2015 – Page 253

The Metropolitan Transport Authority (Amet) is working with the Police to evict windscreen washers and vendors from key city intersections. AMET also announced measures aimed at stopping people who have taken over public spaces to charge drivers for parking on city streets by threatening to damage their vehicles. “We are going to take action against …

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Avoid the intersection between Leopoldo Navarro and 27 de Febrero avenues if you can over the next weeks. The Ministry of Public Works (MOPC) has begun construction on a return at the intersection to ease traffic flow at this point. The return will be built on the west side of the intersection under the 27 …

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The Boca Chica Aqueduct Corporation (Coraabo) is confirming that a fault caused by excavations for the expansion of the Las Americas Expressway has left around 75,000 users without water service. Engineer Fermin Brito, executive director of Coraabo, said that several pipeline leaks were caused by Constructora Rizek in the process of expansion works on the …

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Hundreds of protestors demonstrated outside the Supreme Court of Justice in the Centro de los Heroes yesterday evening, Thursday 9 April 2015 to call for the replacement of the Supreme Court judges. The protest was in reaction to the Supreme Court of Justice rejection of the Attorney General’s request for opening a hearing into charges …

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Tires were burned in San Francisco de Macoris yesterday, Thursday, 9 April 2015 as protestors rejected the Supreme Court decision to archive the corruption case against San Francisco Mayor Felix Manuel Rodriguez Grullon, who is accused of embezzling around RD$400 million. The protests began at 9am in the Parque Policarpio Mora on Calle Castillo at …

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Former President Leonel Fernandez was in Seattle for the opening game of the Seattle Mariners against the Angels on Monday 6 April 2015. The Mariners went on to win the game. Before the game, Fernandez threw out the ceremonial first pitch to fellow Dominican Robinson Cano on the opening day at Safeco Field. Fans writing …

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Former President Hipolito Mejia has expressed his apologies to the gay community for statements he had made last week when campaigning as a PRM pre-candidate in New Jersey. During an event, he used a derogatory term for gay people and expressed his opposition to same-sex marriages and said that if he returned to the Presidency …

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Baitoa, Santiago gravedigger Jose Benito Vasquez was arrested earlier this week, after relatives protested after their late mother’s body was exhumed. The mummified body of 86-year old Dalia Catalina Valerio, who died on 16 September 1999, was found outside her coffin. The body was in surprisingly good condition despite the long time since the death. …

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The widow of Victoriano Santos, the deputy Minister of Energy of Mines who was murdered together with his son at their family home, has asked Attorney General Francisco Dominguez Brito to find out whether a mastermind was behind the killings. Zoila Maria Gutierrez said that the prosecutors should reveal the name of the politician who …

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Cabarete business are calling for the widening of the El Choco road that connects Sosua and Cabarete to connect it to the road between Jamao del Norte and Sabaneta instead of a cement bypass road that would be built by Cemex, the Mexican cement manufacturing company. Regulation of Cabarete town center traffic would also reduce …

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