2024 – Page 12

President Luis Abinader met with The Amir His Highness Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani for an official session of talks at the Amiri Diwan in Qatar on 9 December 2024, the Peninsula Qatar reported. This is the first time that a Dominican President is received in Qatar by the head of state of Qatar. …

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On Friday, 6 December 2024, the Dominican Senate approved the largest budget in the 180-year history of the Dominican Republic: RD$1,681,728,000,000 (RD$1.681 trillion). The budget was declared urgent business and was passed by a vote of 25-2 after two consecutive readings. The legislation now goes to the President for his signature and enactment. The budget …

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The National Institute for Transportation and Traffic (Intrant) is ordering freight trucks, even those with Restricted Areas Permits (ZAR), to stay off the roads during certain times over Christmas and New Year peak holidays. The Intrant Resolution 013-2024 states that starting on 23 December 2024 at 6am and lasting until 5am on 26 December 2024, …

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The Constitutional Court, the nation’s highest court, has stricken Law 1-24 that created the National Intelligence Agency. The case was brought before the high court by the People Force (FP) political party, the Dominican Revolutionary Party (PRD), and the Dominican Liberations Party (PLD), citing unconstitutional aspects of the law. In decision TC/0767/24, the high court …

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The Chamber of Deputies has modified legislation concerning the exploration, exploitation, and earnings from oil discovered in the Dominican Republic. For years, the dream has been to find oil on the island of Hispaniola, but little has happened. This new legal framework will tend to provide incentives for foreign companies to come into the Dominican …

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Siemens Financial Services (SFS) announced its funding of the Pecasa project, a large wind farm, a first for the company in the Caribbean region. The Pecasa wind plant located in Montecristi, in Dominican Republic, is in operation since May 2019. With its 25 wind turbines of 2 MW each, the plant has a total of …

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The locally-based Chinese-owned manufacturing plant, Kingtom Aluminio SRL is banned from exporting to the United States now that the US Customs and Border Protection has issued a Forced Labor Finding based on information that reasonably indicates the use of forced labor in violation of 19 U.S.C. § 1307 in the production of the merchandise. Effective …

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In a year in which the authorities from the National Drug Control Agency (DNCD), the Dominican Customs Agency (DGA), intelligence units of the Armed Forces, and special prosecutors from the Justice Department have come together to garner over 65,000 kilograms of illegal drugs, late last week there was a blockbuster hit on drug trafficking. The …

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The National Archives (AGN) has launched the book “Constanza Images 1909-2000,” authored by Constancio Cassá and Teruki Waki. Concurrently, the AGN inaugurated a photographic exhibition on the perimeter fence of the Nuestra Señora de las Mercedes parish in Constanza city. The exhibition, open to the public for a month, presents a valuable historical collection of …

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A young man who came out of the National Scholastic Games in Barahona in 2023, just won the chess crown and gold medal at the II Central American and Caribbean Scholastic Chess Championship in Honduras 2024. Eleven-year-old Angel Sebastien Lara Santos, brought home the gold in the Under-11 category, defeating 17 other competitors. The head …

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