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2017 – Page 193

2017News

La Silla Awards: Recognizing the best in Dominican film-making

  • Dolores Vicioso
  • Posted onMay 11, 2017 at 1:06 PM
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Dominican film makers will be honoring their best on Friday, 12 May 2017 during an event televised by Color Vision, Channel 9 from the auditorium of Casa San Pablo at 8pm. The Premios La Silla 2017 are chosen by judges selected by the Dominican Association of Movie Industry Professionals (Adocine) and cover 22 categories in …

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2017News

Nate Lashley wins Web.com Tour Corales

  • Dolores Vicioso
  • Posted onMay 11, 2017 at 1:05 PM
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34-year old Nate Lashley is the winner of the Web.com Tour Corales Puntacana Resort and Club Championship title held in Punta Cana’s Corales Golf Club. The winner gets a big boost for a chance to play in the PGA Tour. Lashley ended with a 20-under-par 268 score, one stroke in front of Argentina’s Augusto Nuñez. …

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Major League Dominicans hit monstrous home runs

  • Dolores Vicioso
  • Posted onMay 11, 2017 at 1:04 PM
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Marcel Ozuna of the Miami Marlins has hit the third longest home run so far this season in the major leagues, a 467-foot blast on 3 May 2017, which flew over the right-field wall of Tropicana Field, the home of the Tampa Bay Rays. The list of longest home runs is headed by Eric Hosmer …

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Weather Service reports the sun will be shining

  • Dolores Vicioso
  • Posted onMay 11, 2017 at 1:03 PM
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The National Weather Office (Onamet) is forecasting good weather nationwide for the next few days as a recent trough passes over the island and heads out to sea. For Santo Domingo there will be hot noontime temperatures of 29-31C, but in the early morning the temperatures will drop to a comfortable 22-24C. Puerto Plata temperatures …

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2017News

Transportation magnate goes to trial for murder

  • Dolores Vicioso
  • Posted onMay 11, 2017 at 1:03 PM
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In spite of all of his efforts, the transportation businessman, Blas Peralta will have to go to trial for murder after the Third Chamber of the Penal Chamber of the Court of Appeals of the National District refused to accept an appeal in which the businessman sought to annul the ruling that ordered the start …

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2017News

AMET agents caught peeing in public

  • Dolores Vicioso
  • Posted onMay 11, 2017 at 1:02 PM
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Recent photos of members of the AMET traffic police urinating in public spaces sped through the social media and yesterday afternoon. AMET announced that the two officers involved (mentioning name and rank) had been discharged from the service. In a response to the citizen uproar, General Frener Bello Arias, the AMET commander, looked at the …

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2017News

Dominican docs now want a 25% wage hike

  • Dolores Vicioso
  • Posted onMay 11, 2017 at 1:02 PM
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The Dominican Medical Association (CMD) began their campaign yesterday, 10 May 2017, to secure a 25% wage increase. Their campaign will continue with a national strike if the Ministry of Public Health and the National Health Service do not implement the 25% increase in the salaries of the doctors who work in the decentralized hospitals …

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2017News

Yaque River on the rise; Tavera dam water being released

  • Dolores Vicioso
  • Posted onMay 11, 2017 at 1:01 PM
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The Dam and Reservoir Committee announced water from the Tavera Dam in Santiago is being released, even while rains have diminished over the Cordillera Central mountain range in the last day or so. At one point, the water level at the dam was at 324.8m above sea level, when 327m is the maximum permitted water …

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2017News

Tourism growing by bounds

  • Dolores Vicioso
  • Posted onMay 11, 2017 at 1:01 PM
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Most people would say that Dominican tourism is growing by “leaps and bounds,” however with the Minister of Tourism Francisco Javier Garcia announcing a near 17% growth in April 2017, there does not seem to be many leaps, but a single, very large, bound. According to the minister and his press release: “April was an …

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2017News

You could pay even more than the 30% tax on your telecom bill

  • Dolores Vicioso
  • Posted onMay 11, 2017 at 1:00 PM
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If you look at your telephone bill, including Internet and cable services, you will notice that there are three different charges (taxes) on your phone and Internet and cable billing totals: 18% for the Itbis (value added tax); 10% for the Selective Consumer Tax (the luxury tax) and 2% for the telecommunications development tax. We’re …

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