2016 – Page 59

A Santo Domingo court has set the date of 4 July for sentencing the former officers found guilty of stealing 950 kilograms of cocaine that had been confiscated by the Police’s Central Anti Narcotics Division (DICAN). The decision was made when the Appeals Court refused to hear the appeal as the prosecutors Maximo Antonio Diaz …

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For the first time, on 9 May 2016, a woman from the Dominican Republic has come a step closer to qualifying for the Rio Olympics in archery. As reported in World Archery website, in a first tournament in Medellin, Colombia Yessica Camilo earned a slot for the country. However, she now needs to shoot the …

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The Emergency Operations Center (COE) has confirmed that 24 provinces are still under alert due to the prolonged rainfall affecting much of the country. COE director Juan Manuel Mendez said that the worst flooding over the last 24 hours had occurred in Imbert, Puerto Plata province where 95 homes are underwater in Ceballos and Los …

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According to the Mark Penn/Noticias SIN poll released by Mark Penn yesterday, Monday 9 May 2016, if the elections were held on the day of the poll, President Danilo Medina of the ruling PLD would win comfortably with 62% of the votes and Luis Abinader running for the PRM would receive 28%. Looking back at …

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A Mark Penn/Noticias SIN poll released yesterday, Monday 9 May 2016 found that National District Mayor Roberto Salcedo has 43% of the vote compared to the main opposition candidate, the PRM’s David Collado 42%. Noticias SIN says this makes it a technical tie because the poll’s margin of error is 6.3%. It also found that …

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The head of the Organization of American States (OAS) Election Observer Mission, former President of Colombia Andres Pastrana is due to arrive in the country today, Tuesday, 10 May 2016, to meet with his team of observers working on the general elections due to take place on Sunday, 15 May 2016. A press release stated …

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Six of the opposition presidential candidates went to the Central Electoral Board (JCE) yesterday, Monday 9 May 2016 to ask for a manual vote count at all levels of the upcoming elections. The only opposition presidential candidate who did not attend the meeting was Hatuey de Camps of the Social Democratic Revolutionary Party. Luis Abinader …

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The builder of the Santo Domingo Metro, engineer Diandino Pena and singer-songwriter Juan Luis Guerra appear on the list of companies formed by the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca that specializes in creating offshore companies in tax havens as part of the so-called Panama Papers released by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. The consortium …

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According to statistics from the International Trade Centre (ITC), Dominican exports to Haiti are down 28.9% in 2015. This is a decline of US$421 million compared to 2014 when exports were US$1.42 billion. In 2015 exports were US$1.01 billion, as reported in El Dinero. The decline came after the Haitian government banned overland exports of …

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Prosecutor Yeni Berenice Reynoso has returned to work at the Palace of Justice in Santo Domingo just over a month after giving birth to her first child, a daughter. Her replacement on maternity leave was Pedro Jose Frias Morillo. Reynoso, 33, has been the National District prosecutor since December 2011. Fiscal Yeni Berenice se reintegra …

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