2015 – Page 55

The director of the Santo Domingo Corporation of Aqueducts and Sewers (Caasd), Alejandro Montas, has said that the recent rains have improved the service of production and distribution of water in the Greater Santo Domingo area. He said that volume at the Haina, Manoguayabo and Sabana Buey water stations had improved significantly which means a …

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The president of Brugal & Co., Franklin Baez Brugal in his keynote address on Tuesday, 3 November 2015 during the anniversary luncheon of the Dominican Republic Association of Industries (AIRD) at the Hotel Jaragua Renaissance called for more checks and balances in the Dominican political system to eradicate the “plague” of political patronage and to …

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The National Institute for the Protection of Consumer Right (Pro Consumidor) has announced that most of the products in the basic family basket (essential food provisions) have increased in price in the National District and Greater Santo Domingo during the month of October 2015. The cost of 63% of the family basket or twenty five …

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The two recently escaped French pilots Jean Pascal Fauret and Bruno Odos are just two of more than 7,000 fugitives of Dominican justice, who have skipped the system after having been favored with bail instead of preventive custody. According to the Attorney General office (Departamento de Profugos Rebeldes y Condenados de la Fiscalia), the number …

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Nicolas Christopher Pisapia, one of the Frenchmen sentenced to 20 years for drug trafficking along with the two pilots who fled the country, and who is also under house arrest, will be travelling to Santo Domingo this week to appear before the court to check-in with the judge to comply with the periodic registry requirements …

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Bruno Odos, one of the two French pilots who fled from the Dominican Republic after having been convicted of drug trafficking, has appeared in front of the French judge in charge of the investigation of what is known in France as the “Air Cocaine” case. Having been free for nine days, 56-year old Odos found …

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The National Drug Control Agency (DNCD) confiscated a shipment of 101 packages of cocaine or heroin found in a suitcase in a Toyota Tercel parked at the Cap Cana Marina in Punta Cana moments before the drugs were be shipped to Puerto Rico. Agents of the DNCD, together with Public Prosecutor Juan Carolo Monegro Pion, …

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The US Migration and Customs Office has announced that yesterday, Tuesday 3 November 2015, the repatriation of 119 Dominican ex-convicts. This represents the largest group repatriated so far this year. The ex-convicts arrived at Las Americas International Airport, accompanied by seven federal agents. The flight was met by Migration officials, along with members of the …

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The Emergency Operations Center (COE) has increased the number of provinces under a green alert for floods and mudslides to eight, due to heavy amounts of rainfall across different parts of the country. The provinces under alert are La Altagracia, La Romana, San Pedro de Macoris, Monte Plata, Greater Santo Domingo, Sanchez Ramirez, Hato Mayor …

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The Administrative Minister for the Presidency, Jose Ramon Peralta, has responded to the comments by Persio Maldonado, the president of the Dominican Society of Daily Newspapers who said that the press has been relegated to having only publish what the government wants them to. Maldonado called for President Medina to open up to press questioning. …

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