2024 – Page 161

The Ministry of Public Works has finally responded to the quest of El Caribe reporters for an update on the Km 9 city connector roadworks. Herrera says the roadworks are 70 to 80% finished. He set a completion date of August 2024. The connector would decongest traffic at Santo Domingo’s north exit/entrance. The works call …

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The Listin Diario got the three main contenders for the Presidency in the Dominican Republic to sign on to a pact on 6 May 2024 to ensure the implementation of Animal Protection Law 248-12. The law has been in effect for 12 years with governments of the ruling parties Modern Revolutionary Party nor Dominican Liberation …

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The 26th Santo Domingo International Book Fair (FILSD 2024) will be held from 7 to 17 November 7 2024 on the grounds of the Plaza de la Cultura Juan Pablo Duarte in Santo Domingo. The Ministry of Culture says that in upcoming weeks it will announce the name of the writer to whom the fair …

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Francelys María Furcal Rodríguez, the Dominican woman accused of killing her boss, Chinese merchant Chen Zongxin on 21 April 2022 after a heated argument at the Z&C Hardware Store in the National District, is back in the Dominican Republic. She now awaits her indictment in the Ciudad Nueva Courthouse jail. She had fled abroad to …

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For those living in Santo Domingo, all throughout the morning and for the first half of the afternoon, it was blue sunny skies on Monday, 6 May 2024. In the late afternoon and evening, though, the rains fell hard, causing flooding in some areas of the capital city. Hoy reports that the waters turned the …

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Weather forecaster Jean Suriel says that the days of gorgeous blue skies will soon be impacted by the Sahara dust blowing our way from Africa. The Caribbean region will be impacted from now until September, with a peak in Sahara dust usually from June to August. The dust causes hazy skies and worsens people’s allergies. …

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The Greenberg poll on the presidential election in the Dominican Republic on 19 May 2024 reveals that President Luis Abinader, running for the Modern Revolutionary Party (PRM) will comfortably win the election. Greenberg reports of those polled 58% will vote for Abinader. Former three-term President Leonel Fernandez of the People’s Force (Fuerza del Pueblo) trails …

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Former three-term President Leonel Fernandez offers his experience in government and his privileged intellect to the population again. He wants to do better and resolve key problems left pending from his being President from 1996-2000, 2004-2008 and 2008-2012. Read more in Spanish:Listin Diario Listin Diario El Dia El Dia 6 May 2024

With but two weeks to go for the Presidential and Congressional election on 19 May 2024, the Fuerza del Pueblo political party seems to not have been able to get its act together and comply with legal statutes for registering candidates. One of the affected by recent decisions of the Fuerza del Pueblo leadership, Andy …

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83-year old former President Hipólito Mejía reported suffering a fall that caused a fracture in his right forearm. The information was posted in his X and Instagram accounts with a photo where he is with members of his family, including his daughter, National District Mayor Carolina Mejía. “I feel fine, thank God. I had a …

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