2015 – Page 322

National District Prosecutor Yeni Berenice Reynoso has asked for one year’s remand in jail for the manager of Dream Casino Corporation, Antonio Carbone, who is accused of attempted murder of the company’s administrator, lawyer Fernando Arturo Baez Guerrero. Carbone is in detention at the Palace of Justice in Santo Domingo. The remand hearing will be …

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The National Drug Control Agency (DNCD) has captured another three members of what they call a “powerful” international drug-dealing ring that sends mules from the Dominican Republic to European countries. These new arrests are linked to the same organization that recruits travelers to transport drugs to several countries in Europe, mainly Germany, Spain, Belgium, the …

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The Dominican Meteorological Office (Onamet) says a frontal system will bring light rains to the center, east and northeast of the country through Thursday, 29 January 2015. Swells are forecast for the Atlantic coastline for the weekend. http://www.onamet.gov.do

Yesterday, Tuesday 27 January 2015, the San Pedro de Macoris Baseball Association, the US Embassy, the Robinson Cano Foundation and Major League Baseball announced they would be hosting a Jackie Robinson baseball camp. Workshops will be held for more than 300 children who play in the Little Leagues in the province. The camp will take …

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Scheduled for Sunday, 8 February 2015, the Carrefour 10K marathon will host runners along a course starting and ending at its Duarte Highway hypermarket on the outskirts of Santo Domingo. The run is part of the company’s corporate social responsibility plan. The event is in its third year. The marathon will start and end in …

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In a speech yesterday, Monday 26 January 2015, the 202nd anniversary of the birth of Juan Pablo Duarte, the founding father of the Dominican nation, President Danilo Medina said that the task of building a country did not end with a flag and a constitution. He highlighted that Juan Pablo Duarte led by example with …

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On Sunday, 25 January 2015, President Danilo Medina visited Naranjito and Moncion in Santiago Rodriguez province in the Northwest, where he met coffee growers, women in Los Almacigos and peanut farmers in Dajabon. In Moncion, he visited the Carmelite Convent of Our Lady of the Americas and San Jose where the nuns requested government funds …

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The Santo Domingo Aqueduct and Sewage Corporation (CAASD) have announced that they have finished repairing a breakdown in the Valdesia system and water supplies should now be restored to the parts of Santo Domingo and the National District where it was cut off since last Thursday, 22 January 2015. CAASD deputy Operations Director Luis Salcedo …

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The Central Bank estimates the Dominican Republic will enjoy savings of 35% on its oil bills, given the recent drop in petrol prices. The Central Bank reported that the country would save US$1.37 billion in oil purchases. This means oil purchases will be 14.9% of total imports, when last year they represented 25.1% of total …

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Representatives of the US and Dominican Republic have signed a deal allowing US troops to regularly train in the Dominican Republic. According to US Southern Command spokesman Jose Ruiz, the agreement still needs to be ratified by the Dominican Republic legislative branch. Ruiz said that US and Dominican troops would train together to intercept illicit …

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