2019 – Page 224

The Sala Ravelo of the National Theater will be staging the play, “El Precio,” the local version of the Arthur Miller classic tells the story of two brothers, one a surgeon, the other a policeman, who meet again after 16 years of not talking to each other. They are brought together because the family home, …

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On Monday, 25 March 2019, it rained heavily in Santiago and different areas of the Cibao, leading to some flooding. This was the first heavy rainfall for some time, bringing relief to the population and agriculture. In the province of Valverde (Mao) there has been the highest amount of rainfall, although the drought is not …

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According to the press in Canada, Mike Di Battista, the Canadian shot and killed in his vehicle in Sosúa on the evening of Sunday, 24 March 2019, had connections with several international criminal organizations linked to drug-trafficking. The Dominican police said inside the car in which he was murdered were two passports, one Italian and …

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Agents of the National Drug Control Agency (DNCD) and the specialized Corps of Airport Security (CESAC) have arrested a 60-year-old man who was trying to take liquid cocaine out of the country in bottles that appeared to be beauty products. The as-yet unidentified man was trying to board a flight to Brussels. The suspected drugs …

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On Tuesday 26 March, a National District court held the preliminary hearing for Gabriel Villanueva, accused of the death of the young Rumanian woman, Andreea Celea. Villanueva has been serving a year of pre-trial custody in the San Pedro de Macoris jail. He maintains his innocence. Villanueva’s lawyer, Plutarco Jacquez, said that the prosecution had …

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Guillermo Peña was on his way on his Passola motorbike when life dealt him the card that turned him into a hero. He would not think twice when jumping into the choppy Caribbean to save two persons who fell into the sea when the dump truck they were riding fell Monday, 25 March 2019 afternoon …

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National Police spokesman Colonel Frank Durán said in a press conference that there are around 12,000 police officers ready to be promoted but there are insufficient vacancies for all of them. He said that there were 4,000 vacancies originally, but thanks to efforts by director Ney Aldrin Bautista, that could increase to almost 7,000. On …

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ASISA Research Group released findings of a March poll on Tuesday 26 March that shows that former President Leonel Fernández of the PLD leads in popularity with 47% acceptance, followed by Luis Abinader, from the Revolutionary Modern Party (PRM), who would garner 39% if the elections scheduled for May 2020 were held on the day …

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Caribbean specialists meeting for the presentation of the Center for Strategic International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, D.C. looked into corruption, lack of political will, and absence of trust between the two countries as factors for the tense situation between both countries in trade and social issues, as Mark Schneider, former assistant administrator for USAID’s Latin …

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The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) has highlighted that development in the Dominican Republic is due to the democratic stability over the last 50 years. In a report presented recently in Washington DC about trade on the Dominican-Haitian border, CSIS experts reminded that the Dominican Republic and Haiti once had the same level …

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