The Ministry of Public Works and Communications has announced that several stretches of Santo Domingo’s main avenues will be closed today, Thursday 19 and tomorrow, Friday 20 February 2015. Parts of Lope de Vega, Kennedy and Tiradentes avenues will be closed from midnight until 6am. According to El Nuevo Diario, the ministry reported the closures through its Twitter account: @MPOCRD. No other information was forthcoming.