2024 – Page 80

All parks in the National District have been closed as a precautionary measure due to heavy rains and strong winds associated with a tropical wave and trough affecting the city, local authorities announced on Tuesday, 3 September 2024. The decision was made after the Emergency Operations Center (COE) raised the alert level for the National …

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President Luis Abinader is scheduled to leave for the United States on Tuesday, 3 September 2024 to attend several events in New York and Washington, D.C., at the invitation of international organizations. He is booked on a commercial flight from Las Américas International Airport to New York. He is scheduled to give the opening remarks …

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President Luis Abinader dedicated the first part of his weekly press conference on 2 September 2024 to present actions being taken to achieve efficiencies in the distribution of power in the country. President Luis Abinader for his second term named as Minister of Energy his trusted former Minister of the Presidency Joel Santos. The power …

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It was about time. The Presidency announced that the National Institute of Transit and Land Transportation (Intrant) took decisive action to secure the nation’s traffic light system following a serious disruption caused by the contracted company. The incident, which occurred between Wednesday 28 and Friday, 30 August 2024, affecting dozens of traffic lights on key …

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Foreign Minister Roberto Alvarez explained the participation of the Dominican Republic in the seizure by the United States of a Dassault Falcon 900EX jet that had landed in May 2024 to the La Isabela International Airport, when asked about the issue during the weekly La Semanal press conference on 2 September 2024. Alvarez said that …

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NYC Health + Hospitals has appointed Dominican-born Cristina Contreras, LMSW, MPA, FABC as the CEO of NYC Health + Hospitals/Lincoln. NYC Health + Hospitals is the largest public health system in the United States, with a network of 11 acute care hospitals, trauma centers, and nursing homes. In this capacity, as of 16 September 2024 …

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