2016 – Page 144

The Leones del Escogido, the team representing the Dominican Republic at the Caribbean Series taking place at its home park, the Quisqueya Stadium in Santo Domingo, has lost all its games. Yesterday evening, Thursday 4 February 2016, in a game that went to 14 innings, Neftali Soto of the Cangrejeros de Santurce of Puerto Rico …

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Listen to 16th Century music by the Peabody Renaissance Ensemble at 11am tomorrow, Saturday, 6 February 2016 at the Alcazar de Colon stage in Santo Domingo’s Colonial City. Free. http://www.conciertosdelavilla.com/#!eventos/ef9vi

Works by late artist Ramon Oviedo will be on show at the Centro Cultural de las Telecomunicaciones Indotel in Santo Domingo, starting with an inauguration on 9 February 2016 at 7:30pm. The exhibition includes 30 drawings by Oviedo on loan from collectors Fernando Baez Guerrero, Oriolis Olivero, Mario Martinez, Antonio Ocana and Omar Molina Oviedo. …

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Paul Silverthorne on viola, Janet Sung on violin and the Orquesta Camerata Colonial directed by John Thomas Dodson will be playing music by Handel, Mozart and Haydn at the Regina Angelorum church in Santo Domingo’s Colonial City next Friday, 12 February 2016 at 8:30pm. Tickets RD$2,000. Tickets for sale at Fundacion Sinfonia, Tel 809 532-6600. …

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Adolfo Cambiaso, ranked the best polo player in the world, Juan Martin Nero, ranked third best player in the world, and David Stirling Jr. will be playing at the Casa de Campo polo field at 3:30pm tomorrow, Saturday, 6 February 2016. The game is a benefit as part of the Polo Challenge Dominican Republic 2016 …

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The Migration Agency (DGM) is installing new systems in order to check passengers’ documents at the Las Americas International Airport (SDQ). This move is aimed at facilitating the entry of passengers into the country and strengthening controls at both national and international levels. The DGM says that a South Korean company is installing the new …

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The imminent threat of a Zika outbreak in the Dominican Republic has led the Ministry of Public Health to implement a program that has already eliminated nearly 400,000 breeding areas for mosquitoes and cleared thousands of tons of garbage during a nationwide operation that started in late January. The Collective Health Department, together with other …

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Minister of Public Health Altagracia Guzman Marcelino was in Uruguay yesterday, Wednesday 3 February 2016 to attend a conference of 13 Latin American public health ministers at the Mercosur headquarters in Montevideo. At the conference, Brazilian Minister of Health Marcelo Castro announced that next week specialists from the United States will begin a joint cooperation …

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The director of the Office of Supervising Engineers of State Projects (OISOE) Francisco Pagan Rodriguez, has ordered the resumption of reconstruction work on the San Bartolome Hospital in the southwestern town of Neiba as well as a clinic and primary healthcare facility for RD$39 million. Construction work on the first of these two buildings was …

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According to the executive vice president of the Public Electricity Corporation (CDEEE), Ruben Jimenez Bichara, the lower prices of crude oil and its derivatives on the international markets have allowed for a US$1 billion reduction in the electricity sector subsidy. Some of these savings have been invested in the construction of the Punta Catalina coal-fired …

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