2017 – Page 290

The Duarte Highway superstore announces its annual race, the Carrefour 10 K race will take place Sunday, 5 February 2017. The race, which will begin at 7 am, will from begin at the Carrefour Market at the Downtown Center on Av. Núñez de Cáceres and end at Km 10 of the Mirador del Sur Avenue. …

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Canadian Paul Clifford sailed away with the 15th Carib Wind Mid-Winter Regatta that took place 20-22 January 2017 in Cabarete. Follow up was Peter Seidenberg of the United States. Martina Zeegers of the Netherlands placed third, becoming the first woman to ever win a medal in the laser radial category in the popular winter time …

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Friends and family mourned the 25-year old Kansas Royals pitcher Yordano Ventura who died on Sunday, 22 January 2017 in a car accident on the Piedra Blanca to Rancho Arriba mountain road. Ventura was from Las Terrenas, Samaná province. The members of the children’s baseball league recalled that Ventura set aside time to meet with …

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The eastern regional director of the Police, , is investigating the escape of at least eight prisoners from the La Romana police station jail. In a late development, the Police said that three prisoners were returned to the jail. He said that the escape occurred at dawn, Monday 23 January 2017, when the prisoners used …

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The former executive vice president of the Dominican Public Electricity Corporation (CDEEE), Cesar Sánchez, was questioned by the Attorney General concerning the bribes to government officials that the Brazilian company Odebrecht has admitted in a New York court to having payed to secure state contracts. On his arrival for questioning, Sánchez explained to the media …

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A report in El Dia explains that the final cost of most of the construction works carried out 2001-2014 by the Brazilian construction company Odebrecht were double the original cost estimates. The company and government officials are under investigation after a New York court revealed millions in bribes had been paid in the Dominican Republic …

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An indefinite strike was called by doctors in the Juan Pablo Pina public hospital in San Cristóbal on Monday, 23 January 2017. The strike would be called off later in the day after the Dominican Medical Association (CMD) agreed to a meeting with the director of the National Public Health System (SNS), Dr. Nelson Rodríguez …

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At a time when the new Trump administration in the United States has opened talks for changes to the North American Free Trade Agreement with Canada, Mexico and the United States, and its withdraw from the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement with Pacific-rim countries, former President Leonel Fernández believes it is now a good time to …

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The National Salaries Committee (CNS) set 15 February 2017, as the date for the meeting to review the national minimum wage level. According to a press release, CNS director, Felix Hidalgo, said that the decision to postpone the meeting that was originally scheduled for January was at the request of the employers, but that the union …

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