2015 – Page 289

The Executive Branch has granted a retirement pension “for reasons of time served in the service” to four Police officers arrested in the case of the missing cocaine in eastern Santo Domingo. They include the former director of the Central Anti-Narcotics Agency (Dican), Colonel Carlos Fernandez Valerio, who is accused of involvement in the confiscation …

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The Third Collegiate Tribunal of the First Instance Court of Santiago has postponed the start of the case of Vice President Margarita Cedeno vs. lawyer and TV host Marcos Martinez until 12 May 2015. The former First Lady is accusing the TV host of defamation and for presenting allegedly forged bank documents that identified her …

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Cropduster pilot Arraldo (Aldo) Amaro Joa was killed when his Piper Pawnee (registration HI822) crashed in the Valle del Tetero of the Cordillera Central, some 6,000 feet above sea level yesterday, Tuesday 3 March 2015. Amaro was on assignment for the Fumigaciones Aereas del Caribe, owner of the plane and had been reported missing. As …

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The Dominican judicial authorities have issued an arrest order against the three chief executives of Banco Peravia. Bank executives Venezuelans Jose Luis Santoro, Gabriel Jimenez Aray and Daniel Morales Santoro left the country shortly before the bank was intervened following fraud claims by customers. The Banking Superintendence recently announced that savers who had accounts in …

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The Dominican Republic has asked the Spanish authorities for help with the forensics investigation of the circumstances behind the death of Henri Claude Jean (Tulile). The Haitian national was found hanging, with his hands and feet bound, in the Ercilia Pepin Park in Santiago. Attorney General Francisco Dominguez Brito says that the government is doing …

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Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli is booked for his second performance at Altos de Chavon, Casa de Campo in La Romana. His melodic voice has enchanted thousands of music lovers who marvel at the talent of this man, who is blind. He will be the star attraction of the Easter holidays when he appears on Saturday, …

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As he left the country on Sunday, 1 March 2015 for dermatitis treatment in Florida, President Danilo Medina returned discreetly and without any information being released to the media. The press had no idea when, where or how he arrived back in the country, and they waited at the Presidential Palace all yesterday afternoon, Monday …

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Energy and Mines Minister Pelegrin Castillo has disclosed that by next year the right conditions will be in place for the country to issue a tender for major companies to come and look for oil. He said that in the meantime, all oil or natural gas exploration concessions have been suspended. As reported in El …

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Minister of Energy and Mines Pelegrin Castillo says if a second natural gas refinery is built in the country, it should be located on the north coast. He has turned down proposals to build a second refinery 30 km away from the existing AES refinery on the south coast. He pointed out that the Dominican …

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The Dominican government has again allowed the debt owed to the private power generation companies to climb. It is now at US$756.6 million as of 8 February 2015, and included US$20.7 million of frozen debt, most of it owed to AES Dominicana, as reported in eldinero.com.do Arrears account for US$615.4 million, or more than 60% …

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