Dolores Vicioso – Page 969

President Luis Abinader is scheduled to travel to New York City on Saturday, 18 September for a five-day visit. In New York agenda he will meet with the Dominican community and then speak at the 76th United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday, 22 September. An estimated 1.5 million Dominicans live in the New York area. …

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In recent weeks, small outbreaks of Covid-19 have been occurring in provinces where the disease had dropped significantly. Provinces where 1 or 2 cases had been reported per day are now reporting 20 cases. Now the Ministry of Public Health gives the explanation. The Delta variant has been here at least since July 2021. The …

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The Abinader administration has made available millions of pesos for the completion of works related to the Santo Cristo de los Milagros Sanctuary in Monte Plata. The religious site has capacity for 2,000 persons and had been inaugurated by former President Danilo Medina on 10 August 2020, days before the change of administration but was …

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Only 528 of almost 11,000 education graduates and public school teachers who took the written assessments for teacher positions in public schools for the 2021-2022 school year have passed the tests. This is 4.8% of the total that took the cognitive tests and the specific knowledge tests to pass the written test phase of the …

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The secretary general of the city government of the National District, transport expert Hugo Beras announced that cargo trucks will soon be banned from circulating in the capital city from 6am to 8pm. The measure affects 3,000-4,000 cargo trucks that at present are circulating in the city, adding to the traffic jams. Many of these …

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The Supreme Court of Justice appointed Napoleon Estevez to be the special instruction judge for legislators under investigation regarding the Operation Falcon, a case looking into the actions of a major money laundering and international drug trafficking network that had been operating freely for more than 10 years in the Dominican Republic. Estevez had already …

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John F. Kanig, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration, Caribbean Field Division, visited as part of collaboration with Dominican drug control authorities. The DEA is working closely in the cocaine trafficking and money laundering investigation – Operation Falcon. Kanig is the regional director for the US drug control agency. Last Wednesday, …

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The National Drug Control Agency (DNCD) confirms the arrest of Juan Carlos Mosquea Eduardo, brother of Erick Randhiel Mosquea Polanco, head of a major cocaine trafficking and money laundering network that operated in Santiago and eastern provinces and who is a fugitive in the Operation Falcon case. Juan Carlos Mosquea is described as the operations …

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The Attorney General Office announced the director of the money laundering and terrorism financing division Luis Gonzalez has been fired. He had been suspended. Ramona Nova was appointed director of the important division of the Attorney General Office. Nova was the chief prosecutor in San Pedro de Macoris The Superior Council of the Public Ministry …

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The defense of former Attorney General Jean Alain Rodriguez denied ties of their defendant to Ana Margarita Collado Marte, arrested for her ties with Erick Randhiel Mosquea Polanco, said to be the head of the Operation Falcon cocaine trafficking operation. The defense said that Collado Marte is but another of 9,000 employees at the Attorney …

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