2016 – Page 123

The Mauricio Baez basketball team won the opening game at the Palacio de los Deportes in the National District Superior Basketball Tournament yesterday, Sunday 28 February 2016. The Mauricio Baez city team, which had not played as a team since 2003, defeated San Carlos 74-66. In the second game of the evening, Club Rafael Barias …

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The Caribbean’s leading cycling tour, the Independence Tour, now in its 37th year, continues on Tuesday, 1 March 2016 with competitors now heading east. In the first stage, the cyclists were in Santo Domingo before heading to the southwest. Cristian Torres of the United States won the Santo Domingo-Barahona leg (175 km passing by San …

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The show business reporters association (Acroarte) has announced the new date for the Soberano ceremony, the most important local show business awards, for two days after the end of the National Book Fair on the grounds of the Plaza de la Cultura in Santo Domingo. The event has traditionally taken place at the National Theater …

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The Dominican Republic has been admitted to the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), becoming the 50th member country. The country was admitted during the Seventh World EITI Conference held in Lima, Peru where Minister of Energy and Mines Antonio Isa Conde represented the DR. The DR now needs to prepare and present an initial follow-up …

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The Public Electricity Corporation (CDEEE) has announced that three key tenders are pending for the electricity sector: The Madrid Accord agreements with power generators that expire this summer and the agreements for the operation and maintenance and another for supplying coal for the Punta Catalina coal-fired plant under construction by the Medina administration in the …

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One of the major players in the electricity industry in the Dominican Republic, Inter-Energy Holdings proposes to invest an additional US$200 million in energy production. Chief executive Rolando Gonzalez Bunster said that his group was willing to make this investment in order to incorporate new technology for the sale, smart metering, prepayment and protection of …

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Shoppers in Moca are delighted. A Jumbo store is opening at 8am tomorrow, Friday, 26 February 2016. From this weekend onwards, shoppers in Moca will have access to the Jumbo megastore competitive sales and a wide variety of food, clothing, hardware and electronic products. Grupo CCN says that more than 65,000 products will be on …

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The world-famous Timberland Company occupies 14 buildings in the Santiago North Industrial Park (Pisano), employing thousands of workers and exporting nearly four million pairs of shoes and boots from the DR a year. Their projection for the next few years is to double their workforce as well as their output that is sold throughout the …

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The main opposition party, the Partido Revolucionario Moderno (PRM) with Luis Abinader as its Presidential candidate has presented its candidates for 13 of 32 Senate posts in the 15 May 2016 general elections. They are: Puerto Plata: Jose Ignacio Paliza Bahoruco: Mario Lama Independencia: Dagoberto Rodriguez Adames Azua: Victor Sanchez Peravia: Milciades Franjul El Seibo: …

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The head of the Animal Protection Unit at the Attorney General office, Marylin Lois received a series of reports from a group animal welfare institutions and campaigners yesterday, Wednesday 24 February 2016. They are expressing their concern at a mass-poisoning incident affecting several cats and dogs in Santo Domingo’s Ciudad Ganadera. A number of individuals …

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