2024 – Page 185

The Chamber of Deputies called off sessions this week after Alfredo Pacheco, the president of the Chamber of Deputies in the evening announced on Tuesday, 2 April 2024 the tragic death of his 34-year old son, Luis Alfredo Pacheco Rojas (El Pikante or Spicy) in Houston, Texas, USA at 8:20pm on Monday, 1 April. News …

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19-year old Jose Manuel del Castillo Vanderlinde, son of the senator for Barahona Jose del Castillo, was reported dead on Tuesday, 2 April 2024. El Nacional reported that it had preliminary information the man would have committed suicide, jumping from a fourth-floor apartment. What is officially known is Del Castillo Vanderlinde was reported dead in …

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Rescue crews recovered the lifeless bodies of the three missing men from the El Bronx (Marapica) beach in Puerto Plata. The beach is known to be dangerous for swimming and is generally avoided and thus was not even included in the off-limit beach area for Easter Week. Civil Defense divers recovered on Tuesday, 2 April …

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Dominican Ronel Blanco was training in the morning and working at a car wash in the afternoon, when he was given the chance at 22 years old to play in Major League Baseball. He was recruited by a scout who was at his training field, Quico Peña, watching legendary pitcher Julio Rodriguez. Now, two years …

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President Luis Abinader announced during the Monday press meeting on 1 April 2024, government plans to expand the San Cristobal-Baní Sanchez highway to double its size, or to four lanes in each direction. The expansion would be from Baní to the entrance to the San Jose de Ocoa intersection, and in the future all the …

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Of the deaths over the Easter Week 2024 Operation, 24 were due to traffic accidents, of which 19 were caused by motorcycle drivers. Juan Manuel Méndez, director of the Center for Emergency Operations (COE), explained in a press conference on 1 April 2024, that 24 deaths were due to traffic accidents. 19 of these traffic …

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For years now, the United Nations and international experts have been alerting the next World War will be about water. Now, the Dominican Republic is dealing with the serious task of mitigating the damages that come from being the neighbor to Haiti, the social, cultural and economic basket case of the Americas. The Dominican government …

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The Bishop of La Altagracia, Jesús Castro Marte declared that the United Nations Organization must establish advocacy spaces for services to Haitians in their territory. Castro Marte is the Roman Catholic Church priest in charge of the Higuey municipality that encompasses hundreds of thousands of Haitians working in Punta Cana. “We have many countries in …

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Vehicles imported from the United States or from European Union countries have a tax advantage in the Dominican Republic. The DR has signed free tax entry agreements for US or European Union country vehicles. This places the vehicles from these countries in a price advantage against Korean, Chinese or Japanese vehicles. To compensate for not …

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The Economic and Social Council of Santo Domingo (CODESSD) announces it will be holding the vice presidential debate on 10 April 2024 and the presidential debate on 15 April 2024. The president of Codessd says all candidates will be participating in the televised and streamed debates. The CODESSD presidential and vice presidential debates compare to …

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