Dominican Today (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
Santo Domingo.- The ruling party’s most influential figure after president Leonel Fernandez on Sunday affirmed that France, the United States and Canada have plans to unify Hispaniola island (Dominican Republic, Haiti), project he affirms they’ve bee working on for decades.
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Jeff Passan covers a few items in this piece for Yahoo Sports, headlined by 19-year-old Cuban pitcher Noel Arguelles. The young left-hander impressed a number of agents and representatives from various teams at a workout last month in the Dominican Republic, and the four teams most interested in signing Arguelles are the Athletics, Mariners, Rays, and (who but') the Yankees. Passan predicted that Argulles'...
Jill Stephens BLOG (Free subscription) | yesterday
Our trip to the Dominican Republic comes to an end. Yesterday morning Prospery returned to Haiti and after dinner in the evening we said goodbye to Sophie. The two of them had organised and led a superb programme which has left us all with lasting memories and much to ponder. Yesterday morning was given over to a review and debriefing with the seven of us and Sophie. Today we have time for buying a...
Dominican Today (Free subscription) | yesterday
SANTO DOMINGO.- The expedition headed by the renown treasure hunter Burt Webber to recover artifacts from the sunken Spanish ship “Solo Dios Gloria" has after almost one month begun to coax fine gold baubles and detailed silver items off the Atlantic Ocean floor, as the Hispaniola Venture salvage boat struggles to remain anchored in the season swells.
Dominican Today (Free subscription) | yesterday
Santo Domingo.- The United States Embassy’s Commercial attaché and the Governor of the Columbus Lighthouse inaugurated the exhibit by renown American photographer Edward Curtis, to mark Native American National Inheritance Month.
Dominican Today (Free subscription) | yesterday
Santo Domingo. - The Santo Domingo Bishop emeritus monsignor Francisco Jose Arnaiz urged thousands of teachers to bolster values in the Dominican educative system, since it molds part of the personality and heals and corrects the conduct of the human beings.
Dominican Today (Free subscription) | yesterday
SANTO DOMINGO.- The Economy and Planning Minister affirmed Tuesday that the 2010 congressional and municipal elections won’t be jeopardized for lack of funds, just one day after the Electoral Board (JCE) requested a budget of more than RD$7 billion.
Dominican Today (Free subscription) | yesterday
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Dominican Today (Free subscription) | yesterday
Santo Domingo.- A project by UNPHU University and the Venezuelan company Nova Oceanic Energy Systems is among the 26 winners of the Global Competition on Climate Adaptation, in the World Development Fair 2009, in which 1,700 worldwide proposals competed.
Dominican Today (Free subscription) | yesterday
The year 2009 is definitely Presidential year; Barack Obama is inaugurated as the 44th, and first African American President of the United States, Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir is appointed as the new Prime Minister of Iceland, becoming the world's first openly lesbian head of government. Morgan Tsvangirai is sworn in as the new Prime Minister of Zimbabwe following the power-sharing deal...
Dominican Today (Free subscription) | yesterday
Santo Domingo. - The Dominican Electrical Industry Association (ADIE) and the National Energy Commission (CNE) met Monday to evaluate National Energetic Plan (PEN), which would include such key points as the optimization of the sector’s current structure, the topic of hydrocarbons and the alternate sources of energy needed to diversify the energetic matrix.
Dominican Today (Free subscription) | yesterday
Santo Domingo.- The New York Times today reports on the challenges to develop the area of Miches, in Dominican Republic’s northeast, where the Cisneros Group recently announced an initial investment topping US$2.0 billion in a project called Tropicalia.
Dominican Today (Free subscription) | yesterday
SANTO DOMINGO. - The Immigration Agency yesterday announced the repatriation of the 112 undocumented Haitians arrested Sunday for burning trees within the Los Haitises National Park.
Dominican Today (Free subscription) | yesterday
Santo Domingo.- El Dominican Civil Aviation Institute (IDAC) ordered the immediate suspension of the company Swfai S.A.’s assembly line, aircraft repair and/or reconstruction operations in the free zone industrial Hainamosa, for alleged technical irregularities in violation of Civil Aviation Law 491-06.
Dominican Today (Free subscription) | yesterday
Santo Domingo. - The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) in its most recent publication “World state of childhood” states that Dominican Republic has obtained “considerable progress” in topics related to the childhood in the last 20 years.
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