2024 – Page 175

The First Collegiate Court of the National District lifted the house arrest on the former deputy security chief of former President Danilo Medina, Air Force General Julio Camilo de los Santos Viola and Police Colonel Rafael Núñez de Aza, two of the main defendants in the Operation Coral and Coral 5G corruption cases. House arrest …

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The defense of former Attorney General Jean Alain Rodríguez Sanchez asked Judge Amauri Martinez of the Third Investigative Court of the National District to trash the accusation against his client during the second defense hearing on 16 April 2024. The defense argues that the accusatory body has committed 17 violations of the Constitution against his …

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Constanza community members and environmentally-aware persons are calling for justice after environmental defender, 39-year old Francisco Ortiz Baez was murdered. He had denounced the indiscriminate extraction of materials for the construction from a Tireo, Constanza river in La Vega province. Olmedo León, executive director of the Ecological Society of Cibao (Soeci), said the murder was …

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President Luis Abinader used the first half of the weekly La Semanal press meet to explain the effort to launch the Dominican Republic as a hub for manufacturing of semiconductors and microelectronics to benefit young people in the Dominican Republic. President Luis Abinader seeks to be reelected on 19 May 2024, and the majority vote …

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Former President Leonel Fernandez opened his weekly televised program, La Voz del Pueblo, calling it a dialogue with the press. During the first event on 15 April 2024, Fernandez emphasized the rises in prices of goods and services in the Dominican Republic. He mentioned that Gross Domestic Product grew only 2.4% in 2023. Fernandez, who …

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“President (Luis) Abinader would make a very serious mistake by leaving a law of that nature in his administration. He does not deserve an indelible stain like that,” said the president of the Dominican Newspaper Society (SDD), Persio Maldonado, in reference to Law 1-24 that creates the National Intelligence Agency (DNI). Interviewed on the television …

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President Luis Abinader insists his government will act in the case of denounced rape of 14-year old Haitian girl, reportedly raped by a Migration agent during an inspection operation in Veron, Bavaro in La Altagracia province. The Migration Agency has yet to name the agent suspect in the case of the inspector accused in the …

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Sergei Berezin/Paul Bertholz sat in the 15 April 2024 deportation hearing at the Supreme Court of Justice in the shorts and flip flops he was in when arrested in the Bayahibe beach town. European authorities have requested his deportation accusing him of being part of an alleged pyramid scheme that resulted in hundreds of thousands …

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The National Weather Office (Onamet) announced heavy rains in the capital city and 17 provinces in central and northeastern regions for Tuesday and Wednesday, 16-17 April 2024. On Monday, 15 April, the weather system already brought heavy rains in Santo Domingo and Samana. Gloria Ceballos, director of the Onamet, forecast the passing tropical wave will …

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Esmery Martinez on 15 April 2024 became the first Dominican woman to be drafted to the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA). The better news is that she was drafted to the WNBA by a team that has played in the last two league finals. Martinez heard her name called as the 17th overall pick (5th …

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