2018 – Page 19

President Danilo Medina attended the inauguration of the new main facility of the Referencia Laboratorio Clínico, the largest clinical laboratory in the Dominican Republic. The lab that is located on Avenida Luperon in western Santo Domingo and had recently announced obtaining the accreditation under the United States’ College of American Pathologists (CAP’s) Laboratory Accreditation Program. …

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With the regular season ending on 17 December 2018, the very popular Aguilas Cibaeñas on Sunday, 2 December, in a 5-3 game they won against the Gigantes del Cibao, were able to tie with that team for the important fourth position and keep high their hopes for making the top four to move to the …

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Beloved Aguilas pitcher, 45-year old MLB legend Bartolo Colon didn’t deliver as promised in the game he pitched against the Tigres de Licey in the Aguilas home ball park Estadio Cibao in Santiago on Thursday, 29 November 2018. But that didn’t matter and his fans expressed their appreciation with a standing ovation, as MLB reported. …

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Peravia gets three years in prison in Florida courtWhile the local case by failed Banco Peravia deposits for fraud of over RD$1.4 billion has stalled in the courts here in the Dominican Republic, international media have carried the news that a former owner of the bank, 50-year old Venezuelan Gabriel Arturo Jimenez Aray, was sentenced …

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Officers of the Armed Forces are investigating the attempted theft of a Piper PA-23-350 aircraft at the Arroyo Barril International Airport in Samana on Wednesday, 28 November 2018 at around 10pm. The airport is mostly used for domestic flights to the south side of the peninsula of Samana and has very little traffic. According to …

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Scottish actor Gerard Butler has been hospitalized in Santo Domingo for treatment of diverticulitis. After on a humanitarian mission with Marys Meals in Haiti, the 49-year old actor Gerard Butler was hospitalized at the Centro de Diagnóstico Medicina Avanzada y Telemedicina (Cedimat) in Santo Domingo. He was diagnosed with diverticulitis, according to gastroenterologist Fernando Contreras, …

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The Ministry of Public Health reiterated late last week that vaccinations for the prevention of human rabies are available in all of the public hospitals and Primary Attention Centers. Persons bitten by animals should get the preventive shots. Hector Quezada, the deputy minister of Collective Health, made the announcement to clarify that while it is …

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29-year old Kiara Luz Romero Sánchez, a TV host survived what is being described as a suicidal jump from her third floor apartment in northeastern San Franicsco de Macoris on Thursday, 30 November 2018, where she lives with her husband, 29-year old Gigantes del Cibao baseball team player Carlos Paulino. Mother of one, she landed …

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Minister of Interior & Police José Ramon Fadul (Monchy) acknowledged the general concern after a covert migratory agreement allowed 63-year old Cuban Augusto Falcon (better known as Willie, the cocaine cowboy) to be admitted to the Dominican Republic, according to a report in Listin Diario. Fadul has said he is living in an upscale neighborhood …

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The executive vice president of the Dominican Public Electricity Corporation (CDEEE), Ruben Jiménez Bichara, reaffirmed last week that the Punta Catalina coal-fired generating facility would begin operations between January and February 2019. He says the plant will make generate 200MW for the national electrical grid. Jimenez Bichara made the announcement when speaking during the monthly …

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