2024 – Page 172

Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjárto visited last week to strengthen diplomatic and cooperation ties between both countries. Foreign Minister Roberto Álvarez hosted his colleague, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Hungary, Péter Szijjárto. Szijjárto has been in the position since 2014. Szijjárto’s visit is the first in 40 years of bilateral diplomatic relations. The …

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The Second Dominican Republic-Jamaica Business Forum took place at the AC Hotel by Marriott Kingston in Kingston, Jamaica on 18 April 2024. Vice Minister of Bilateral Foreign Policy in the Ministry of Foreign Relations Dominican Republic Jose Julio Gomez and the president of the Chamber of Commerce of Jamaica in the Domiican Republic Juan Jose …

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The Dominican Association of Exporters (Adoexpo) elected the members of its board of directors for the period 2024-2026. Karel Castillo, from the company Agroindustria Ocoeña, a leading avocado exporter, was chosen the chair of the Dominican Republic’s main export organization. Speaking during ordinary assembly, Castillo highlighted the country could double its exports. In addition to …

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Minister of Agriculture Limber Cruz Lopez has put forth suggestions to improve agricultural production in neighboring Haiti. These suggestions have received solid support from the InterAmerican Institute for Agricultural Cooperation (IICA). Obviously, the farming situation in Haiti can only be described as chaotic at best, and is horribly deficient in providing food for the population. …

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The Spanish Minister of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration, Elma Saiz, announced Spain is allocating EUR890,000 to assist Dominican, Colombian and Ecuador migrants in Spain. She made the announcement when speaking at the Spring meetings of the World Bank to launch a ‘Global Skills Alliance’ between Spain and Latin America that is held in Washington, …

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The Dr. Ney Arias Lora Traumatological University Teaching Hospital filed an appeal for review before the Constitutional Court regarding Sentence SCJ-TS-24-0126 issued by the Supreme Court of Justice. The ruling requires the Ministry of Hacienda to pay on behalf of the hospital RD$10 million after losing a lawsuit for a case that occurred in 2016, …

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Purchasing real estate in the Dominican Republic can be very tedious, bureaucratic, and even risky. The newspapers are full of stories of people getting ripped-off by scoundrels selling things that are not theirs to sell or that, in some cases, do not even exist. For this reason, the Association of Housing Builders and Promotors (Acoprovi) …

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President Luis Abinader signed three presidential decrees that authorized the extradition of three Dominicans who were wanted on different charges in the United States and in France. One of the charges is from Puerto Rico where the person was charged with lewd acts and incest in 2022. Another person was charged with drug trafficking and …

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Agents from the Specialized Corps for Border Security (Cesfront), working with Migration Agency authorities, discovered six dozen undocumented Haitian migrants in a hotel in the border town of Elias Piña. According to reports, the persons were lodged at the Eureka Hotel, where human traffickers prepare them for insertion into Dominican cities. The Cesfront agents turned …

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The preventive custody hearing against an Air Force recruit accused of raping a Haitian minor was postponed for Friday, 26 April 2024 in La Altagracia. The soldier is identified as Paulino de la Cruz, and he was one of 15 soldiers who accompanied immigration inspectors searching for undocumented immigrants in the community of Verón, where …

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