2015 – Page 275

The National Drug Control Agency (DNCD) has confiscated 70 packages of a white powder believed to be either cocaine or heroin from the Multimodal Port of Caucedo inside a container destined for Rotterdam in the Netherlands. According to a press release, the container was on board a ship called the Spirit of Hamburg and was …

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According to the Public Prosecution office, on Monday 16 March 2015 a Santo Domingo court sent seven people accused of sexual exploitation of women to one year’s pretrial detention while seven US nationals have been deported after being arrested in a house where the women, many of them minors, were working as prostitutes. The authorities …

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The Dominican authorities have extradited Spanish businessman Jose Maria Gil Silgado, former president of the Football Club Xerez CD, who was arrested in early November 2014 in Santo Domingo on charges of crimes against the public treasury. Gil Silgado left the country on a normal Iberia flight to Madrid accompanied by Spanish police officers. The …

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Telecoms company Tricom is opening its private art collection to the general public. The exhibition, “Bringing Back Memories” is open at the second floor of the Museum of Modern Art in Santo Domingo’s Plaza de la Cultura through 19 April. The exhibition can be seen from 10am to 5pm.

Pen and ink drawings on paper by Adolfo Nadal Walcott of San Pedro de Macoris can be seen at the Quinta Dominica on Calle Padre Billini in Santo Domingo’s Colonial City. The magnificent works by this graphic artist are inspired by the island’s folklore and silk screens are now available for sale. An exhibition of …

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During a meeting in Jimani on Friday, 13 March 2015, Ministers of Foreign Relations Pierre Duly Brutus of Haiti and Andres Navarro of the Dominican Republic agreed that the five Dominican consulates in Port-au-Prince, Anse-a-Pitre, Cap-Haitien, Ouanaminthe and Belladere in Haiti would reopen on Tuesday, 17 March 2015. It was also agreed that Dominican ambassador …

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Legislator Vinicio Castillo Seman is being asked to calm down by the Medina administration. Castillo is in government due to the alliance between his father’s political party, Fuerza Nacional Progresista, and the ruling PLD. He became a legislator when handpicked by his brother who was appointed Minister of Energy and Mines by President Danilo Medina. …

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The Ministry of Environment says it may take Santiago Mayor Gilberto Serulle to court for cutting down around 20 mature trees that used to provide shade in the Duarte Park in Santiago city. Santiago city government land use director Marco Gomez Rodriguez said that only eight trees were cut down on the grounds that they …

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In his editorial in Diario Libre today, Monday 16 March 2015, executive editor Adriano Miguel Tejada lists the reasons why he believes former President Leonel Fernandez has chosen to announce that he is seeking the PLD candidacy in the 2016 election. The reasons: 1. The attacks by convicted drug trafficker Quirino Ernesto Paulino Castillo, who …

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Aspiring presidential candidate for the PRM, Luis Abinader has spoken in favor of unifying the opposition in order to defeat the PLD in the 2016 presidential election. “I agree on uniting all the opposition,” he said. “We have to go into government to make changes, and unity has to happen not only to win the …

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