2016 – Page 158

Young pop-opera group Il Volo is booked for a concert at the Nuryn Sanlley Amphitheater in the Parque Iberoamericano in Santo Domingo on Saturday 9 April 2016. The Italian group, made up of singers Piero Barone, Ignazio Boshetto and Gianluca Ginoble first performed in the Dominican Republic in 2013 when all the tickets sold out …

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On Sunday evening, 17 January 2016 a fire broke out at the Duquesa landfill site and on Monday afternoon the fire was still covering part of Santo Domingo in a layer of smoke. According to Roberto del Castillo, public relations officer for the Lajun company, which manages the site, the fire started in an area …

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Due to the recent fall in fuel prices, the CONATRA transport union has announced that fares on all of its routes will decrease by RD$5. CONATRA president Antonio Marte said that the decrease in the price of fuel combined with the subsidy his members receive, which is a reduction of RD$36 over the normal price …

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According to the latest SIN-Mark Penn poll, if the presidential election were held today, President Danilo Medina would defeat his main rival Luis Abinader 57.3% to 27.4% in the first round, as reported in Diario Libre. Guillermo Moreno would receive 3.6% of the vote, Amable Aristy 2.5%, Quique Antun 1.4%, Eduardo Estrella 1.3% and Minou …

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According to a poll by Colombian company Laboratorios de Investigaciones Sociales Aplicadas (LISA), if the presidential elections were held today, President Danilo Medina would obtain 45.7% of the vote and Luis Abinader 41.96%, which would mean there would have to be a second round of voting. The poll was taken between 18 and 23 December …

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According to the preliminary voters’ roll prepared by the Central Electoral Board (JCE) following last weekend’s closure of the process to issue new identity cards in time to vote, a total of 6,723,239 Dominicans are eligible to vote in the 15 May 2016 general elections. JCE president Roberto Rosario said that this figure could change …

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In a joint operation between the Dominican Armada (Navy) and the National Drug Control Agency (DNCD) a boat with neither name nor registration and suspected of illegal trafficking of either people or drugs, was chased and apprehended. One person died and another five were arrested during the operation, which took place two miles to the …

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The National Police arrested four men in possession of ten kilos of a white powder, presumed to be cocaine and RD$669,000 in cash on Sunday, 17 January 2016. The men, 35-year old Anastasio Gabino, who lives in Santiago, 37-year old Luis Rafael Pichardo Rosado of Las Terrenas, 30-year old Jose Starlyn Soriano Ferreira of the …

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According to Police in the US state of Massachusetts, a man wanted for the murder of a police officer in the Dominican Republic has been arrested. Fifty-nine year old Ramon Aguasviva Mejia, of Lawrence, was being held overnight at the Lowell police station Sunday on arrest warrants from Interpol and US Immigration and Customs Enforcement …

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After a slow start, the Leones del Escogido finally got their act together to win the final four games of the round robin of the Dominican Winter Professional Baseball Championship. The 7-2 win over the Toros del Este yesterday, Monday 18 January 2016, gave the city team the right to challenge its archrival, Tigres del …

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