2024 – Page 169

The Fine Arts Film Festival Made in the DR is back at the Novocentro cinema. In its fourth year, the event is sponsored by Altice Dominicana. This year the showings are from 2 to 8 May 2024 at the Santo Domingo cinema on Av. Lope de Vega. Advance tickets can be purchased online or at …

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158 mayors nationwide will be sworn in to start their four-year terms on Wednesday, 24 April 2024 nationwide. In the 18 February 2024 municipal election, the ruling Modern Revolutionary Party (PRM) won 121 mayoralties, the Dominican Liberation Party (PLD) won 16, the People’s Force (FP) six and the Dominican Revolutionary Party (PRD) one. The mayors-to-be …

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President Luis Abinader will be the first sitting President to participate in a debate with opposition candidates on the evening of Wednesday, 24 April 2024. President Luis Abinader seeks to be reelected. For more than 30 years, the National Young Entrepreneurs Association (Anje) had sought to organize the debate. One of the participants, Leonel Fernandez …

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The Vice President candidates have aired their views for the National Association of Young Entrepreneurs (Anje) debate. The debate on 23 April 2024 was marked with Vice President Raquel Peña questioning the country that the opposition candidates described and the source of statistics. Vice President Raquel Peña gave insights into what the government is doing …

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The Grupo Corripio, the largest media association in the country, announces affiliate media are making available free air time and coverage for the presidential candidates in the Dominican Republic. The presidential election is set for Sunday, 19 May 2024. The schedule for presentations is:30 April 2024: President Luis Abinader (Partido Revolucionario Moderno – PRM)1 May …

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Traffic for those circulating in access roads to the Ministry of Education on Av. Maximo Gomez was practically paralyzed. Eduardo Hidalgo, the president of the ADP, the ever-powerful public school teacher union, had called for public school teachers to not go to work and instead head to the Ministry of Education to demand a 20% …

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The Ministry of Foreign Relations reports the visit of 10 ambassadors from different countries, some of them members of the UN Security Council who are officially are visiting to learn about the progress and development of the Dominican Republic in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The diplomats include the current president …

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LeNouvelliste of Haiti has reported on the landing of a US army airplane in Port-au-Prince. Le Nouvelliste reported that a US Southcom AC-130 landed on Tuesday, 23 April 2024 at Toussaint Louverture International Airport in Port-au-Prince. The airport had been closed to air traffic after gangs fired at an airplane. The arrival of the US …

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Somos Pueblo, a leading muckraking news organization, reports on what would be a conflict of interest in the contracting of mass transport systems for Santiago and Santo Domingo. Ricardo Ripoll of Somos Pueblo defined as a major conflict of interest the contracting by the state involving engineer Jhael Isa Tavarez. He says Isa Tavarez is …

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The Dominican Republic has expressed a strong interest in fostering robust cooperation with the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the Emirates News Agency (WAM) reported on 22 April 2024 from Abu Dhabi. The stronger ties would be to combat climate change through clean energy initiatives. Two senior officials from the Dominican Republic highlighted the potential for …

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