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Danilo Feliz Torres, the husband of British ex-pat Lindsay Firth, and two of his sons, have been formally charged with the murder. Prosecutors are asking for 25-30 years in jail and no possible parole. Feliz Torres is the lead suspect in the murder of Firth.
On 16 December 2019, El Caribe newspaper gives details on Danilo Féliz Torres. It explains he had run in the PLD primaries for mayor in the municipality of Guayacanes in the province of San Pedro de Macorís in 2010. At the time, the political party disavowed his win.
El Caribe reports that in March 2010, the Contentious Chamber of the Central Electoral Board (JCE) accepted an appeal filed by Féliz Torres, candidate for mayor of the Dominican Liberation Party (PLD) for the municipality of Guayacanes. Then through resolution No.53-2010, the court ordered the PLD to recognize the rights acquired by Danilo Féliz Torres, as he received most votes in the referred municipality and should enjoy the full exercise of his civil and political rights.
But during the public hearing held on 9 March 2010, the PLD political delegate, César Pina Toribio, gave reasons for revoking the win on grounds that he had evidence that Feliz was blacklisted as part of then fugitive drug trafficker José Figueroa Agosto’s network.
El Caribe says the version was confirmed by Colonel José Armando Brito Melo, police commander in the province of Santiago Rodríguez, where the crime occurred. Colonel Brito Melo had said that four people, including two children of Feliz Torres and another man who allegedly participated in the murder, would be sent to justice for the murder of the woman.
The 64-year-old British woman’s body was found buried 200 meters from her home in the community of Cacique in the municipality of Monción, in the province of Santiago Rodríguez. The English writer and lawyer had been married to 50-year old Dominican Danilo Féliz Torres for 15 years. The British woman told about her love and struggles in the Dominican Republic in two fiction novels, “What About Your Saucepans? And “Life After My Saucepans?” for sale on Amazon.
The Tax Agency has extended to 31 December 2019 the selling of vehicular circulation permits at 611 branches of 31 financial entities nationwide. The DGII says that as of 2 January, DIGESETT officers have been instructed to tow vehicles that do not present the stickers on their front windows. Those not getting their sticker in time will need to pay a RD$2,000 fine.
At the first deadline for the renewal, 1,159,099 units of vehicles had already renewed their tag of a fleet of 1,374,321 units, for 84.3%. There were 215,222 taxpayers that needed to get the sticker known as the “marbete.”
The amount collected so far was RD$1.9 billion. It is estimated that RD$2.25 billion will be eventually collected.
The public voted 13-year old Francisco Campusano, best known as “Babyrotty” winner of the Dominicana’s Got Talent reality show on Wednesday, 18 December 2019. He won RD$3 million cash prize and a Nissan SUV. He sang “El Triste,” by the late Jose Jose, and dedicated his final performance to his late grandmother.
He told Diario Libre that with the cash award, he would like to build a house for his grandfather, one for his parents and get his ID and put aside RD$1 million for his studies and other things. He lives in Manoguayabo, Santo Domingo West. Babyrotty gets his name for his Pavarotti style singing. He received a golden buzzer from merengue singer Milly Quezada, when she participated as a guest juror in the reality.
The three finalists of the show and most voted were:
Babyrotty, Yucahú Band, a dance group from Puerto Plata, and singer Lorainne Garrido. The other seven finalists were singers
Evaristo Marte, Aura Estrella, Miguel Ángel Soul and Samira Tavárez. Also the dance groups Yucahú Band, Da Republik Jr., Royalty Dance Crew and Ballet Ópera.
The reality show organizers announced that auditions would soon begin for the second Dominicana’s Got Talent show in 2020.
On Wednesday, 11 December 2019, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) announced that the danceable music known as the “bachata” is an Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. Bachata is the second Dominican musical genre to be listed. Merengue was first in 2016.
Bachata emerged from the fusion of bolero with other Afro-Antillean rhythms such as Cuban son, chachachá and merengue. It has four tempos per beat. Usually one of the musicians is the lead singer. The couple’s dance is characterized by a sensual hip movement and simple eight-step structure.
For its performance, Bachata traditionally requires a small group of musicians, who use one or two guitars as lead instruments (electric guitars are used nowadays), and percussion composed of bongos, maracas and a guiro accompanied by a bass.
As a general rule, bachata lyrics express deep and visceral feelings of love, passion and nostalgia. The word ‘bachata’ is supposed to be of African origin and was not originally used to designate a specific musical genre, but rather a lively gathering or party, UNESCO said in a statement. The UNESCO says that Dominicans see bachata as a vernacular cultural expression that is always present in Dominican community celebrations or social gatherings.
Among its best-known representatives are Tommy Figueroa, one of its pioneers, as well as Leonardo Paniagua, Juan Luis Guerra, Romeo Santos, Prince Royce and Vicente García.
Dominican ambassador to the Unesco, Jose Antonio Rodríguez told Listin Diario that while the request to include the merengue took 12 years, the bid for the bachata was expedited in two years. The motion was approved with the favorable vote of 24 countries present for the meeting of the 14th Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage in Bogotá, Colombia.
“The most beautiful thing about all this is that everyone participated, artists, cultural organizations of the country, the government, which was the one that presented the interest. I think that seldom so many efforts have come together to achieve an objective like this. It is usually but one sector. Still, here I can give you faith and testimony that everyone was involved, from the forerunners of the rhythm to those who now have the responsibility to maintain it,” Rodríguez said.
He highlighted that contemporary artist Vicente García had been one of the people who promoted most the recognition, accompanying him to the meeting in Bogotá, Colombia. Vicente García performed one of his bachatas for the list-deciding UNESCO members.
InterEnergy Group announced the forming of a joint venture with Blink Charging Co. to develop electric vehicle charging station products in the east of the country.
“We are very excited to enter the electric mobility market. We see the roll-out of a network of EV charging stations as a key part of our mission to continue to bring reliable and cost-effective energy alternatives to our region”, said Gonzalez Bunster.
InterEnergy is the exclusive supplier of electricity to the fast-growing tourism resort area of Punta Cana-Bavaro, covering over 50,000 hotel rooms and over 40,000 low-tension clients.
“This joint venture to bring EV charging infrastructure to the Caribbean and Latin America will make it possible for these countries to begin importing EVs and join the movement from fossil-fuel driven economies to sustainable green ones,” stated Blink’s founder and executive chairman Michael D. Farkas. He continued: “The Caribbean and Latin America are facing a classic chicken and egg scenario — the lack of EV charging infrastructure is stopping the importation and sale of EVs and vice versa. Our JV intends to solve the puzzle. Our JV will invest in developing, deploying, managing, and maintaining the charging infrastructure and will begin to expand the availability of charging ports in the Caribbean and Latin America so that the citizens and guests of those countries can enjoy the benefits of driving EVs.”
