Santo Domingo’s Olympic Stadium will be the stage for more than 35 musical stars who will perform on Sunday, 31 January in a fund-raiser for Haiti sponsored by the Presidente beer brewery and Omnimedia.

The show, that will start at 3pm, will include Fernando Villalona, Eddy Herrera, Sergio Vargas, Omega, Rubby Perez, El Jeffrey, Hector Acosta “El Torito”, Los Rosario, Tono Rosario, Johnny Ventura, Raymond Pozo, Miguel Cespedes, El Prodigio, Michell, Sexappeal, Joe Veras, Yoskar Sarante, Kinito Mendez, Rafely, Miriam Cruz, Pavel Nunez, Jandy Ventura, Cherito, El Chaval, Vakero, Audrey Campos and Frank Ceara.

Other who will sing or perform for Haiti are Manuel Jimenez, Ruina Nueva, Tito Swing, Pochy Familia, Juliana, Krispy, Vladimir Dotel, Rita Indiana, Wason Brazoban, Martha Heredia, Issa Gadala, Chichi Peralta, Pena Suazo, Cristal Marie, Maryury Reyna, Ramon Orlando, Diomedes, Monchy Capricho, Edward El Big Papi, Luis Miguel del Amargue, Alexandra, Marcel, Pakole, Claudia Sierra, The Boss and Alexis.

After striking out 10 batters with no walks over five scoreless innings in the Dominican Winter League championship series on Thursday, Minnesota pitcher Francisco Liriano´s performance gives him some hope he’ll return to his pre-Tommy John or even late 2008 form.

He had a 1.20 ERA with a 13:4 K:BB ratio in 15 innings in three starts in postseason play. Liriano may have been the biggest disappointment in fantasy baseball last season as he struggled with a 5.80 ERA. He’ll battle Brian Duensing and Glen Perkins for the fifth starter job this spring.

This year’s Caribbean Series starts with the Puerto Rico team squaring off against the Dominican Republic in a matinee followed by the opening ceremony and matchup between Venezuela and Mexico on Tuesday night.

Venezuela and the Dominican Republic will meet on Feb. 4, in the third game of the round-robin for each team, and it’s going to be a catfight. Venezuela, the reigning Caribbean Series champion, rolled through the 2009 tournament in Mexicali, Mexico, with a 5-1 record.

Last year’s team from the Dominican Republic finished in the bottom half of the standings along with Puerto Rico with a 2-4 record. Mexico finished the tourney

Dominican musician Chichi Peralta will perform on 6 February at 8pm at the Palacio de los Deportes, and on 13 February at 8pm at the Gran Arena del Cibao, in Santiago.

Peralta will be performing live the songs from his latest album “De aquel lao’ del rio” on sale at the Nacional supermarkets.

Musician Kumiko Yoshijara, El Prodigio and musicians of the National Symphony Orchestra will be on stage wih Dominican singer

Pedro Martínez on Saturday inaugurated a joint project with the office of Major League Baseball in the Dominican Republic to educate young prospects in the country.

Martinez said he wants to help young players who are struggling to reach the greatest baseball know their rights and duties. “I want to give something back to the community and that something is one thing I always have time to give, that is education,” he told the press.

Dominican Republic is the largest producer of foreign players in the majors, but also has the highest number of positive drug tests in the lower circuits. Martinez, who pitched last season with the Phillies, believes that more needs to be done to combat the use of banned substances.

The three-time Cy Young Award winner gave a talk to nearly 100 children in the Quisqueya stadium in Santo Domingo.

The Interior and Police Ministry announced it’ll curtail the hours during which colmadones (bodegas) may sell alcohol to 11 p.m. weekdays and 12 midnight weekends. It said it reduced them 1 and 2 hours because those businesses can currently sell alcohol until 12 midnight weekdays and until 2 a.m. Fridays and Saturdays.

Democratic Security Plan (PSD) coordinator Yadira Peña said not yet a date application for this measure has be determined, but has assumed that it because the colmadones are where the highest number of crimes occur, according to a 2009 Interior and Police study.

She said crimes in those businesses occur mostly from 6 p.m. to 5 in the morning on weekdays.