2016 – Page 125

The Colegio Dominicano de Periodistas (CDP), which represents journalists in the Dominican Republic has described Resolution TC012013-0009) of the Constitutional Court on defamation as “discriminatory, partial and incomplete.” CDP president Olivo de Leon said that the ruling issued by the Constitutional Court on Sunday, 21 February 2016 releases media executives and owners from responsibility in …

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President Danilo Medina says that although Brazilian publicist, Joao Santana was a key member of his team, everything would proceed according to plan despite his resignation to return to Brazil to face corruption charges linked to the Petrobras scandal. When asked whether Santana’s absence would affect his re-election chances, Medina said that although he was …

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Another poll is now needed for the PLD to decide who will be the ruling party candidate for mayor in Santo Domingo East, the largest municipality in the country. The front-runner was late Mayor Juan de los Santos, who was tragically murdered by a disgruntled business associate on 15 December 2015. The two front-runners for …

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The murder rate declined by 8% last year, according to the Citizen Safety Observatory. As reported, there were 1,675 homicides from January to December 2015 compared to 1,813 in 2014, for 138 fewer reported murders or 8%. Suicides also declined, with 547 in 2015 compared to 557 in 2014. The country’s homicide rate is 16.8 …

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Jose Rafael Abinader, lawyer and political campaign director for Luis Abinader of the PRM has denied the existence of any debt owed to former employees of the closed Sol de Plata hotel. They said the published complaints are the result of a negative campaign recommended to President Danilo Medina by Brazilian campaign advisor Joao Santana. …

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San Juan de la Maguana Senator Felix Bautista has withdrawn his defamation suit against journalist Juan Taveras Hernandez (aka Juan TH), Willy Rodriguez and Bienvenido Rodriguez, the director and owner of Z101, the radio station where Juan TH made the statements that led Bautista to file the suit. The parties reached an agreement to settle …

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A National District judge has ordered the immediate release of Luis Gabriel Viloria Soriano, husband of television personality Ibelka Ulerio who was in pre-trial detention accused of credit card cloning, fraud and other crimes. Judge Tania Yunes made the decision following an appeal from his lawyers who claimed he was in prison illegally, as a …

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A court in the eastern province of La Altagracia (Higuey) has sent eight men accused of pimping and money laundering to three months of pre-trial custody, which they will serve in Anamuya jail in Higuey. The men are Lorenzo Areche Melo (owner of the Ladies Factory nightclub) and his employees Joaquin Guerrero Garrido, Miguel Polanco …

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Yesterday, Tuesday 23 February 2016, a US man was accused of murdering his wife, also from the US, in an apartment in Trade Winds apartments in Sosua, Puerto Plata province. The victim was 49-year old Sarah Stratton Kershaw, a former New York Times reporter and a freelance contributor to the Washington Post and Miami Herald …

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The Cerveceria Nacional Dominicana (CND) has announced the delivery of the first 32 softball and baseball stadiums of a total of eighty that will be remodeled nationwide in an agreement between the Ministry of Sports and the leading brewery. The remodeling is taking place between 2015 and 2017. http://www.7dias.com.do/portada/2016/02/23/i205862_cerveceria-entrega-los-primeros-estadios-remozados.html