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| Tuesday, April 24th, 2012 |
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Sex suspected to be behind murder of engineer
Story Text & Photos © 2012 by DR1 Apr 24 2012 07:29AM
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DR1 - The Police has announced the arrest of a 19-year old former Dominican Air Force private who they say has confessed to stabbing 60-year old engineer Antonio Turull Duluc, who died last Tuesday, as reported in El Caribe. Turull managed to drive himself to the Abreu Clinic, but died of his wounds shortly after arriving. The Police say that Joan Antonio Calderon Jeronimo from San Jose de Ocoa confessed to the killing. The Police says he confessed that he killed Turull when the latter, accompanied by two other men, tried to undress him violently. According to the police, Calderon was discharged from the FAD due to desertion, prior to the incident.
El Dia reports that Calderon`s relatives say the Police report is false and are calling for a more thorough investigation to establish the identity of the other two individuals who were present at the time of the murder and who are fugitives from justice. Calderon`s mother, Marilyn Jeronimo and sister, Danilda Custodio said that Joan Calderon Jeronimo is still active in the Air Force. They said the Police beat him up so he would confess of a crime he had not committed. He was taken to the Ciudad Nueva jail for preventive custody order, and on the way there he told journalists he was innocent.
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US-Puerto Rico agents arrest 3 Dominicans with 688Ks cocaine
Story Text & Photos © 2013 by Dominican Today Jun 18 2013 20:29PM
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SAN JUAN- Three Dominicans trying to smuggle 688 kilos of cocaine into Puerto Rico were arrested by authorities, U. S. Federal Attorney in San Juan, Rosa Emilia Rodriguez announced Tuesday, EFE reports.
She said René Peña Almonte, Jose Antonio Toribio and Raul Rodriguez Pascual were intercepted Tuesday aboard a speedboat 195 miles south of Ponce, and the drug seized is valued at US$24 million.
In a press conference at U. S. Coast Guard headquarters in San Juan, the official said that when the Coast Guard found the boat detainees began throwing some of the 20 bales of sea drugs were confiscated later. “We’ve just struck a hard blow to drug trafficking. The important thing is that we didn’t allow the drug to reach its final destination, the United States. “
For his part, Immigration and Customs Enforcement director Angel Melendez stressed the cooperation between U. S. authorities in Puerto Rico and local agencies to fight drug trafficking.
He said drug smugglers lately follow a route from Colombia and Venezuela passes to the area south of Puerto Rico. “We see a trend of transporting narcotics from South America in large quantities. “
Read original at Dominican Today.
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Credit card rates will fall in 2 months: Banks chief
Story Text & Photos © 2013 by Dominican Today Jun 18 2013 18:59PM
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 Dominican Today -
Santo Domingo- The Superintendent of Banks on Tuesday said the interest paid by cardholders will be lower in two months, as the mechanism it assumed to “operationalize“ their fall will take effect in that period.
Rafael Camilo said the Superintendence has been demanding that financial intermediates charge interest on the loans’ unpaid balance.
After the Monetary Board credit issued a credit card regulation, the official announced that the Banks Superintendence repealed the operation mechanisms for those regulations and that the instructions are available. He said instructions tend to lower the amount of interest.
As to interest rates announced by the banks with funding from the RD$20. 0 billion released from the Central Bank’s reserve requirements, Camilo said that entity has been reporting that only RD$5. 3 billion have been placed in the last two weeks, and that not all banks have the same among of money available.
He said the reserve released is part of the deposit by banks in the Central Bank, when they capture the money and the big banks have the most because they’re the ones which capture more from the public, such as the Reservas bank, but the small ones capture less and that might be why it depletes faster.
Camilo added that it’s not true that the RD$20. 0 billion available for new loans at a maximum of 9% will drag down the rate of the old loans.
Read original at Dominican Today.
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Medina breaks ground for Santo Domingo Beltway
Story Text & Photos © 2013 by Dominican Today Jun 18 2013 16:30PM
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Santo Domingo- President Danilo Medina on Tuesday headed groundbreaking for the construction of the Santo Domingo Beltway, whose first phase will cost more than US$97. 0 million.
The chief executive was accompanied by Public Works minister Gonzalo Castillo in the activity to start the work on the four-lane highway that will link the port at Boca Chica with the two at Haina.
The first phase will link the ports at Haina with the Duarte Highway, and the second stage, slated to start in 2016, will complete the bypass by linking Boca Chica.
“This roadway will connect two major port areas and the five major roads that serve Santo Domingo, while taking heavy traffic out of the capital,” Castillo said in the ceremony held Tuesday morning.
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Government signs US$80. 2M loan to fix East Region’s roads
Story Text & Photos © 2013 by Dominican Today Jun 18 2013 16:29PM
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Santo Domingo- The Central American Economic Integration Bank (BCIE) loaned US$80. 2 million to Dominican Government to finance a project to improve and expand the Eastern Corridor’s roadways.
Finance minister Simon Lizardo and BCIE CEO Nick Rischbieth on Friday signed the agreement which partially funds the construction sections of the San Pedro- La Romana highway and the San Pedro Beltway, totaling 34. 0 kilometers.
In a statement, the Finance Ministry said the funs will also be used to build the La Romana Beltway, a new span of 14. 0 km, and the Tourist Boulevard of the East, of ??30. 0 kilometers.
Read original at Dominican Today.
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Public Health to strengthen measures against H1N1
Story Text & Photos © 2013 by Dominican Today Jun 18 2013 16:29PM
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Santo Domingo. – Public Health minister Freddy Hidalgo will reveal on Monday the new measures against the H1N1 flu, after meeting with the National Epidemiological Surveillance Committee. He said health authorities will analyze the epidemiological situation, including dengue and other diseases. Hidalgo reminded that 200,000 doses of H1N1 flu vaccine will arrive in the
country in less than two weeks to deal with the virus.
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Three Dominican women missing in Lebanon
Story Text & Photos © 2013 by Dominican Today Jun 18 2013 16:29PM
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Santo Domingo. – The Foreign Ministry is making efforts to locate three Dominican women whose relatives reported they are in Lebanon but have not heard from them in a month. The three women are Carmen J. Custodio Tejada, Awilda Felicita Tejada Cabral and Ana Mieses.
According to their relatives, the three women went to Lebanon with an employment contract for three months. Two of them had previously traveled abroad for the same purposes.
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Agents nab “highly dangerous” Iranian wanted in France
Story Text & Photos © 2013 by Dominican Today Jun 18 2013 16:29PM
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Santo Domingo- Iranian national Larki Ashtari, wanted in France on burglaries, grand theft and kidnappings was arrested in the city Wednesday, by National Investigation Department (DNI) agents.
The DNI called Ashtari a highly dangerous criminal who entered Dominican Republic from Paris, via Punta Cana Airport on July 21, 2012, returning to that nation on September 15 of that year.
It said the foreigner entered Dominican territory again January 24, 2013, despite being barred from leaving France on pending cases.
The DNI Ashtari, arrested on the corner of Churchill and Contreras avenues, fled France after agents who raided his residence found credit cards and materials to forge them, adding that he had constantly changed his appearance.
Read original at Dominican Today.
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Medina asks industrialists “what’s your effort”?
Story Text & Photos © 2013 by Dominican Today Jun 18 2013 16:29PM
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San Cristobal, Dominican Republic- During president Danilo Medina’s now traditional surprise visits on Sunday, he called on the San Cristobal Industrial Park cluster to make a greater sacrifice, when its beneficiaries asked him for the steel buildings, a power plant, money to purchase machinery and working capital.
“You cannot ask the government to pay for the warehouses, to give them away, put in a power plant, buy machines and provide working capital, and what’s your effort? What is it? You have to make some kind of sacrifice, and then the government supports your sacrifice,“ he said.
He pledged to send a commission Thursday to see how they can move forward, because the group had “nothing finished yet. Here there’s a park to be completed, the steel buildings are incomplete. You have no machinery, or formally constituted companies. We have to start from scratch with you. “
The president first listened to the park cluster’s representatives and then advised them to prepare if they wanted government aid. “I cannot help ideas in the head of any of the people who want it. I want concrete projects. “
Medina, speaking to textiles, ironworks, electronics, lumber and flour industry representatives in the province, said the commission will determine if all of the park’s infrastructure can be finished
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Haiti ban shows Hispaniola commission’s lack of clout on trade rows
Story Text & Photos © 2013 by Dominican Today Jun 18 2013 16:29PM
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Santo Domingo- The row unleashed by Haiti’s ban on Dominican eggs and poultry has shed light on the Joint Dominican-Haitian Bilateral Commission’s lack of clout in the current disputes among the two Hispaniola island nations, despite being “two wings of the same bird. “
The row also shows both countries’ weakness toward dialogue and the bungled handling of their historical relations.
The Commission created in 2007 links 18 Dominican agencies and five business associations, to channel funds and initiatives for the development of both nations.
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Dominican leader warns Haiti of “drastic” measures on poultry ban
Story Text & Photos © 2013 by Dominican Today Jun 18 2013 16:29PM
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Santo Domingo- President Danilo Medina on Tuesday warned of possibly drastic measures to prevent Dominicans eggs and poultry’s dependence on Haiti’s market and ruled out shuttering the border as some sectors suggest, because “we don’t have to go that far,“ calling the standoff trade dispute.
He didn’t specify what measures could be taken and announced a meeting with poultry farmers at the Agriculture Ministry tomorrow to find a solution to the glut.
“The Minister of Agriculture will meet tomorrow with the producers of chickens and eggs, let’s see what measures we can work with them. We might have to take measures likely drastic, but we have to take them,“ Medina said, noting that the country should start looking for solutions to Haiti’s ban on Dominican poultry imports.
The chief executive, speaking at groundbreaking for the Santo Domingo Beltway, whose first phase will cost more than US$97. 0 million, revealed that economic interests in Haiti and other nations are behind the ban, but didn’t provide specifics.
He said “it’s business, they requested a grace period, but didn’t say how long,“ when asked about Haiti’s decision to study the request prior to lifting the ban which he affirms is unreasonable, since the Pan-American Health Organization certified that there’s no bird flu in the country.
Read original at Dominican Today.
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