2017 – Page 155

On Monday, 27 June 2017, the First Collegiate Court of the National District remitted for Thursday, 29 June 2017 the opening of a background trial on the murder of the former president of the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo (UASD), Mateo Aquino Febrillet. The president of the Fenatrado truckers union, Blas Peralta, is accused of …

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A judge in El Seibo has delayed a hearing on coercive measures in the case of the two murdered Dutchmen until next Thursday, 29 June 2017. In relation to the case, Erick Padron, from Spain, was arrested in a villa in Casa de Campo in La Romana and is said to be associated with the …

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Members of the security forces and the National Drug Control Agency (DNCD have confiscated US$100,000 from a Venezuelan who was trying to take the money out of the country illegally. The Venezuelan, Cirilo José Reyes, was about to board flight 2967 of Laser Airlines, bound for Caracas on Sunday, 25 June 2017, when the money …

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The fire brigade in the National District and police explosives’ experts have begun to investigate the cause of a fire that damaged the three-story warehouse of the Hiper Uno supermarket, located on Duarte Avenue, near 27 February in Villa Consuelo. Losses in millions are estimated. 12 fire engines from the Fire Brigade were needed to …

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Ciudad Juan Bosch, the mega city under construction in eastern Santo Domingo with the backing of the Medina administration, is only affordable for those making upwards of RD$65,000 in income a month. The government says that already 7,000 of the 25,000 dwellings contemplated in the 3.2 million square meter apartment city have been sold. These …

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On Thursday, 29 June 2017 at midnight, the time period for filing appeals for those accused in the Odebrecht bribe case comes to an end. The appeals are expected to be against the coercive measures handed down by Supreme Court Judge Francisco Ortega Polanco. The first appeal was filed last Friday, 23 June, by the …

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Odebrecht, the Brazilian construction company, has laid off around 3,900 workers in the Dominican Republic in the last few days and as a result almost all of the construction works they are carrying out have been suspended. The works affected are the Piedra Blanca-Cruce de Ocoa road, roads in Santiago de los Caballeros and the …

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The dean of the Law School of the UASD state university, Antonio Medina Calcaño, warned that members of the National Business Council (Conep) should not be able to propose candidates for the replacement for the Supreme Court of Justice. Interviewed on La Super 7 en la Mañana radio talk show on 107.7FM, the university professor …

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President Danilo Medina confirmed the appointment of the new ambassadors in Honduras and Sweden in Decree 215-17. Spokesman for the Presidency, Roberto Rodríguez Marchena, said lawyer, politician and writer Marino Berigüete was named ambassador in Honduras. He is a former Dominican ambassador to Paraguay. Berigüete is a member of the PRSC opposition party. Former Dominican …

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Minister of Education Andres Navarro and Monsignor Gregorio Nicanor Peña Rodríguez, the president of the Dominican Episcopal Conference and bishop of the La Altagracia Diocese, have signed 35 cooperation agreements for the co-management of 127 Catholic schools in the Dominican Republic. In a press release, both parties stressed that the agreements create a strategic alliance …

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