2024 – Page 23

Adriano Espaillat (Democrat-NY) will head the Hispanic Caucus in the 119th Congress that is scheduled to reconvene on 3 January 2025. On the agenda of the caucus will be immigration issues and protection of immigrants. Espaillat was born in Santiago de los Caballeros in 1954 but has spent the vast majority of his life in …

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Authorities have launched an investigation into how two women managed to smuggle more than US$2 million in cash out of the Dominican Republic, concealed in a suitcase aboard a commercial flight from Las Américas International Airport to Ecuador, with a stopover in Panama. The women were able to evade controls at the Santo Domingo and …

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State prosecutors have charged a Haitian who would have assaulted medics at the Dario Contreras Trauma Hospital on Sunday, 17 November 2024. The video with the assault on the medics showing the Haitian with a knife in hand circulated on social media causing much outrage. Many here complain the massive demand for free medical services …

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Prosecutors in the San Pedro de Macorís judicial district have filed a request for preventive custody against public school teacher Fernando Altagracia Peña Eusebio, who is accused of raping a 13-year-old female student. The request was filed in the Permanent Attention Services Court of San Pedro de Macorís, with the hearing scheduled for next Monday, …

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Most Dominicans think celebrating Thanksgiving is an exclusively American thing to do. Now, it seems there is a Dominican law that provides for the get-togethers. Over the weekend, Supreme Court of Justice former president Jorge Subero Isa posted on X that back in 1962, the transitional Dominican government council had enacted under President Rafael Bonelly …

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Outfielder Rico Carty, a member of the Atlanta Braves Hall of Fame and one of the first Dominican-born players to play in Major League Baseball, has died. He was 85. At a high point in his career in 1970, he was the National League batting champion with .366 average. For Dominican baseball players, he was …

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Team Canada led most of the game and defeated Team Dominican Republic in the second window of the AmeriCup basketball qualifier, played this time in Saskatoon, Canada. Canada defeated the DR 88-71 in Group C of the 2025 AmeriCup Qualifiers. FIBA reports that midway through the first quarter the Dominican team took a 16-15 lead, …

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Two teams form the Dominican Football League will vie for very important spots in the Caribbean Cup championship series this week. Moca FC, will face off against Real Hope FA, from Ouanaminthe, Haiti, in two matches that will determine the third place in the championship standings. The first match will be played in the Cibao …

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Vietnam Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on the first day of his 19-21 November visit to the Dominican Republic proposed the two sides negotiate a free trade agreement, an investment protection agreement, as well as agreements on cultural, educational, and training cooperation, and another on ordinary visa exemption. PM Chinh visited with his wife, Le …

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Vice President Raquel Peña led the commemoration of the 25th anniversary of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, highlighting significant progress and remaining challenges in preventing, addressing, and eradicating this pervasive issue. The day was named in honor of the Mirabal sisters, murdered during the Trujillo regime. As shared in a …

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