2018 – Page 39

The Jaragua Renaissance Hotel in Santo Domingo presents, “Simplemente Maridalia,” with Dominican singer Maridalia Hernández this coming 24 November 2018. The concert will include her best hits over the years. Big Show is the promoter of the show. Maridalia is a former singer with the 4 x 40 Juan Luis Guerra original group. She later …

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Rollingstone online shares a video presenting the impressive community of Dominicans living in New York City that have transformed cars, vans and SUV into “gargantuan, roving speaker systems.” The short film, “Mas Fuerte,” presents the ins and outs of the underground musicologists and engineers, and received funding from Presidente Beer. Rollingstone says that Más Fuerte, …

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The president of the International Federation of Association Football (FIFA) Giovanni Vincenzo Infantino has sent congratulations to the Cibao Futbol Club (Cibao FC) on their win of the Dominican Football League 2018 championship in the four years of participation in the tournament. This is the first time Cibao FC has won the tournament. Read more …

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A Santo Domingo court sentenced Italian Giancarlo Corso to 10 years in jail after he was found guilty of sexual exploitation and psychological abuse to a 16-year old girl on 22 March 2018 in the Colonial City. The court determined that the Italian took advantage of the vulnerable young girl. As reported, he promised to …

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The president of the Union de Farmacias, Raul Hernandez, that represents working pharmacies, complained that the medical health providers (ARS) deduct 10% of sales of pharmaceuticals sold to ARS affiliates. “And this happens under the indifferent and sometimes even complacent gaze of the agencies that must regulate their macabre actions,” he criticized. Hernandez criticized the …

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A crocodile was captured in Santo Domingo Norte. This is the second after the capture of Coqui, who was taken to the National Zoo and is recovering from the intense stress of living in an urban area, said the Zoo specialists. The new crocodile was captured on Sunday, 4 November, and also taken to the …

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The Fundación Moscoso Puello has stated: The Valle Nuevo is the most important national environmental asset and is being destroyed with impunity.” What is known is that several farmers are attempting to retake farm land in the Valle Nuevo National Park in the protected areas of Montellano and Pinalito. Hoy reported farmers in Pinalito were …

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A report in Listin Diario on Monday, 5 November 2018, looks into the new demographics for the city of Santiago. The city has sprawled out to an area of 120 square kilometers and a population estimated at around 1,225,000 inhabitants. An additional 100,000 to 125,000 people enter and leave the city every day. Santiago is …

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The Ministry of Environment rescued two reticulated pythons that were in possession of unnamed persons in northwestern Santiago Rodríguez province. The pythons were sent to the National Zoo on Saturday, 3 November 2018. A video that is circulating on social media shows the snakes being transferred to the custody of Zoo personnel. The snakes measured …

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Rafael Espinal, coordinator of the economics career at the INTEC university in Santo Domingo called for the government to share more details on what would be the first Exim Bank of China loan to the government. The government has announced it is negotiating a US$600 million loan for the energy sector. “The strange thing about …

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