2017 – Page 143

Dominican films have diversified from the days when comedy prevailed. The wide range of the contemporary Dominican cinema will be on full display at the Dominican Film Festival in New York from the 25-30 July 2017. The films will be shown at the United Palace Theater, the Columbia University Medical Center, the Armory Foundation, New …

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The Dominican Republic plays Austria today, 10 July 2017, as the XV Men’s Softball World Championship takes place in Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada. The Dominican team is tied with Canada for the first place in the tournament after winning its first three games. The DR is playing in Pool A and has defeated India (15-0), China-Hong …

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The Listin Diario reported how Haitian vendors have turned several city streets into marketplaces. Mentioned for Greater Santo Domingo in particular is the area of Villa Mella, located in northern Santo Domingo. Also mentioned is “Little Haiti” located in San Carlos, Los Guandules, Guachupita, La Ciénaga, Villa Juana, Mejoramiento Social, and Barrio 27 de Febrero …

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The Ministry of Public Health announced the temporary shutdown of the Centro Internacional de Cirugías Plásticas Avanzadas (CIPLA) located on Av. Pedro Henríquez Ureña near Alma Mater. The clinic was recently served mal practice lawsuits presented by several resident and foreign women for invasive procedures at the center. The closure is for violation of the …

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The Second Penal Hall of the Supreme Court of Justice (SCJ), acting as appeals court in the Odebrecht bribes case, ordered that businessman Ángel Rondón and former minister of Public Works Víctor Díaz Rúa remain in pre-trial detention in Najayo jail while domiciliary arrest was authorized to several others accused in the Odebrecht bribes scandal. …

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While the case has yet to be heard, Supreme Court of Justice Judge Miriam Germán Brito alerted early on her concern that the Attorney General has not prepared well the cases for those accused of taking bribes in the Brazilian construction company Odebrecht scandal. The presiding judge of the second penal hall of the Supreme …

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The city council of Santo Domingo East municipality changed zoning land laws for eastern Santo Domingo. Now, 50 floor buildings will be allowed on the Caribbean-sea fronting Avenida España. The change in the zoning law was announced by Mayor Alfredo Martínez on Friday, 7 July 2017. The measure will benefit the Sans Souci residential and …

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Engineer Magin Díaz Domínguez, director general of the Tax Agency (DGII) is optimistic that for the first time tax collections will be more than what was budgeted. Díaz said tax collections have reached RD$201 billion in the first six months of the year, that is RD$22 billion more than last year when collections were RD$179 …

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The Dominican Republic was declared on Friday, 7 July 2017, free of the Mediterranean Fly, two years after an outbreak that led to considerable damage to the agricultural industry. To accomplish the difficult task, the country was assisted by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) working with the International Atomic Energy …

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DR1 erroneously reported in its Wednesday, 6 July 2017 issue that lawyer Vitelio Mejía had been elected as the new president of the Dominican Professional Winter Baseball League (Lidom). Diario Libre had reported that after 26 years of the rule of former president Leonardo Matos Berrido, the six Dominican Professional Winter Baseball League (Lidom) had …

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