2017 – Page 57

The Estrellas Orientales have gotten a fast start in the local 2017-2018 Professional Baseball Winter League, having won all but one of their first six games. The Estrellas have a record of starting off well, but have never managed to win a championship. Nevertheless, they are known for their diehard fans who enjoy the games …

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17-year old Nick Hardt continues to climb in the international tennis world and is now ranked in the top 100 of the Under 18 ranking of the International Tennis Federation. This is a second time for a Dominican youth to make the top 100. Hardt is a DR-US dual citizen. He recently lost in the …

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Fundacion Solidaria Calasancia is the winner of the RD$5 million award this year by the Brugal rum foundation. The Gran Premio George Arzeno Brugal was announced on Friday, 20 October 2017. Other winners are: Social Assistance: Centro Geriaátrico San Joaquin y Santa Ana Salud: Patronato de Lucha contra el Cancer de la Provincia Espaillat Defensa …

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Vimenpaq is promoting its courier service on grounds that purchases made and sent to the Vimenpaq address in Doral, Florida will not pay US taxes when ordering from Amazon online. Giselle Mendez, president of Vimenpaq, said that so far Vimenpaq is the only freight forwarding company passing on this benefit to customers. The reason they …

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Lawyers of Jose Mercado Blanco (El Grande) have requested videos from the surveillance cameras of La Sirena store in Santiago de los Caballeros and Jacaranda in Monsenor Nouel. The lawyers, Junel Ramírez Merán and Olmedo Antonio Jaquez Peña say that their defendant was not in Santo Domingo when the murder of UASD law professor Yuniol …

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From 2013 to 2015, Police colonel Faustino Rosario Díaz, who is among those arrested for the murder of lawyer Yuniol Ramírez, purchased assets worth RD$17.2 million after entering the service of the Metropolitan Office of Bus Services (Omsa), as reported in El Dia. Rosario is under pre-trial custody and suspected of involvement in the murder …

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Eddy Santana Zorrilla is under pre-trial custody, accused of corruption, and criminal association. The accusation says that he was a supplier to Omsa through Grupo Martisdom and Tech Solution. The prosecutors established that neither of these companies has a formal office location. These companies also did not any staff registered with the Ministry of Labor. …

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Prosecutors investigating the murder of UASD law professor Yuniol Ramírez Ferreras continue to maintain the theory that the lawyer could have refused to sign a receipt for an alleged RD$1 million as an advance of RD$4 million to drop a corruption case in the judiciary against removed Omsa director Manuel Rivas was the motive for …

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The president of the National Petroleum Refinery and former Minister of Tourism, Felix Jiménez (Felucho), has apologized to Vice President Margarita Cedeño for his comment last week that became a trending topic on social media. The remark was made when Jiménez was asked about the popularity of Margarita Cedeño that a recent Mark Penn poll …

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Oxfam has presented a study that seeks to focus people’s attention on wasteful spending in government in the Dominican Republic. The study seeks to identify areas where inefficiency and political patronage prevails, and to give a size to corruption in pesos, as well as create an awareness of how all those resources could be invested …

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