Dolores Vicioso – Page 1109

The Chamber of Deputies announced on Wednesday, 25 March 2021, it will resume the reading of the amendments incorporated in the Penal Code next Monday, 5 April 2021 at 2pm. The first reading covered from Art. 1 to 76 and passed in the Chamber of Deputies. The deputies are reading 75-100 articles a day to …

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The National Transportation Council (Conachotrán) represented by Fredermido Ferreras Díaz and Leonel Ferreras González sent a motion to the Constitutional Court on 12 March 2021 asking it to declare as article 101 of the by-laws of the ruling Modern Revolutionary Party (PRM) that prohibit presidential re-election in the party in violation with the Dominican Constitution. …

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The Attorney General Office gave Jompéame seven days as of 24 March 2021 to remove publications that it says affect children and adolescents’ rights. It gave the non-profit seven days to comply with the order. Olga Diná Llaverías, head of the National Agency for Children, Adolescents and Family at the Attorney General Office, signed the …

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Dominican businessman Eduardo Pellerano Nadal is suing former Minister of Hacienda Donald Guerrero for alledgedly taking advantage of his position in government to carry out maneuvers that divested him of his ownership of AutoGermana, the local dealership for BMW vehicles in Puerto Rico. Pellerano Nadal is also shareholder in AutoGermánica, the BMW dealership in the …

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Google Maps has incorporated the name of Little Dominican Republic to a large area of Upper Manhattan. The area was officially given the name in September 2018. The footprint goes from 145th Street to 220th Street. Uptown Collective, an online news site, and the Rick H. Podcast sent out tweets on Tuesday, 24 March celebrating …

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The Ministry of Public Health’s Epidemiology Department Coronavirus Bulletin #371 reports 389 new PCR cases for the Wednesday, 24 March 2021 deadline. The cases compare to the 7-day nationwide average for PCR confirmed cases that is 427. For more than a month now, the number of PCR reported cases has kept under 1,000. As per …

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President Luis Abinader and Tourism Minister David Collado were in Miches, in the eastern province of El Seibo, for the presentation of the Pro Miches development project on Wednesday, 24 March 2021. The project contemplates the construction of 3,128 hotel rooms and 1,423 residential vacation units. The project as initially contemplated, would create 9,000 jobs. …

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Spain’s Secretary of Trade, Xiana Margarida Méndez Bértolo spent two days in the Dominican Republic meeting with government ministers to address ways to increase cooperation, investment and trade between the two countries. She highlighted that the trade deficit is compensated by remittances of Dominicans living in Spain and the thousands of Spaniards that vacation in …

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Román E. Caamaño, director of the Dominican Civil Aviation Institute (IDAC), says that the Dominican Republic has one of the highest rates of aviation recovery in the world. Caamaño highlighted that the country already has restored flights with 32 international airports. On a supervisory tour of the Punta Cana International Airport, Caamaño observed that at …

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President Luis Abinader risks being the big loser if he continues to back a referendum to decide if the three grounds for abortion are approved for the Dominican Republic, says Nelson Espinal, a national expert on negotiating.  Espinal sees the President would be losing an exceptional opportunity to consolidate his political leadership. “When people vote …

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