2019 – Page 260

Carlos Sanchez plays the caveman, in the Dominican version of the “Defending the Caveman” (El Cavernicola), the Broadway comedy on the misunderstanding between men and women, winner of the Olivier award. The Dominican version of the play by Rob Becker is directed by Manuel Chapuseaux. It will be showing at the Escenario 360, the show …

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Eddy Herrera sings his romantic merengues and boleros on 13 February 2019 at Chao Café Teatro at Agora Mall, third level. Tickets are RD$1,200 at the door. Online with discount at Uepa Tickets, CCN, Supermercados Nacional and Jumbo megastores. 12 February 2019

26-year old rapper Cardi B (Belcalis Marlenis Almánzar) won her first Grammy Award on Sunday, 10 February 2019 and became the first solo woman to win a Grammy for a rap album. She won the best rap album award for “Invasion of Privacy” during the 61st Grammy Awards. “It was very long nights,” she said …

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Senator for Peravia province, Wilton Guerrero went public to ask the director of the Police, Major General Ney Aldrin Bautista to guarantee the lives of members of a Police patrol that seized a lot of cocaine in San Cristobal on 6 December 2019. The patrol members now fear for their lives. The shipment that was …

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The National Police suspect Venezuelans are behind the assault and robbery of a Richard Miller watch of a customer at the La Dolcerie in Piantini neighborhood of Santo Domingo on Saturday, 9 February 2019. Police director, General Ney Aldrin Bautista said that investigations so far lead to a Venezuelan gang. Surveillance camera footage is being …

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The National Drug Control Agency (DNCD) reported the seizing of 689 cocaine packages in Bayahibe in eastern La Altagracia province. Under arrest are two Colombians and a Dominican. The raid was carried out at dawn by DNCD units with the backing of the Dominican Armada and the coordination of Public Ministry prosecutors. The shipment of …

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The Second Collegiate Tribunal of the Santo Domingo East sentenced priest Elvin Taveras Duran to 30 years in jail for the murder of 16-year old altar boy Fernelis Carrion in 2017. Taveras will serve the sentence at the Najayo jail in San Cristobal. The court determined that the priest killed Carrion of a hammer blow …

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Two Italian divers, 57-year old Carlos Barbieri and 44-year old Carlos Basso, are missing after going for a cave dive on Saturday, 9 February 2019 in El Dudú in Cabrera, in northeastern María Trinidad Sánchez province. The Dominican Republic Speleological Society (DRSS) said that two of their experts, Phillip Lehman and Ángel Compres have joined …

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A feature in Hoy captures the most asked question by the seven that made it to the final hearing from a short list of 14 accused by the Attorney General Office’s of taking bribes for US$92 million that executives of the Brazilian construction firm Odebrecht admitted to paying for securing contract work in the Dominican …

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Dominican population increased 1,960,518 persons from 8,397,802 inhabitants to 10,358,320 at the end of 2018, reported the National Statistics Office (ONE). That is a 23.35% increase from 2000 to 2018, or an annual population increase of around 1.17%. The increase is almost equal for men (5,174,343 – 49.95%) and women (5,183,977 – 50.05%). There are …

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