2016 – Page 120

A total of 984 packages of cocaine or heroin have been confiscated off the coast in Barahona in the southwest of the country in a joint operation between the Dominican Armada and the United States Coast Guard. The drugs were taken from a boat with seven Hondurans on board, now all in custody. According to …

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The top executive of the collapsed Peravia Bank, Jose Luis Santoro, has been arrested in Venezuela and is awaiting an extradition request from the National District Public Prosecution Service. According to lawyer Cesar Amadeo Peralta, who represents several Venezuelan businessmen who have writs against Santoro and the other bank executives, he was arrested in his …

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The United States Immigration and Customs Control Service (ICE) has repatriated 86 Dominican former convicts who have completed prison terms in jail in the US for drug dealing, murder, fraud, assault, document forgery and other federal offences. The group of former convicts arrived in the country yesterday, Tuesday 1 March 2016 via Las Americas International …

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On Monday evening, 29 February 2016 another patient in the burn unit at the Luis Eduardo Aybar public hospital died of injuries she suffered in last month’s gas plant explosion in Los Rios in Santo Domingo West. Marina Alvarez, 52, who was on a ventilator, passed away at 10pm. Another critical patient, 28-year old Denis …

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A gas explosion caused a private ambulance to burst into flames at 8.40am on Km 9 of the Duarte Highway in Santo Domingo. The ambulance, which belonged to the San Antonio de Herrera funeral home, was running on propane gas. Once the driver, Juan Beltre smelled smoke he stopped and got out the vehicle leaving …

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According to the National Police, an 18-month old German girl has died after drowning in a paddling pool in her garden in Las Galeras, in the northeastern province of Samana. The child, Kailany Dolores Veras Sanchez was in a plastic paddling pool along with several other children at the time. Her body has been sent …

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The Feria Ganadera off the Malecon in Santo Domingo will again be hosting the year’s leading farming sector event, the National Agricultural and Livestock Fair. The weeklong fair opens this Saturday, 5 March 2016. This year the fair is dedicated to three farmers, Elsa Alvarez de Brache, Jose Manuel Mallen and Victor Abreu. A variety …

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According to the latest Greenberg-Diario Libre poll, corruption and insecurity are the weakest points in President Danilo Medina’s re-election bid in May 2016. The poll shows Medina in the lead with 55% to 34% for Luis Abinader. 85% of eligible voters told the pollsters that crime is up compared to 2015, 74% would like to …

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One of President Danilo Medina’s main campaign promises in the run up to the 2012 elections was to create 400,000 jobs in four years. In his state of the nation address on Saturday, 27 February 2016 Medina announced that he expected this target to be reached by the end of his current term. However, although …

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Pulso Dominicano (Telesistema) has announced that a poll by Newlink Research for the Corripio Communications Group showed President Danilo Medina leading with 50.5%, followed by 32.2% of Luis Abinader. Guillermo Moreno would receive 7.7% of the vote, Minou Tavarez 1.9% and other candidates 1.8%. 89.8% of Dominicans eligible to vote said it was very likely …

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