Dolores Vicioso – Page 791

The 4-week Covid-19 positivity rate continues to drop and now is at 1.26%, with the 24-hour positivity at 1.52% as of Covid-19 Bulletin #956 dated 30 October 2022. Meanwhile, the number of Covid-19 registered cases in the Dominican Republic for Bulletin #956 was 18, down from 21 on the previous day. The seven-day average (confirmed …

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In the very small hilly town of Polo, in Barahona province, President Luis Abinader received the formal proposal to relaunch the nation’s coffee production that was almost destroyed by the onslaught of the blight of “coffee rust.” This fungus attack is said to have wiped out over 90% of Dominican coffee farms. Over the past …

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The long-delayed bill on Territorial Organization, Soil Use and Human Settlements, basically a bill on how to use the land and obtain sustainability over the long term, was passed by a 28 to 1 vote in the Senate last week. This bill has been making the rounds in the National Congress for close to 20 …

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In a TV interview with Pablo McKinney, Foreign Relations Minister Roberto Alvarez explained several of the complexities of dealing with Haiti. He explained that the situation is at a standstill given that the Haitian government in its request to the United Nations has requested a bilateral force not a multilateral intervention to deal with the …

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The Ministry of Energy and Mines (MEM) has launched international public tenders for the contracting of a geochemical and geophysical studies. In regards to the geochemical study in terrestrial sedimentary basins and places with natural emanations in the Dominican Republic, the Ministry explains that the interested parties, both local and international firms, must have technical …

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