2019 – Page 266

The Fundación Global Democracia y Desarrollo (Funglode) ranked 38th in the Latin American and Caribbean region, with the exception of Mexico, in the Global Go To ThinkTanks Index Report 2018, carried out by the University of Pennsylvania in the United States. The leading Dominican think tank competed against thousands of think tanks in the region. …

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The Central Electoral Board (JCE) judges agreed with political parties that the government would pick up most of the tab for choosing their presidential candidates in the 2020 general election. In the past, the cost to choose the candidates was covered totally by the political parties. The Political Parties Law had established that the cost …

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The president of the Supreme Court of Justice Mariano German said he would not opt to continue at the helm of the leading court. He will not subject his seven-year presidency record to assessment by the National Council of the Magistracy (CNM). He says he is retiring for personal reasons. He said he will remain …

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President Danilo Medina was in Punta Cana on Tuesday, 5 February 2019 for the inauguration of the 85MW power generator of the Consorcio Energético Punta Cana-Macao. The new CEPM generator is a dual turbine (natural gas and diesel). While there, Medina took a Tesla electric car on a test drive. He drove the car accompanied …

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After an opening pitch by Panamanian Cooperstown Hall of Famer Mariano Rivera, the Caribbean Series took off at the Rod Carew Stadium in Panama City on Monday, 4 February 2019. It was a good start for the Dominican Republic team. Playing without their three leading stars, the Dominican representative, the Estrellas Orientales defeated Puerto Rico’s …

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The Dominican national baseball team defeated Colombia 17-4 to qualify for the Lima, Peru Pan Am Games this summer 2019. Others that will represent the Central America and the Caribbean are Puerto Rico and Cuba. The Dominican team under Pedro Lopez won four of five games in the qualifying round. Read more in Spanish:Listin Diario 5 …

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The National Police announced the arrest of three Puerto Ricans and a Dominican who had arrest orders issued by a Puerto Rican court for their suspect participation in the murder of the head of a drug trafficking gangster “Tonka” and trapper Kevin Fret. The arrested are Puerto Ricans 32-year old Waldemar Febres Sánchez; 32-year old …

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The Public Ministry has asked Santo Domingo West judges to condemn those involved in the disappearance and assassination of the 10-year old child, Carla Massiel, to 30 years in prison. Those accused are Darwin Trinidad Infante and Juan Cabral Martinez. The case is heard by judges María Socorro, Nelson Romero Alba and Cecilia Toribio Melo. …

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During the first nine months of 2018, there were 801 murders in the Dominican Republic, equal to 10.4 per 100,000 population. The figures were provided by the Observatory for Citizen Safety and published in Diario Libre newspaper. They reveal that the most crime in the first nine months of the year occurred in the Santo …

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