2024 – Page 60

A contingent of 21 Dominicans are playing in the Major League Baseball Divisional Series, El Dia reports. The best-of-five series is played between Detroit Tigers and Cleveland Guardians, and Kansas City Royals and the New York Yankees in the American League. In the National League, San Diego faces the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Philadelphia …

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The Dominican Republic announced on Wednesday, 2 October 2024, the National Security and Defense Council met and determined actions including a ceiling of deporting around 10,000 undocumented persons each week to tackle the surge in illegal Haitian migration and the perceived overpopulation of undocumented migrants in Dominican communities. The increased migration is the result of …

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The Dominican Republic has issued a total of 1,354,187 visas to Haitian citizens at its consulates in Haiti over the past four government terms from 2009 to 2024, averaging more than 300,000 visas per four-year period, Diario Libre reports. According to data shared by the Ministry of Foreign Relations (Mirex), the breakdown of visas issued …

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The Dominican Banana Producers Association (Adobanano) has called for special measures to provide residency permits for 14,000 Haitian workers currently employed in the sector. Adobanano leaders Martín Peña and Gil Blas visited Listin Diario to explain that of their total work force of 22,000, some 14,000 are Haitians and 8,000 Dominicans. The hiring violates the …

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For years, Dominicans have been seeing how Haitian drivers are becoming everyday more common as moto-taxi drivers. Now, it seems, they are being hired to drive buses along the routes awarded to transport associations. Tony Marte, the secretary general of the National Confederation of Transportation (Conatra), has accused the National Federation of Transport New Option …

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Senate president Ricardo de los Santos, who also heads the National Assembly to Revise the Constitution, confirmed the Monday, 7 October 2024 gathering to begin the constitutional reform process. The majority of Congress is made up of the legislators representing the ruling Modern Revolutionary Party (PRM). The legislators approved the bill that declares the need …

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The Chamber of Deputies approved the second reading of the bill that seeks to protect and foster the breeding of the Ridgway’s Hawk, also known as Hispaniola Hawk or the Dominican Hawk. The Ridgway’s hawk (Buteo ridgwayi) is a bird of prey in the family Accipitridae endemic to the island of Hispaniola in the Caribbean. …

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The Ministry of Foreign Relations has advised Dominicans living in Lebanon to depart that country. Following a surge in Israeli attacks, the Dominican Embassy in Turkey, that oversees Lebanon, reports around 150 Dominicans live in the impacted region. The Dominican Republic has advised its citizens in Lebanon to depart the country while commercial flight options …

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The Customs Agency says new body scanners installed as part of a security-enhancing pilot program at Las Americas International Airport uncovered the contraband of 74 high-end smartphones. The pilot program is being implemented at Las Américas, Punta Cana, Cibao, and Puerto Plata international airports. Of the seized devices, 32 were found in carry-on luggage, while …

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A five-vehicle accident resulted in 16 persons being injured, two hospitalized, and several vehicles severely damaged. A freight trucker, a bus and several vehicles collided in the sector El Setenta y Siete, of Monseñor Nouel (Bonao). Diario Libre reported that two ambulances, a Police unit, a Ground Transport Agency (Digesett) unit, a firefighter unit from …

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