Dolores Vicioso – Page 1025

The Dominican Republic has experienced a record high inflation this year. The Central Bank revealed that the inflation rate between May 2020 and May 2021 had hit 10.48%. This makes official what everyone has felt in their pocketbooks. In the first five months of the year, the rate was 3.36%, which points to a yearly …

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Claro, the nation’s largest telecom company, has announced that it is going to clamp down on users who exceed 2000 gigabytes. The company published a press release calling attention to the contracts customers have signed. Media reports indicate that the concern may be that customers are reselling the service. Read more in Spanish:N Digital Somos …

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Air Transat has plans to fly passengers to La Romana, Puerto Plata, Punta Cana and Samana international airports. The flights will be from Montreal-Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport (YUL), Toronto Pearson International Airport (YYZ) and Quebec City Jean Lesage International Airport (YQB). The airline announced domestic flights between Montreal, Quebec City, Toronto, and Vancouver to …

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Construction continues at the new multi-use wharf and pier structure going up in the Puerto Plata city center. The builders expect the new Taino Bay facility to be ready by year’s end. The main focus of the terminal is cruise ship passengers. At present, cruise ship travel is at a minimum. The widespread vaccination programs …

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Lt. Colonel Luis Morales (Luis Arquímedes Morales Reyes) is the commander of the Second Communications Squadron at Barksdale Air Force Base in northern Louisiana, USA since last week. This native of El Seibo is a career US Air Force officer and pilot with over 24 years of service. He is also an expert in cybersecurity …

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The Dominican Armada (Navy) successfully intercepted a 23-foot speedboat loaded with a cargo of 279 “bricks” of what is suspected to be cocaine. At press time, the National Forensics Institute had not released findings on what was determined or the weight of the seized contraband. Four Colombians were arrested. All this happened off the coast …

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A man died late last week in the town of Esperanza in the province of Valverde. He was 41. His companion, 34, is in severe condition in the local hospital. The authorities are searching for the sellers of the adulterated alcohol, suspected to have entered the country from Haiti. Very recently, local authorities in the …

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The Dominican Republic’s national baseball team is in Mexico for the Tokyo Olympics qualifier set for Puebla, Mexico 22-26 June 2021. There the DR will match Venezuela and the Netherlands for the last slot available to the summer Olympics. As a preparatory match for the qualifier, the Dominican national team played Team Mexico on Saturday, …

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The Volleyball Nations League is the most important annual International Volleyball Federation (FIVB) competition. The Dominican Republic’s women’s team finished sixth in the tournament held this year in Rimini, Italy. The tournament was a preparatory round for the Tokyo Olympics. The DR did not make the semifinals of the Nations League. The teams making the …

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The Ministry of Public Health’s Epidemiology Department Coronavirus Bulletin #458 reports 972 new PCR cases for the Saturday, 19 June 2021 deadline. There is a spike of Covid-19 cases attributed to the entry of the more transmissible variants of the original coronavirus and the increased mixing of people. As has been happening since the start …

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