2016 – Page 147

The question seems to be: Can the Metropolitan Transport Authority sell the impounded vehicles? But looking beyond the surface, what emerges is that hundreds of thousands of vehicles and motorcycles are on the streets without the correct documentation. The Institutionalism and Justice Foundation (FINJUS) is warning the Metropolitan Transport Authority (AMET) and the Public Prosecution …

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Public health ministers from 15 Latin American countries will be holding an urgent meeting in Montevideo, Uruguay today, Wednesday 3 February 2016 to discuss the zika virus threat in the region. The meeting was requested in Quito last week by Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, during the IV Summit of the Community of Latin American and …

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The Centro Superior Hosteleria Mediterraneo opened in Santo Domingo yesterday, Tuesday 2 February 2016. The vocational training center will offer courses in tourism, gastronomy, hotel industry and agribusiness. CSHM international development director Angel Campillo said that the first branch of the Spanish training center is a RD$67.5 million investment. The first phase of the center …

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Prices for some foodstuffs in Santo Domingo’s public markets are beginning to come down as production increases, reports Minister of Agriculture Angel Estevez. He says that the prices of some items, including chicken, were reduced by between 5% and 20% last week. Duarte Mercado Nuevo Stallholders Federation president Luis Taveras said that production of certain …

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According to the Seismological Institute at the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo, four earthquakes have been recorded over the last few days up to yesterday, Tuesday 2 February 2016, measuring between 3.24 and 4.14 on the Richter scale. The largest and the latest struck at 6:58am around five kilometers southwest of Guayamate in La Romana …

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A Dominican Republic national has been arrested at Kennedy Airport in New York with nearly three kilos of cocaine hidden inside three mortar and pestle sets he was carrying in his luggage. According to court records Mario Javier Morffe arrived on Friday, 29 January 2016 on a JetBlue flight from Santo Domingo and US Customs …

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The National Drug Control Agency (DNCD) has confiscated 10.5 kilos of cocaine found inside an electricity generator that arrived at Las Americas airport on a Copa Airlines cargo flight from Panama. DNCD agents, with the help of a canine unit, found the drugs, which were wrapped in 11 packets, in the cargo terminal. So far …

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US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers in Puerto Rico intercepted an attempted illegal exportation of currency when they discovered US$518,980 hidden in a cargo container in the Caribbean Fantasy ferry. The money was found during a search carried out before the passenger ferry set sail for the Dominican Republic. http://www.caribbeannewsnow.com/topstory-Puerto-Rico-authorities-seize-half-a-million-dollars-inside-shipping-container-29170.html

A National District Court has established that the first trial of a man with dual Italian and Canadian nationality, Antonio Carbone will begin on 9 February 2016. He is accused, along with two other foreigners who are fugitives from justice, of the attempted homicide in December 2014 of the General Manager of Dream Casinos Corporation, …

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Four people, two men and two women were killed at dawn yesterday, Tuesday 2 February 2016 when the SUV in which they were travelling hit a wall of an elevated section near the Monument area in Santiago. The bodies, which were taken to the National Institute of Forensic Pathology, have not yet been identified. According …

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