2016 – Page 163

Local residents have blocked the flow of garbage collection vehicles to the main disposal site in Duquesa for the second time this week. The protests are causing major delays in the disposal of refuse from the National District, Santo Domingo North and Santo Domingo West. The barricade and blockage of the road began at 5am …

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A group of citizens led by the Poder Ciudadano (Citizen Power) group and other civil society organizations, protested in front of the Municipal Palace in Santiago, and called for a resolution to the garbage disposal problem currently affecting the entire municipality. Carrying signs, the demonstrators declared that city residents were exposed to diseases because of …

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24 of 60 of the PRSC board members have announced that they will continue supporting the PLD presidential candidate, President Danilo Medina. The PRSC, now a minority party, has been a beneficiary of political patronage from its alliance with the ruling PLD since 1996. The PRSC board, which is chaired by Federico Antun Batlle recently …

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Alianza Pais presidential candidate Guillermo Moreno has pledged to build a country predominantly for the middle class. A country that is fair, safe, democratic and sovereign, he promises. Speaking to the nation as presidential candidate yesterday, he highlighted that the country has the natural resources and the human talent to develop a model of society …

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The United States Ambassador in the Dominican Republic, James Brewster has announced the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) will support building reading skills by reaching out to 200,000 students in public elementary schools. The US$20 million “Reading” five-year program will be implemented together with the Universidad Iberoamericana (Unibe) and the Ministry of Education. …

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In an opinion feature in today’s Diario Libre, Thursday 14 January 2016, former Dominican ambassador in Washington and former dean of the Law School at PUCMM University, Flavio Dario Espinal comments on the Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump pre-candidacies. From the start, in the commentary, Espinal states that a Trump Presidency could be chaotic for …

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The National Meteorological Office (Onamet) reported abnormally high waves along the Atlantic coast yesterday, Wednesday 13 January 2016 with levels between 7 and 9 feet near the coast and higher further out to sea. As a result Onamet is maintaining its small craft warnings and advising small boats to remain in port because of the …

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The Round Robin of the Dominican Winter Professional Baseball Championship renewed action yesterday evening, Wednesday, after taking a night off on Tuesday, 12 January 2016. With the Tigres del Licey safely ensconced in first place at 12 and 1, the other three teams are vying for the single remaining spot in the Final Series. This …

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Noel Schajris and Leonel Garcia will be back in Santo Domingo to play a concert with Sin Bandera, “Una ultima vez world tour”. They will be playing their greatest hits at the Palacio de los Deportes on 9 April 2016 from 8:30pm. This is a Cesar Suarez Jr. production. Tickets are for sale at Uepa …

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President Danilo Medina inaugurated a 176-apartment housing project in Cabral in the southwestern province of Barahona and a 16-classroom school on Monday, 11 January 2016. The President has declared 2016 as the Year of Housing Development with a pledge to boost government initiatives to provide homes for low-income families. Provincial governor Pedro Pena Rubio gave …

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