2017 – Page 116

Double Olympic gold medalist in the 400m hurdles (Athens 2004 and London 2012), Felix Sánchez (Super Sánchez), has opened his Sports Academy to raise the level of athletics in the Dominican Republic. The academy is operating from the Felix Sanchez Olympic Stadium in the Juan Pablo Duarte Olympic Center. The track recently was renovated. Sanchez …

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On Monday, 21 August 2017, there will be a total solar eclipse that will be able to be seen by around 300 million people, according to the United States Aerospace Agency (NASA). The whole continent of the Americas will be able to see either the full or partial eclipse that will last between 2 and …

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The National Metereological Office (Onamet) forecasts rains all day on Tuesday nationwide due to a tropical wave and trough moving through our area. The rains are forecast to clear by Wednesday, 9 August 2017. Meanwhile, the seventh named storm of the season, Hurricane Franklin is nowhere near the Dominican Republic. According to the National Hurricane …

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On Sunday night, 8 August 2017, three people died and more than 10 were injured in an accident involving a truck and a SUV on the Hato Mayor-Sabana de la Mar road in the east of the country. Those who died were identified as 25-year old Esteverson Fenix, and Carlos Yan and Tiwí Pierret, Haitian …

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Members of the Dominican Army confiscated 12 packs of what is assumed to be marijuana and arrested one person at a military checkpoint in the community of Copey in northwestern Montecristi. The drugs were being transported in a Ford SUV driven by Jairo A. Martínez Almonte, a resident of Santiago. The suspect drugs weighed more …

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A court in Santo Domingo has handed down a sentence of three months in preventive custody for Venezuelan Luz Marina Guillén Morales, who was detained at the Las Americas International Airport (AILA) when trying to travel to Caracas, Venezuela with the sum of US$105,927. According to the court she is suspect of having links to …

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Another prosecutor accused of sexual harassment in Samana After Robert Francis Justo Bobadilla, was removed from the position of prosecutor general in Samaná for sexual harassment, husband and wife Noe Francisco Cortorreal and Denisse Henriquez Vanderhorts have come forward in Samana to claim another case of sexual harassment. The couple said they were inspired by …

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A recent report from the Pew Research Center in the United States estimated that there are 58.6 million Hispanics in the United States, which accounts for 18% of the total population of the country. Of these some 1.8 million are Dominicans, with 1.5 million of them living in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Pennsylvania. …

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Yesterday, Monday, 7 August 2017, a protest march by members of the Green March Movement was impeded in the area of the Presidential Palace. The march had been named “The Seven Marches around Jericho” and had been planned for 7am. The protestors would walk seven times around the Presidential Palace. Winston Paulino, member of the …

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The Ministry of Public Health has announced that soon prescriptions will be required to purchase sexual stimulants. Public Health Minister, Altagracia Guzmán Marcelino justifies the need to restrict the sale given the present irrational use of sexual stimulants in combination with drugs and energy drinks that has lead to many deaths, especially of young men. …

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