2017 – Page 169

The Dominican Republic will host the FIBA Basketball World Cup 2019 Americas Qualifier. The president of the Dominican Basketball Federation (Fedombal), Rafael Uribe, made the announcement on 7 June 2017 after taking part in FIBA’s Mid-Term Congress in Hong Kong, and attending the FIBA Basketball World Cup 2019 Qualifiers Draw in Guangzhou, China. “You know …

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Many of the best weight lifters of all times in the Americas will be in Santo Domingo for the celebration from 9-11 June 2017 of the Panamerican Master Championship at the Weight Lifting Pavilion Dr. José Joaquín Puello in the Parque del Este. Around 125 competitors have registered from 14 countries. The competitors are men …

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The Dominican Republic London Olympic’s 400m dash silver medallist, 23-year old Luguelin Santos, has graduated in Sports Technology from the Universidad Interamericana de Puerto Rico, Recinto de San Germán in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He trained and studied there for the past four years. “Four years go flying by, thanks to God and all the …

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Police in Puerto Plata announced the arrest Kelly Genao, a woman resident in San Marcos in Puerto Plata, who allegedly sexually exploited five girls, obliging them to have sex with Dominican and foreign men for money. She was arrested by agents of the Migratory Control and People Trafficking and Smuggling Department of the Police. At …

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Dominican women living in New York City gave birth to 8,039 babies in 2015, according to a study revealed earlier this week by the NYC Health Department. The number of births by Dominican women is followed by the Chinese women who gave 7911 births. Statistics of the number of births from other immigrants in the …

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The National Business Council (Conep) has appointed Cesar Dargam as the new executive vice president. At the time of the appointment, Dargam was a deputy minister at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Dargam will now be charged with coordinating the technical and operational aspects of the institution and providing for continuity to the plans that …

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A feature in El Nuevo Herald, the Spanish edition by the publishers of The Miami Herald, looks into what it calls corruption and favoritism in the construction of the Punta Catalina thermoelectric central. The power plant is under construction by a consortium head by the Brazilian company Odebrecht. It again brings to light accusations that …

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On Wednesday, 7 June 2017 in the afternoon, Judge Francisco Ortega Polanco announced his decision regarding for 13 of the 14 men accused of receiving bribes from the Brazilian construction company Odebrecht in exchange for contract work in the Dominican Republic. The orders were: Former Minister of Public Works Victor Díaz Rua and his legal …

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The Medina administration is working on enacting Law 63-17 that includes new traffic laws and regulations. Law 63-17 replaces Law 241 dating back to 1967. Meanwhile, in Santiago, Gervasio de la Rosa, the regional leader of the National Transportation Federation (Fenatrado), called on the government to apply the new laws gradually, by regions or provinces. …

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Members of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (AMET) will not be issuing traffic tickets to those drivers whose windows are tinted, because Article 193 of the newly enacted Law 63-17 does not contain any sanctions for tinted windows. This was communicated to the agents by the commanding general of the AMET, Frener Bello Arias. The AMET …

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