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Friday 3rd September, 2010

    • Johnny Cueto leaves Cincinnati Reds to attend to family emergency

    General Sources

    St. Louis Cardinals since he played a principal role in their fracas last month, attending to what the team called a family emergency in the Dominican Republic.Manager Dusty Baker thought Cueto, who l...

    • Cueto takes time off

    General Sources

    Johnny Cueto missed the team's first series against the Cardinals since he played a principal role in their fracas last month, attending to what the team called a family emergency in the Dominican Rep...

    • BBC Caribbean News in Brief

    BBC Caribbean

    With the Caribbean still reeling from the effects of the global financial crisis, more attention is being placed on the development of small and medium enterprises.

  • Local Dental Mission Team will travel to the Dominican Republic

    General Sources

    From left: Joannie McNulty, Renee Taylor, Jan Talbot, Rev. Dick and Mary Kay Randall are all part of the dental team that will be going to the Dominican Republic in early October. Also traveling with ...

  • Phillies DSL pitcher Bacil suspended

    General Sources

    A Phillies Dominican Summer League pitcher became the 81st Minor Leaguer suspended this year. Alvaro Bacil, a 19-year-old right-hander, received a 50-game suspension Friday after testing positive for...

  • Rangel Should Leave Office, Manhattan Voters Tell Poll

    General Sources

    Charles B. Rangel should either resign or drop his bid for re-election in light of the ethics charges against him, according to a New York Times poll.

  • Vicente to face Avila

    General Sources

    Up and coming featherweight Jenifel Vicente (17-0-2, 11 KOs), popular for his non-stop punching style, will be crossing swords with grizzled, dynamite-fisted veteran Hector Julio Avila (47-4, 42 KOs) ...

  • Canadian medical officials for New Delhi aware of dengue fever threat

    General Sources

    The pesky mosquito could be Canada's biggest adversary at next month's Commonwealth Games. A month from the opening of India's largest multi-sports event, Games organizers are dealing with one of the...

  • Sobeida Felix says her civil rights are violated in prison

    Dominican Today

    Santo Domingo.- The inmate Sobeida Felix affirmed Friday that the Najayo prison authorities have limited her civil rights by curtailing her freedom of movement within the jail. Felix, the main defend...

  • Dominican Immigration announces stricter passenger checks

    Dominican Today

    Santo Domingo.- Immigration director Sigfrido Pared today Friday announced the implementation of a system to digitally obtain fingerprints for the identification of passengers with their photo and pre...

  • Gasoline, diesel will cost more starting Saturday

    Dominican Today

    SANTO DOMINGO. - The Industry and Commerce Ministry posted the fuel prices in effect from September 4 to 10, when premium gasoline will cost RD$160.60 per gallon, a jump of RD$1.40, and regular gasoli...

  • Piano prodigy to play at SIUE

    General Sources

    Every four years since 1962, the Van Cliburn Foundation has hosted the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in search of the world’s best virtuosic pianists.The latest prodigy to emerge f...

  • Caribbean Tourism Industry Stakeholders to Participate in OAS Corporate Social Responsibility Workshop

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    Tourism industry stakeholders from Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Dominica, Guyana, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Suriname and Trinidad and Tobago will participate in a two-...

  • Cisneros Group enters the Dominican TV market

    Dominican Today

    Santo Domingo.- The Cisneros Organization, through her global entertainment company Venevisión Continental, presented its new international TV channel project in the country ‘Venevisión +Plus Domi...

  • The View from Europe

    Dominican Today

    As this is being written six Caribbean tourism ministers are preparing to travel to London. There they will meet with the British Government, the region’s travel industry and aviation partners, and ...

  • Top Deputy willing to give up tax free auto perk, partially

    Dominican Today

    Santo Domingo.- Chamber of Deputies president Abel Martinez said on Friday that he’s in favor of reducing the tax exemptions provided for the lawmakers to import one vehicle every two years free of ...

  • Juan Luis Guerra to headline MTV concert in Spain

    Dominican Today

    San Fernando, Spain. - The Dominican music icon Juan Luis Guerra, accompanied by his group 440, will headline the macro-concert in October organized by the MTV television network. The event will mark...

  • NY bound mule straps drugs to his leg, gets nabbed

    Dominican Today

    SANTO DOMIGO. – The Antinarcotics Agency (DNCD) arrested a man who was about to board a flight at Las Americas International Airport to New York Thursday night, with his legs wrapped with bags of co...

  • USAID helps poor towns craft precious wood, reforest

    Dominican Today

    BAYAGUANA, Dominican Republic.- The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) donated RD$2.5 million to support 383 agro-forestry producers in the zones of Villa Altagracia, San Crist...

  • Caribbean braced for more storms

    BBC Caribbean

    "As this La Nina continues to build, we should see above-normal numbers of (September) and (October) storms," Matt Rogers, president and meteorologist with Commodity Weather Group in Bethesda, Maryla...

  • Klitschko brothers highlight ESPN's 5-fight lineup for fall

    General Sources

    ESPN2's "Friday Night Fights" season came to an end last week, but there will be more live boxing on various ESPN platforms in the fall until the series returns in January.ESPN announced on Thursday a...

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