Dolores Vicioso – Page 7

News analysts spent the weekend giving more explanations on the diverse rackets that impacted the state government insurance plan, Senasa. The details of the complicity of Senasa officials with private companies and the diverse schemes and enormous volume of irregular transactions have been coming to the open for the first time. The Abinader administration first …

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The Metropolitan Office of Bus Services (Omsa) has temporarily suspended borrowing for the purchase of its vehicles on its routes, citing a comprehensive legal and administrative audit. The agency announced the measure, which it says is a move toward improving the quality of its services, as reported in Diario Libre. The measure is one of …

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The executive director of the Social and Economic Council (CES) has delivered a 32-page document outlining 25 plans for action and 151 proposals regarding just about every aspect of Dominican relations with Haiti and its citizens. Haitian migration into the Dominican Republic was perhaps a leading area of discussion. The CES executives, President Luis Abinader …

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The Abinader administration has just announced a tender for the construction of 10 new penitentiary units in provinces around the country. The estimated budget calls for spending just over RD$7.5 billion. The most obvious objective of this major construction program is to drastically reduce the overcrowding in the nation’s current penitentiary facilities. Pedernales, Bahoruco (Neiba), …

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In a rare joint operation, the United States and the Dominican Republic conducted their first-ever coordinated counter-narcoterrorism mission, culminating in the destruction of a speedboat and the seizure of more than a ton of suspected cocaine off the coast of Pedernales province. The operation was carried out now that the Trump administration has underway a …

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25-year old Russian Dmitrii Novikov was arrested in the Dominican Republic. He was living with relatives in a villa in the Palmas del Sol II in the Bavaro section of Punta Cana. The Attorney General Office says that he worked from here on the project known as Lakhta or The Company and carried out actions …

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Major delays occurred at Las Americas International Airport (SDQ) caused by a power outage on Sunday, 21 September 2025. The Vinci-managed Aerodom airport reported that at least 20 flights were affected. Diario Libre publishes that 30 flights were impacted. Several flights were detoured to the airports of Santiago and Punta Cana. The power outage began …

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