2017 – Page 216

Senator Wilton Guerrero (PLD-Peravia) is taking the side of small coffee producers in protesting the Medina administration initiative to create the National Coffee Institute (Instituto Nacional del Café – Indocafé) that would replace the present National Dominican Coffee Council (Consejo Dominicano del Café – Codocafé). Guerrero says that the bill that would abolish Codocafé is …

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The Center for Emergency Operations (COE) has announced a death toll of 15 people for the 2017 Easter Week. Of these, 11 died in traffic accidents, three drowned and one was hit by a vehicle. The number of deaths was down from 23 registered for the same period in 2016 and 30 in 2015. COE …

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A modern theatrical version of Bonnie and Clyde has been turned into comedy and will be performed on weekends at the Teatro X in Naco neighborhood from 16 to 25 June 2017. The shows will be on Fridays and Saturdays at 8:30pm and Sundays at 7pm. The show tells the story of two eccentric bank …

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The Santo Domingo Book Fair, the most important annual cultural event organized by the Ministry of Culture, opens on 20 April 2017 and run through 1 May at the Playa de la Cultura grounds. The book fair this year honors poet and publicist Rene del Risco, with a pavilion dedicated to share his life’s works …

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Diario Libre reported that those who had paid admission fees of RD$8,900 (with VIP seats ranging from RD$17,900 to RD$47,000) and more to watch the Jennifer Lopez performance at Altos de Chavon on Easter Saturday, 15 April 2017 were disappointed. The show began at 9:45pm and would end by 10:53pm. This was her first show …

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The Spanish Armada tall ship Juan Sebastian de Elcano is docked at the Port of Santo Domingo after the 25-day trip across the Atlantic Ocean from Cadiz, Spain. The training ship was received by the new Spanish ambassador Alejandro Abellan. On board is a crew of more than 200, including 26 women. The ship is …

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She is best known for her innovative song compositions that reinvented merengue, but last week Dominican Rita Indiana Hernandez’s novel “La Mucama de Omicunle” (Periférica publishers) was awarded the Grand Prix Littéraire Région Guadeloupe on Saturday, 8 April 2017 at the fifth Caribbean Writers Congress (6-9 April 2017). The Congress was hosted by the Guadeloupe …

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The European Police announced the arrest in Germany of Ambiorix Nepomuceno Rodríguez, who is accused in the murder of 37-year old Dominican lawyer Paola Languasco on 24 April 2015 in Santiago. Rodriguez has a pending warrant for extradition to the Dominican Republic, where is scheduled to be tried for the murder. The extradition reportedly will …

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The Public Ministry says that French citizen Christophe Rene Henri Naudin, who has declared guilty of assisting in the escape of two convicted French pilots, will pay a fine of RD$1.5 million for violation of the corresponding human smuggling statutes and penal code of the Dominican Republic. Naudin admitted to having assisted in the escape …

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The First Collegiate Court of the National District set 18 May 2017 as the date for the start of the trial against Fenatrado trucker union president Blas Peralta, who is accused of the murder of former rector of the state university UASD Mateo Aquino Febrillet on 11 March 2016. The defendant’s lawyers had filed a …

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