2017 – Page 96

Hurricane Irma allowing, the 7th Guloya Iberoamerican Pocket Theater Festival opens Thursday, 7 September in Santo Domingo. Three plays from Thursday to Sunday will be performed on weekends from 7 to 24 September 2017. The first play on the program is “Banco de Parque” starring Maria Castillo and Manuel Chapuseaux from 7-10 September at the …

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Cristóbal Marte, the man responsible for the women’s volleyball system in the Dominican Republic that has produced top globally ranked teams, announced the project to build an elite training center for volleyball at the Juan Pablo Duarte Olympic Center is far advanced. Marte and head coach Marcos Kwiek shared details of the project with Diario …

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The Court of Appeals in Puerto Plata sentenced Gabriel Antonio Mora (Canoa) and Eddy Morfe to two years in prison for a RD$185 million municipal diversion of funds in the Cabarete Municipal District after 13 years of a seemingly unending legal battle. The appellate court also fined Canoa for a sum in excess of RD$800,000 …

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After on Wednesday, 30 August 2017, the Attorney General named a high-level commission to investigate the case of five-month old pregnant 16-year old Emely Peguero, the case moved ahead. The teenager, who was five-months pregnant, had been missing since 23 August when she told her parents she had go to a medical appointment. She left …

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The Dominican Republic ranked 20th of 26 countries in the 2017 Financial and Digital Inclusion Project (FDIP) Report: Building a Secure and Inclusive Global Financial Ecosystem. The report was released by the Center for Technology Innovation at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. The FDIP evaluates commitment to and progress toward financial inclusion across a …

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The National Drug Control Agency (DNCD) reported the confiscating of 589 green ceramic bananas that were being exported with packaged real bananas through the Port of Manzanillo in Montecristi. Intelligence operation led narcotics agents, accompanied by state prosecutors, to search a freight container with cargo destined for Europe. Upon breaking open a ceramic banana a fine …

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Security expert Daniel Pou says the Dominican military have failed the country in regards to border security. Pou says profiteering has prevailed before national interests among the military stationed at the border. Pou recommended the military no longer be left in charge of border security. He says they have done little to control illegal activities …

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The director of the Dominican Civil Aviation Institute (IDAC), Alejandro Herrera advanced that efforts are underway to use drones as a complement to the 911 Emergency System, as reported in Diario Libre. He said that several institutions have requested permission and these will be used for ambulatory medicine transport. He said IDAC technicians have already …

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All emergency systems are activated in the Dominican Republic as the country closely monitors Hurricane Irma as it moves west to the Caribbean. The efforts are coordinated by the Center for Emergency Operations (COE). On Sunday, 3 September 2017 in the evening, with Hurricane Irma already Category 3, the National Metereological Office (Onamet) issued an …

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Maaret Viskari, the director of Global Education at the School of Professional Education for Teachers, at Häme University of Applied Sciencies, Finland, was in Santo Domingo last week to present to the Dominican educational community the unorthodox Finnish education system. During her talk organized by the National Technical-Professional Institute (INFOTEP), Viskari highlighted that the success …

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