Dolores Vicioso – Page 209

Osvaldo Virgil in 1956 became the first Dominican to reach Major League Baseball (MLB). His debut with the New York Giants on 23 September 1956 would open the doors for thousands of other Dominican players who would follow. Today the Dominican Republic is the leading provider of foreign players to the world’s most important baseball …

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José Manuel Paliza, a prominent businessman and former president of the National Business Council (Conep), passed away on Friday, 27 September 2024. He was the husband of fellow entrepreneur Elena Viyella and the uncle of Minister of the Presidency Jose Ignacio Paliza. Paliza was a visionary and was active in the founding of several leading …

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It’s time to enjoy a selection of best plays as the Ministry of Culture engages in the splurge of 21 theatrical productions for the 2024 National Theater Festival (Fenate). The event will take place nationwide with performances by around 350 artists at theaters and venues from 20 to 30 October 2024. This year, playwright Basilio …

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President Luis Abinader will travel to Mexico City on Monday, 30 September 2024 to attend the inauguration of President-elect Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo. President Abinader is scheduled to depart in the afternoon arriving in Mexico City in the early evening. On Tuesday, 1 October 2024, Abinader will participate in the swearing-in ceremony for Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, …

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Come 7 October 2024, former Haitian ambassador to the Dominican Republic Smith Augustin will be sworn in as the leader of Haiti’s Presidential Transitional Council. He takes over from Edgar LeBlanc whose speech at the UN General Assembly Debate became viral not for his call for solidarity and historic restitution, but for drinking water from …

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President Luis Abinader issued Decree 560-24 on Saturday, 28 September 2024, naming Vice Admiral Luis Rafael Lee Ballester to the position of director general of the Migration Agency, the Presidency website reports. He replaces Venancio Alcántara who held the position since 2022. At the time of his appointment, Lee Ballester served as the director of …

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The Executive Branch sent a whopping RD$1.5 trillion budget to the National Congress late last week. This is the first step in the restructuring of the government that was recently announced. According to the estimates offered to the press, the Abinader administration expects to cover about RD$1.2 trillion (15/3% of GDP) of the budget through …

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La Vega doesn’t have a mayor after President Luis Abinader named Kevin Cruz, who was on the job only since April 2024, to the position of Sports Minister. Who will replace him is still being worked out after the deputy mayor resigned. Nevertheless, President Luis Abinader was in La Vega this past weekend to deliver …

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A contractor of renovation work in the Colonial City has been told to hold after digging to install new piping turned up what is believed to be the brick remains of a chapel that preceded the construction of the Santo Domingo Cathedral. The works have been paralyzed at Padre Billini between Hostos and 19 de …

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The investigative journalist Nuria Piera published a long report on the recent announcement by the National Institute for Student Welfare (Inabie) that millions of pesos worth of student supplies would be incinerated because they are no good to anyone. According to the report, the Ministry of Education put out a tender in 2012 for school …

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