2019 – Page 268

On Sunday, 3 February 2019, President Danilo Medina visited the Monte Grande dam site in southwestern Barahona to check for himself on the construction progress. Media reports say the President was annoyed when he saw there a notice that said it would be finished in July 2019. He urged the prompt completion of the dam …

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The pioneer of the Zero Waste movement of the United States, Bea Johnson, is the special guest speaker at 6pm Chez Space in Santo Domingo on Wednesday, 6 February 2019. The talk is sponsored by Sostenibilidad 3Rs, a local recycling movement. The cost of the talk is RD$2,000 per person and the talk is a …

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Surviving a tragic traffic accident in Samaná but losing his right leg when he was 16 years old in a motorcycle accident in Samaná, young dancer José Luis Gutiérrez performed at the Spain’s Got Talent reality show last week and landed a ticket to the semi-finals with a mesmerizing dance performance that ended with his …

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Dominican London Olympics silver medallist Luguelin Santos is preparing for his two most important commitments this year — the Pan Am Games in Lima, Peru (26 July – 11 August 2019) and the IAAF World Championships in Doha, Qatar from 28 September to 6 October 2019. His coach Jose Ludwig Rubio announced the preparatory competitions …

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The National Meteorology (Onamet) declared the south, southwest and northwest in extreme drought. The most affected by the drought are the municipalities of Villa Vasquez, Santiago Rodriguez in the northwest, Jimaní and Barahona and Hondo Valle in the southwest. Moca in the center of the country is also affected by extreme drought conditions. Read more …

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Virginia Carolina Rojas Collado, who had not long ago migrated from Venezuela, was found dead with knife wounds in her Av. Núñez de Cáceres apartment in San Gerónimo apartment in the National District. The apartment was locked but when a foul smell resulted, the firemen broke down the door finding the horrific scene of her …

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A tragic accident involved Santo Domingo East deputy Karen Ricardo who was returning with her husband Lorenzo Sanchez, child and nanny from Samana on Saturday afternoon. The parents and nanny Alexandra Vargas were hospitalized at the Dario Contreras Trauma Hospital and her two children were sent to the Dr. Hugo Mendoza Pediatrics Hospital on Av. …

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Rafael Antonio Diaz (Buche) was sentenced to a year of pre-trial custody Judge Rosaura Garabito in the murder case against colonel Daniel Ramos in Baní on 8 January 2019. Others sent to pre-trial custody are Luis Milcíades Santana (El Chamo) and Milcíades Ruiz (Chiquito Mala Fe), accused of murdered of gunshot the commander of the …

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After the 8 January 2019 murder in Baní of a police colonel was seen as evidence of the complicity of the National Police with drug trafficking in the Dominican Republic, the Antinarcotics Central Agency (Dican), the drug combatting division of the National Police announced that in the past two weeks after the incident it has …

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Prosecutors for the state continued the preliminary hearing of several of those implicated in the Odebrecht scandal involving some US$92 million (over RD$4.5 billion at today’s rates) in bribes to obtain large government contracts. The prosecutors read a long list of evidentiary materials together with eight testimonials, 25 pieces of materials and presented a stack …

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