Archive for the ‘Dominican Republic’ Category
Dead Prez’s Can’t Vote in DR Anymore
2:06 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Dominican Republic · Comments Off
30 May 2007
What do Juan Bosch and Joaquin Balaguer have in common? If you answered that they were both presidents of the Dominican Republic and died in 2002 you’d be partially correct. Up until recently they were also eligible voters. How recently? Up until last week. Their names along with thousands of other Dominicans who are deceased, have emigrated or are otherwise ineligible to vote in next year’s elections were purged from the official record.
Via / CBS
A Little NYC in DR
12:05 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Dominican Republic · Comments Off
29 May 2007
There are about 600,000 Dominicans living in NYC and Dominican President Leonel Fernandez used to be one of them. Perhaps its nostalgia for times past that have led Fernandez to build a NYC style subway system in Santo Domingo. But not everyone is as excited about this mass transit option especially when they look at the bill. Originally the train was set to cost $464 million. That figure is up to 710 million, more than 2 percent of the Dominican Republic’s gross domestic product and expected to rise. So do Dominicans need a subway or would that money be better spent say on infrastructure or poverty?
Only time will tell.
Via / CBS
Shakira finally getting hitched?
7:23 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Celebrities|Chismes|Dominican Republic|Latin America · 1 Comment
16 May 2007
We’ve been listening to rumors that Shakira is going to wed her long-time boyfriend, Antonio de la Rua for years now. We’re skeptical that this is actually going to happen, but are just gonna put it out there for you. Las malas lenguas say that Shaki is going to go through with it, and in the D.R.:
Dominican Republic is again under the international spotlight after a Latin Celebrities radio program reported yesterday that the singer Shakira and her fiancé Antonio de la Rúa are planning to wed in this country next September.The newspaper El Dia, quoting the website Labotana, says that the famous singer’s wedding will be in her mansion located in the resort Punta Cana, in Dominican east coast. That same program didn’t reveal the date of the wedding, but several indications point to that month.
And according to Spain’s 20 Minutos, Shakira’s mother-in-law-to-be, Inés Pertiné, has already hired designer María Pryor to make Shaki’s wedding dress.
Via / Dominican Today and 20 Minutos
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