento” tour on 30 January 2016 at the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Santo Domingo. Tickets are RD$650-RD$950 and are for sale at Supermercados Nacional and Jumbo and Uepa Tickets online. Read more about upcoming events at http://www.dr1.com/calendar To read more …

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First Lady Candida Montilla has launched the construction of a laboratory in the Robert Reid Cabral Children’s Hospital to carry out neo-natal analysis for diagnosing metabolic illnesses in newborn babies. At the ceremony yesterday, Tuesday 8 December 2015, the First Lady was accompanied by Public Works Minister Gonzalo Castillo and the Minister of the Presidency …

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The Chamber of Deputies approved the amended 2016 budget yesterday, Tuesday, 8 December 2015. It has been modified to include an additional RD$4 billion to the already approved RD$663.56 billion. The budget was approved in two consecutive readings and was also approved by the Senate. The National Budget for 2016 added RD$533.31 billion in extra …

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The Dominican delegation to the Climate Conference in Paris is pressing the point that the cost to the country of fighting climate change is a staggering US$17 billion. The delegation at the conference has spent ten days working towards an agreement although there are still points of divergence among the more than 100 countries taking …

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With the exception of vocational school graduates, high school graduates in general are less likely to find jobs than elementary school graduates in the Dominican Republic. The findings are from data analyzed in the Dominican Republic in Figures (Dominicana en Cifras), a publication by the National Statistics Office, as reported in Diario Libre. In 2014, …

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PRM president Andres Bautista is calling for a stop to the construction of a 73-km road crossing the Cordillera Septentrional mountain range. He said inquiries made at the Ministry of Environment have not yielded any information on the construction and there is no allocation for the road in the 2015 National Budget. He says the …

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Former Supreme Court judge Julio Anibal Suarez says that the problems of corruption and loss of credibility affecting the Dominican judiciary can be attributed to politicization and lack of supervision of the judges. Speaking on El Despertador on Channel 9 yesterday, Tuesday 8 December 2015 Suarez said that the National Magistrates Council was also politicized …

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Former President Leonel Fernandez, who headed the electoral mission sent by the United Nations South America (Unasur) to Venezuela, has called on Venezuelans to enter into dialogue to maintain a stable democratic government. Speaking to journalists Caracas after in being met by Venezuelan Foreign Minister Delcy Rodriguez, Fernandez said that it would be very important …

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