Dolores Vicioso – Page 1018

Attorney General Miriam German Brito explained in a letter the travel allowance status of former Attorney General Jean Alain Rodríguez as of 28 June 2021. The letter is sent after Rodríguez was impeded to leave the country on Thursday, 26 June 2021. Rodriguez had boarded a Spirit flight to Orlando, Florida on Thursday, 26 June …

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Dominican children’s book author, Lucia Amelia Cabral won the first National Library Children’s Literature Award. The award comes with a RD$1 million cash prize. Culture Minister Carmen Heredia made the announcement. The members of the jury that chose Cabral were Bruno Rosario Candelier, director de la Dominican Academy of Language; Julio Cuevas, literature professor at …

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The Ministry of Public Health ordered the temporary shutdown of Peperoni restaurant and bar in Piantini for allowing an off curfew hour party to be held on its premises. The Ministry reported on its social media on the temporary closure of the restaurant and bar that is located on Federico Geraldino street in the Piantini …

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Miches’ flagship hotel, the Club Med Playa Esmeralda is open again north of Punta Cana on the east coast, welcoming families back since 19 June 2021. The all-inclusive beach resort reopened after months of shutdown due to Covid-19. This is the second Club Med in the DR to open after the pandemic shut down. The …

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As of 30 June, the La Cadena brand supermarket located at Sarasota and the one on San Vicente de Paul in eastern Santo Domingo are to be rebranded as Supermercados Nacional. La Cadena branches will continue to operate at the venues on Abraham Lincoln, Los Próceres, Correa y Cidrón, Núñez de Cáceres, Cervantes in Gazcue, …

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TV investigative journalist Nuria Piera presented more details of the complicated drama behind the would-be double identity of Santiago deputy for the Modern Revolutionary Party (PRM), Luis Rene Fernandez Tavarez. After her investigative journalism show aired on Saturday, 26 June 2021 on Channel 9, the deputy prepared a video where he says he has nothing …

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A car wash employee apparently went for a joy ride with a car entrusted to his care. But, unfortunately, he would run over Marilitza (Kika) Villar, the widow of the former El Seibo fireman chief, Carlos Valera Castillo, on Av. Manuela Diez Jimenez and then crash the Grand Cherokee SUV into a light post. The …

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Retired General Salvador (Chinino) Lluberes Montas says he is a victim of an insider job that cost him US$6.4 million in life savings. He had the money in safe boxes in his property in Casa de Campo, La Romana. He says the caretaker at his house and several others are under arrest, but he hasn’t …

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The Ministry of Public Health’s Epidemiology Department Coronavirus Bulletin #466 reports 872 new PCR cases for the Sunday, 27 June 2021 deadline. The new restrictions have apparently controlled the spike of Covid-19 cases that is attributed to the entry of the more transmissible variants of the original coronavirus and the increased mixing of people, confounded …

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President Luis Abinader was in Nagua over the weekend to announce the start of the construction of the Nagua boardwalk and seawall and meet with the community. The works are expected to take a year and a half. Work has begun on the construction of the Malecon at a cost of approximately RD$2.7 billion. The …

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