2011 – Page 7

The outrage provoked by the 3:20am robbery of a plane from the La Isabela International Airport north of Santo Domingo, mainly used for domestic flights, has led reporters to discover that the theft is not a first. As reported in El Caribe, another airplane was stolen from La Isabela in 2010. On 7 March that …

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A group of 19 members of the Specialized Airport Security Corps (CESA) working at the Aeropuerto Internacional La Isabela (El Higuero), where an aircraft was stolen in the early hours of Sunday morning are under investigation. The group was on duty in the early hours of the morning in which the robbery of the airplane …

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A Chamber of Accounts audit of Jose Enrique Sued’s municipal administrations in Santiago has unearthed what are being described as “irregularities” in the use of some RD$3 billion pesos. According to El Caribe, these irregularities range from double payments to the purchase of assets without following the proper procedures: a public tender. El Caribe has …

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The province of San Jose de Ocoa has become a Mecca for greenhouses in the Dominican Republic. According to El Caribe, these greenhouses are responsible for 40% of vegetables grown in the Dominican Republic and one-third of the nation’s production under controlled conditions. More than 50 trucks leave from communities such as Rancho Arriba, La …

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There were no games in the DR last night, which was just as well as Dominicans were glued to their television sets watching stars like Alberto Pujols, Nelson Cruz, Adrian Beltre and Rafael Furcal. Beltre hit a tremendous homerun to tie the game before a bases-loaded double by catcher Mike Napoli scored two more runs …

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They are already famous in the DR for being the voices of the catchy Coca Cola anniversary advertisement. Now, coinciding with its director Dominican-American Francisco J. Nunez being named a MacArthur Fellow (US$500,000 Genius Grant award), the Young People’s Chorus of New York City will be on stage in at the National Theater in Santo …

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Central Bank governor Hector Valdez Albizu forecasts that the economy will close the year with a 5% growth rate. He urged Dominicans to be zealous about maintaining macro-economic stability, as reported in Diario Libre. Despite the global financial crisis, Valdez said that the economy has grown 4.2% of GDP in the January-September 2011 period. He …

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Engineer Jose Abel Noboa, urban infrastructure director at the National District Municipality (ADN) has announced that designs are ready for the installation of a net for collecting solid waste before it reaches the mouths of the Ozama and Isabela rivers. The system will have sliding doors to allow vessels to pass through. The net, which …

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Chamber of Deputies president Abel Martinez submitted the 2012 Budget to a vote on the grounds “that it had been already been amply discussed”. A video circulating on the Internet shows the moment Martinez pushed for a rapid vote to approve the budget in a second reading on Friday, 21 October. Reportedly, the budget contains …

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Writing in today’s Diario Libre editorial, Inez Aizpun commented on the video, saying that the Chamber of Deputies president acted as an auctioneer. “And that way, with the urgency of someone who wants to get out of an uncomfortable but obligatory situation, perhaps swallowing in dry and evidently nervous, Don Abel led the Legislative Branch …

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