2018 – Page 4

On Wednesday, 19 December 2018, the Senate passed the bill that divides the province of Santiago into two. There now will be the province of Santiago and the province of Santiago Oeste in the area of Cienfuegos. This was the third time that legislator Altagracia Mercedes González of the Chamber of Deputies (PLD-Santiago) had presented …

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President Danilo Medina was at the Palacio de los Deportes in the Juan Pablo Duarte Olympic Center on Wednesday, 19 December 2018 for the graduation of 30,614 trainees in 88 specialties. The young men and women graduated after completing courses at 24 Armed Forces and National Police vocational schools located nationwide. The courses were in …

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A Brazilian singer-songwriter Alexandre Pires will be performing at the Hard Rock Live Santo Domingo on 22 February 2019 at 8pm. He will then travel to Punta Cana for a performance at the Hard Rock Punta Cana on 23 February. He is best known for his Samba hits “Amor verdadero”, “Ámame”, “Es por amor”, “Quitémonos …

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Bachata king Anthony Santos will be at El Viajero night spot in San Cristobal for a Christmas performance. “Bazucazo Navideño” this year known as “La Historia de mi Vida, El Final, El Espectaculo” is set for Saturday evening, 22 December 2018. Tickets are available online at Ticketexpress (ticket.com.do) 19 December 2018

Jordany Valdespin of the Toros del Este was voted the most valuable player of the regular season of the Dominican Professional Winter Baseball Championship 2018. Valdespin won the Dominican tournament MVP are receiving the most votes by participating Dominican sports writers. The awards are organized by Producciones Apolo for the Dominican Professional Winter Baseball League …

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33-year old Jorge Gabriel Baez Abreu was serving a 30-year homicide sentence handed down in 2015 by a Puerto Plata court for the attempted murder of two people. The sentence had been confirmed by the Supreme Court of Justice in 2017. But Baez seemingly maneuvered to get out of jail to receive medical assistance at …

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There is too little information or advances on juridical investigations of the participation of military, police and National Drug Control Agency officers in recent crimes, as revealed in a wrapup of past cases published in El Nacional. The newspaper reports on a series of crimes for which the press has not been able to find …

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The Dominican authorities seized 722 packages of drugs, presumably cocaine, that had arrived from Colombia during an operation on the coast of Boca de Yuma, La Altagracia province, said the National Drug Control Agency (DNCD). The operation had a deployment by air, sea and land, anti-narcotics officers and troops of the Armada, supported by the …

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Brazilian justice sentenced ten former Embraer executives for having paid US$3.5 million in bribes to Dominican Air Force colonel Carlos Piccini Nuñez. Piccini was the director of special projects for the Dominican Air Force. The former Embraer executives include vice president Eduardo Muñoz de Campos. The bribes were to guarantee the sale of eight Super …

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