2018 – Page 261

A Santo Domingo court ordered three months preventive custody to sisters Pamela and Serena Stefani, accused of rendering services that seriously affected the health of 24 women. The women sued the physicians for mal practice, especially in the cases of performing hidrolipoclasia procedures. The medical specialists were sent to Najayo Women’s Jail. El Caribe reports …

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La Romana court judge Vicky Chalas ruled 18 months in preventive custody against former military suspected of being accomplices in a recent drug transfer operation at the La Romana International Airport. They are accused of violating the money laundering law, the drug law and airport security law. It has been reported that the shipment of …

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The Central Office of Criminal Investigations (Dicrim) of the National Police are looking for a supposed band of assassins who carry out assaults on city streets and are accused of killing two police and army officers to take their fire arms. The members of the supposed band are 25 year old Argenis Cruz Orozco, Reynaldo …

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The appeal by the former director of the public transport bus company Omsa, Manuel Rivas, who is in jail accused of corruption and ties to the assassination of UASD law professor Yuniol Ramírez has been suspended with no definitive date for the next hearing. The appeal was to be heard in Santo Domingo but was …

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According to the Japanese government, a Japanese patrol plane spotted contact between North Korean and Dominican Republic tankers in the East China Sea, raising suspicion of a possible transfer of cargo in violation of UN sanctions on the North. The aircraft took photos of the scene near Shanghai on Saturday as it was patrolling for …

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Former presidential candidate for the leading opposition political party, the PRM, Luis Abinader announced hiring the counsel of Guiliani Partners for recommendations on solutions for the rising number of femicides in the Dominican Republic. This extends the consulting on citizen safety that Guiliani Partners has offered to Abinader, a 2020 PRM presidential candidate hopeful. The …

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In the afternoon of Tuesday, 24 January 2018, officers of the APTPRA bus company that has had a monopoly on regular passenger bus service to the Punta Cana area announced after a meeting with National Transport Institute (Intrant) officers that it would hold on its work stoppage to give time to talks with Intrant. A …

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The director of the Specialized Corps of Airport Security and Civil Aviation (CESAC), Brigadier General Aracenis Castillo de Cruz, says that more than 100,000 articles have been confiscated from passengers during 2017 prior to these boarding their flights. He said that the confiscations happened during inspections of 15 million items of luggage and the checking …

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After four ivory tusks were confiscated for their illegal entry to the Dominican Republic, they are now on exhibition at the Museum of Natural History Professor Eugenio de Jesús Marcano (MNHN). The tusks measure two 70 and 80 inches, and another two 80 and 98 inches. The Customs Agency (DGA) donated these to the museum …

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Defense Minister Rubén Darío Paulino Sem has announced that hundreds more soldiers will be sent to the Haitian border to prevent the illegal entry of Haitians to the Dominican Republic. He said that 291 soldiers would be sent to Dajabón, 150 to Elías Piña, 100 to Jimaní and another 100 to Pedernales. He went on …

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