2017 – Page 50

Apparently since May 2017 all the documents regarding the US$92 million bribes Odebrecht case that were requested from Brazil are in the Dominican Republic in the hands of the proper authorities. This is the explanation given for the Dominican Republic not having participated in this week’s meeting of prosecutors and District Attorney’s from 10 countries …

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Anyone who has visited a National District cemetery in the past two months has been able to see in person the good job new mayor of Santo Domingo David Collado has done to revamp the public burial grounds. These are the Máximo Gómez, Cristo Redentor and Barrio Obrero (Cristo Rey) cemeteries. A third, located on …

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The new director of the Transit and Transport Institute (Intrant), engineer Claudia Franchesca de los Santos has said that recent increases in fares ordered by public transporters in Santiago violate agreements reached with the transporters. The new Intrant has been working closely with the transporters. The RD$5 raises by the urban transporters in Santiago were …

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The Medina administration has included in the National Budget an allotment for RD$569.3 million to assist small hotels and businesses in the southwestern province of Pedernales in 2018. The Pedernales area is slated for development by the government once legal matters regarding irregularities in property titles to beach lands come to a conclusion. As reported …

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The Dominican Republic is hosting the XXI Jazz Festival, a six-night affair with shows in different venues around the country. The president of the Dominican Republic Jazz Festival Educational Foundation, María Elena Gratereaux, highlighted the quality of the participating musicians, as well as that each night is dedicated to a participant’s country. The opening concert, …

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FIBA Basketball World Cup 2019 Americas Qualifier will be played at the Gran Arena del Cibao Dr. Oscar Gobaira in Santiago de los Caballeros. The facility was deemed in better conditions than the Palacio de los Deportes arena in Santo Domingo. The event is a qualifier for the FIBA Basketball World Cup China 2019. The …

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Simón Bolívar Ureña Almánzar (“El Boli” or “Machú”), one of those accused in participating in the concealment of the body of 16-year old Emely Peguero, appealed yesterday, 30 October 2017, in the hope of overturning the coercive measure of one year in preventive custody imposed by a San Francisco de Macoris judge. The family of …

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Dominican born US Congressmember Adriano Espaillat is using his influence to try to convince AT&T’s U-Verse and DirectTV to reinstate Television Dominicana. Television Dominicana brings Dominican Republic-sourced shows to viewers in the United States. Latin Times cites The Business in Television: “There are 2.3 million Dominicans living in the United States, the fourth largest Spanish-speaking …

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On Sunday, 29 October 2017, with their friends, families, and community leaders, New York unveiled “Flight 587 Way” at 181st Street and Amsterdam Avenue in honor of the victims and their families whose lives were marked on Monday, 12 November 2001 by this tragic accident. On the tragic morning of 12 November 2001, American Airlines …

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The National Statistics’ Office (ONE) has informed that between 2007 and 2016, 18,000 people lost their lives in traffic accidents, of which 87.4% were men and 14.42% women. Alexandra Izquierdo, director of ONE, said that in this decade there were 9,134 fatal motor accidents, with an average of 1,880 deaths per year. She said that …

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