2019 – Page 283

Precipitate Gold Corporation announced it is now the owner of all Everton Resources Inc. exploration concessions in the Dominican Republic. This includes Pueblo Grande Project, adjoining Barrick’s and Goldcorp’s world-class Pueblo Viejo gold-silver mine, and the Ponton Project located approximately 30 km east of Pueblo Grande. Precipitate said that Mejico Angeles-Lithgow, formerly president and executive …

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News reports suggest that the Dominican authorities at the Dominican Petroleum Refinery (Refidomsa PDV), where the Venezuela state-owned PDVSA has 49% stake, would be interested in purchasing back the shares from PDV Caribe, the Venezuelan subsidiary. Similar negotiations are happening in Jamaica. PDV Caribe has reportedly yet to agree to sell its stake and, “if …

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The Dominican Republic is featured among the top five countries in Latin America with the best ground road infrastructure. But there is always a wish list of more. Former Minister of Public Works, engineer Pedro Delgado Malagón (1982-1986) shares with readers the locations of missing roads in a report in El Caribe newspaper today. He …

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Vice President Margarita Cedeño went public on 16 January 2019 to say that the country is not prepared for a second constitutional reform just to enable the re-election of President Danilo Medina. “We must wait for the decision of President Danilo Medina, anyway Danilo is a man who knows his role in history and is …

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Digesett agents will be ensuring as of Friday, 17 January 2019 that truckers adhere to driving exclusively in the right lane on avenues and highways. Trucks and cargo vehicles are also now limited to driving at 70kph on highways and at a maximum of 55kph on other roads. The new ruling for Transit Law 63-17 …

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The National Council of the Magistry (CNM) approved the ruling for the selection of 12 Supreme Court of Justice judges. The Wednesday, 16 January 2019 meeting of the CNM was presided by President Danilo Medina at the Presidential Palace. Afterwards, in a press conference at the Presidential Palace, the spokesman for the CNM, Supreme Court …

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La Romana’s Toros del Este will be playing the Estrellas Orientales for the 2018-2019 Dominican Professional Winter Baseball Championship. The Estrellas, now managed by Fernando Tatis, have their hearts on winning this year. The team has not won a championship in 50 years. To win the slot in the playoffs, the Toros del Este defeated …

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The US Coast Guard announced it intercepted 66 migrants, mainly from the Dominican Republic, in the last 72 hours during five separate operations in the waters near Puerto Rico. The US Coast Guard reports that three of the men were riding with a Mexican migrant when their craft was intercepted roughly four nautical miles off …

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Colombian Alex Cifuentes, prosecution witness in the trial against Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán Loera in New York, has confirmed that his one-time boss ordered the murder of at least two people, although neither was actually killed. Cifuentes also explained how they set up routes to take drugs to Mexico from Venezuela, saying that El Chapo …

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On Monday night, 14 January 2019, three bodies were discovered, two burned inside an SUV, in Higueral-Cacata, La Romana province. According to a police report, a third body with a bullet wound was discovered near the vehicle. The victims were identified as Juan Gil Adames, Ángel Carrión and Gregorio Pérez Santana, all residents of La …

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