2024 – Page 7

Despite some requests to break tradition and not extend the hours allowed for the sale of alcoholic beverages over the holidays that cover Christmas and New Year’s, Minister of the Interior and Police, Faride Raful, issued a press release that outlined the permitted hours for the sale of alcohol. The relaxation of drinking hours officially …

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Two weeks ago, President Luis Abinader declared that one of the objectives of his second term is to wipe out hunger in the Dominican Republic. Many in the press and on local television scoffed at the idea, but last Friday, 13 December 2024, Rodrigo Castañeda, who represents the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) …

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New York Congressman Adriano Espaillat (NY-13) announces 11 February 2025 is the date for the 7th Annual Dominicans on the Hill event held at the US Capitol in Washington, D.C. The one-day event, Dominican-Americans from communities around the nation are invited to attend workshops on issues ranging from immigration, education and the workforce, the US …

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Former Santiago Mayor and PLD presidential candidate Abel Martinez is off the hook after a DNA test disproved accusations that he is not the father of the teenage son of Keira Varela. She had pressed charges accusing Martinez of fathering the son when she was a minor. The accusations went public when Martinez was running …

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A judge in the Permanent Attention Office of the National District has ordered three months of pretrial detention for one of the Haitian citizens accused of assaulting two agents of the Migration Agency (DGM) during a migration inspection operation in the Piantini sector of the National District. One of the accused has been identified as …

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The trial against Major League Baseball shortstop Wander Franco being heard in a Puerto Plata court was postponed until 2 June 2025. The suspended Tampa Bay shortstop is accused of psychological and sexual abuse of a 14-year-old girl. In addition to the baseball player, the victim’s mother, Martha Vanessa Chevalier Almonte, is also charged with …

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The Estrellas Orientales rallied for three runs in the top of the 11th inning to defeat the Toros del Este 6-4 at Estadio Francisco Micheli in La Romana and become the first team to qualify in the 2024-25 Dominican Winter Professional Baseball Championship, the Dominican League (Lidom) reports in a press release. The game was …

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Haitian Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils-Aimé has appointed Colombian-Haitian national Wooldy Edson Louidor as the new ambassador to the Dominican Republic. Louidor is a renowned researcher and professor at Colombia’s Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá. As reported, he is well-respected within the Haitian diaspora. He is an expert on migration issues, with published research carried …

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For years, Dominican military and Migration agents have been instructed to not respond to aggression from Haitian migrants. There is even a famous case of cardiologist Dr. Pedro Ureña on the border in 2018 who was kidnapped while Dominican military looked on and did nothing. Now, after Haitian migrants injured a Migration agent in the …

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An analysis on Haiti in N Digital by Raul German Bautista lists the recent commentaries by key personalities in Haiti while remarking how the elite has failed to comment on the escalating violence in that country and instead the focus continues to be on the deportations from the Dominican Republic. German Bautista writes about how …

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