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Tanker blocks Duarte highway
Story Text & Photos © 2012 by DR1 Jun 13 2012 06:16AM
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DR1 - A Cosanca company tanker laden with 10,000 gallons of fuel oil veered to the side and blocked traffic on two lanes in each direction of the Duarte Highway yesterday, Monday 11 June. As reported, the driver lost control and the tanker fell sideways, obstructing traffic on the highway yesterday and causing hour-long traffic jams. The accident occurred near the traffic light before the tollbooth in the south-north direction. Firefighters and Metropolitan Transport Authority brigades helped organize traffic at the site of the accident. The driver and his assistant were taken to the Pedro Brand hospital but did not suffer serious injuries. Read original at DR1.
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Cross-border reforestation helps both Hispaniola nations
Story Text & Photos © 2013 by Dominican Today May 21 2013 16:59PM
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Dajabon, Dominican Republic- The Environment Ministry, other government agencies and private organizations on Sunday began a cross-border reforestation program along the line that divides Dominican Republic and Haiti.
Environment minister Bautista Rojas said it’s an initiative that will strongly impact both countries, with increased the forest cover in areas that have been devastated in recent decades, especially the Haiti side of Hispaniola.
“In fact the initiative that started on Sunday in Dajabón will contribute not only with regard to the vegetation, but preserve water sources and, therefore, improve the lives of people on both sides of the border,“ Rojas said.
Read original at Dominican Today.
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Justice Minister’s statement on children of Haitians draws wide rebuke
Story Text & Photos © 2013 by Dominican Today May 21 2013 16:59PM
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Santo Domingo- Justice minister Francisco Dominguez’s statement published in the media that children of Haitians born in Dominican Republic are Dominican has drawn quick rebuke, staring with Senate president Reinaldo Pared, who via Twitter said “it’s not true that those born to mothers who aren’t legal residents are Dominicans. “
Central Electoral Board (JCE) president Roberto Rosario also rejected Dominguez’s statement, noting that he suspects they were manipulated.
Pared also believes that Dominguez wouldn’t have made such a statement. “I don’t think my friend Dominguez would misinterpret the constitutional provision on nationality. “
“The children born in the country of Haitian mothers are as Dominicans as they come,“ Dominguez was quoted as saying.
Prominent attorney Vinicio Castillo Seman also rebuked the statement, and criticized the official for staging a confrontation with the Immigration Agency.
Read original at Dominican Today.
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Orb the favorite in Preakness with Dominican jockey
Story Text & Photos © 2013 by Dominican Today May 21 2013 16:30PM
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Baltimore, Maryland, US. – Joel Rosario, the leading jockey in the United States and the first Dominican ever to win the prestigious Kentucky Derby horse race two weeks ago, is favorite Saturday in the Preakness Horse race in Baltimore, Maryland.
The Santo Domingo born jockey will once again ride Orb unbeaten in his last Five starts in the second race that make ups horse racings Triple Cown.
The Triple Crown consists of three major horse races annually run during the months of may and june in the United States, The Kentucly Derby, The Preakness and the final race in New York, the Belmont Stakes.
Odds makers have 3 year Orb favorite Saturday. The last time one horse won all three races was 35 years ago.
Read original at Dominican Today.
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Justice minister´s initiative minimized by some sectors
Story Text & Photos © 2013 by Dominican Today May 21 2013 16:29PM
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Santo Domingo. – Justice minister Francisco Dominguez Brito regretted yesterday that his initiative to fight against human traffickers and those who pay for sex, is minimized by some sectors. Dominguez said his proposal can not be considered as simple, because it is a struggle aimed at fighting “major international trafficking rings for sexual purposes operating here illegally, and they also recruit minors. “ According to the also Attorney General, prostitution has long been practiced openly in much of the Dominican
Republic but the trafficking of people for the sex trade has become so widespread that the government
believes it must now impose controls on the industry. “We are talking in many cases about young girls who are semi-enslaved,“ he pointed out and added that added that the government will work in programs for prostitution prevention and social reintegration of these women.
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President Medina, Electoral Board chief mull funding crunch
Story Text & Photos © 2013 by Dominican Today May 21 2013 16:29PM
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Santo Domingo. – A Central Electoral Board (JCE) committee, led by its president Roberto Rosario, met with president Danilo Medina on Friday to discuss the agency’s financial woes, a concern that local media have reported in the last few days.
After the meeting, Rosario Marquez said the encounter was requested by the JCE last week, and “answered promptly by President Medina, who received him and talked a lot. “
In addition to the JCE president, the committee included Cesar F. Feliz, coordinator of the Electoral Board Budget Committee; financial director Diomedes Ogando; Secretary General Hilario Espiñeira, and Communications director, Felix Reyna.
Read original at Dominican Today.
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Medina says he’ll boost tourism, agro in poor regions
Story Text & Photos © 2013 by Dominican Today May 21 2013 16:29PM
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Pedernales, Dominican Republic- President Danilo Medina on Sunday affirmed that despite having shown an interest in developing the southwest region’s tourism, when the Bahia de las Aguilas land title conflict arose, “I didn’t see any one who have titles come to defend themselves. “
“You know that I gave a clear demonstration that I want to develop tourism in the region, but the boycott surged from some sectors of Dominican society with the problem of land titles and I didn’t see anyone of those title-holders coming to defend themselves,“ Medina said during a tour Pedernales, Bahoruco and Monseñor Noel provinces.
Speaking to hundreds of citizens who demand the development of their poverty-ravaged province, the chief executive also pledged RD$80. 0 million in funding for agriculture.
In nearby Neiba meanwhile, the head of state said new varieties of disease-resistant coffee varieties will be imported from Brazil, to help nursery cooperatives plant 1. 5 million seedlings.
Medina’s announcements came during a surprise visits with just a handful of officials, where he announced small-scale public works and vowed support for the national wine industry, headquartered in Neiba.
Read original at Dominican Today.
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Agents arrest fugitive wanted in NY on drug charges
Story Text & Photos © 2013 by Dominican Today May 21 2013 16:29PM
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Santo Domingo- The National Drugs Control Agency (DNCD) on Monday announced the arrest of a Dominican wanted in extradition to face drug charges in the United States.
It said Bienvenido Gonzalez Pujols, 46 ,was detained in the southwestern community of Hatillo, Azua, on a Supreme Court warrant.
“Gonzalez Pujols will be held in custody in the capital until the Justice Ministry’s International Affairs Dept. requests them for the relevant extradition procedure,“ says the DNCD in a statement.
According to New York South District Court documents, Gonzalez is charged with conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute one or more kilos of cocaine.
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Police bust lab prepared credit card frauds in Higuey
Story Text & Photos © 2013 by Dominican Today May 21 2013 16:29PM
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Santo Domingo. – Police Criminal Investigations agents on Sunday busted a clandestine laboratory in Higuey (east), where credit card fraud and phishing scams were devised.
Justice Ministry officials headed the operation and arrested Jorge Bienvenido Monegro Carpio, resident in the Residencial Sajul, where two IDs were seized, one Dominican and one Venezuelan.
Police said also seized was equipment used to clone credit cards, such as a magnetizer, miniature tools, devices to capture passcodes from credit and debit cards, Blackberries, printers, computers and laptops.
Read original at Dominican Today.
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Everybody steals water, top official says
Story Text & Photos © 2013 by Dominican Today May 21 2013 16:29PM
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Santo Domingo- The government’s aqueduct agency(INAPA) has charged more than 100 farmers and businesspersons with stealing water through illegal pipes connections, in connivance with some of its employees.
INAPA director Alberto Holguin called the action an attack on people’s health and lives, and warned it will not continue.
“I accuse of that action the three sectors which have the power to do so: those with military power, those with political power and those with economic power abuse it, including elected officials,“ the official told listin. com. do, but didn’t name names.
Holguin said he personally investigated a case in northwestern Mao, Valverde, during a time when the town had no water, but next door there was a large lagoon “with totally fresh water“ for animals.
“Our employees take the water, reroute it to the farmers for their animals to drink and I leave the people without water, but then I see two lagoons, even authorized by a mayor and then see how animals have abundant water, and then the people, thirsty for a drop of water, that’s a crime, a crime that we have to deal with as the authority,“ Holguin said.
Read original at Dominican Today.
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People trafficking networks, Dom. Rep. ’s most organized, powerful
Story Text & Photos © 2013 by Dominican Today May 21 2013 16:29PM
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Santo Domingo- The networks that traffic with, and smuggle persons are the most organized in the country, in addition to being “extremely powerful. “
Justice minister Francisco Domínguez said the fact that Dominicans rank fourth among women prostitutes around the world, results form in most cases, to the recruitment networks.
He said that’s why the arrest of johns seeking prostitutes will continue, since the women in those relationships are the most vulnerable. “People think this is a joke and laugh, but it’s no game. “
He said despite the debate the measure has generated it’s not just about victim abuse, but other aspects which the country should also be “strongly“ aware of, including the victim’ experience of slavery conditions among both sexes.
Dominguez, quoted by diariolibre. com, added that the Dominicans are stigmatized in some of the countries they visit and regrets that the country is sold abroad as a paradise for sex.
Read original at Dominican Today.
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