2019 – Page 209

The President-elect of El Salvador, 37-year old Nayib Bukele and his wife, Gabriela Rodríguez were in Santo Domingo this week and met with President Danilo Medina at the Presidential Palace. President Danilo Medina received the President-elect accompanied by Foreign Minister Miguel Vargas Maldonado, Administrative Minister of the Presidency José Ramón Peralta, and legal advisor to …

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Officers of the National Drug Control Agency (DNCD), supported by the Prosecution Service and intelligence agencies, have confiscated 86 packets of what is thought to be cocaine in an incident in Santo Domingo East. The operation was being carried out near the East-West tollbooth, on the Las Americas Highway, when they stopped three men in …

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Hugo Carvajal, the former head of the military counterintelligence during the governments of Hugo Chávez, entered the Dominican Republic using a fake passport issued by the General Prosecutor in Venezuela. According to the Spanish news agency, the passport was under the name of Jose Mourinho, the same name as the famous Portuguese football trainer. The …

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Police in the Dominican Republic confirmed to international press the arrest of US citizen 67-year old Michael Geilenfeld in the Dominican Republic. The man is the founder of the Maison Saint-Joseph orphanage in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and has been accused of molesting boys in his care. Police spokesman Colonel Frank Felix Duran Mejia did not give …

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The National Police has arrested a 17-year old teenager who is accused as the person who killed 62-year old Domingo Evangelista Bretón Martínez, brother of the Bishop of Santiago in January this year in the municipality of Licey, Santiago. Spokesman for the Santiago police, Colonel Juan Guzman Badia, said that his name cannot be given …

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Records show there have been nine femicides in the Dominican Republic so far this year. The latest victim is Angélica María Rodríguez Muñoz, aged 21 and the ex-partner of Celestino Trinidad (Becerro), who killed her together with a young man. The first killed this year was Elira Cabrera, ex-partner of Juan Recio, who killed her …

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Roman Catholic Church Archbishop of Santo Domingo Francisco Ozoria went public with his concern about the lack of independence amongst the branches of government. He warned the country is headed to a dictatorship if people don’t wake up and change. “We have a structure in government that is not respecting that the branches of government …

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In a televised interview with Puerto Plata mayor Walter Musa, TV investigative journalist Nuria Piera revealed several inconsistencies and irregularities regarding the site the mayor has chosen for a new landfill for the city of Puerto Plata. There is concern the new site will bring more problems than the previous site. During the TV show, …

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El Informe de Alicia Ortega revealed proof presented by several students that had prior access to the standardized test through which the government chooses who among recent medical graduates get medical residencies in government hospitals. The investigative journalist showed proof of cell phones with the test received a day before it was given at the …

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Fire brigades from the Ministry of the Environment from Constanza, La Vega, San Juan de la Maguana and other areas were sent to the Sierra de Bahoruco in the southwest on Sunday, 14 April 2019, to help others in the area to extinguish the forest fire that has reduced thousands of pine trees to ashes. …

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