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As the Operation Anti-Octopus continues, the Public Prosecutor’s Office on Wednesday, 1 September 2021 reports more than 20 raids in different places in the National District, and the provinces of Santo Domingo and Monseñor Nouel. The raids are tied to investigations related to corruption and money laundering schemes involving Alexis Medina Sánchez. Medina Sánchez is …

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The Court of Appeals of the National District retracted the order of arrest against economist Andres (Andy) Dauhajre for his no show at a hearing to revoke a filing of a case against him made by the past Attorney General authorities. Dauhajre showed up at the court on 2 September 2021 and committed to appear …

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The Dominican candidate to Miss World will be chosen this Saturday, 4 September 2021 during a pageant at the Barceló Grand Resort in Punta Cana. 25 women are competing to represent the Dominican Republic in the 70th edition of the global show. The pageant will take place on 16 December 2021 at the José Miguel …

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Through the Banco de Reservas, the Dominican government is picking up the tab for the hosting of the 2022 Caribbean Baseball Series in Santo Domingo. The classic will be played at the Estadio Quisqueya Juan Marichal in Santo Domingo. The Aguilas Cibaeñas is the defending team after winning the pennant in Mexico in February 2021. …

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The spread of Covid-19 in the Dominican Republic continues under control. The authorities, nevertheless, are closely monitoring the virus and its variants. The national 4-week positivity rate for the 1 September 2021 epidemiological bulletin (532) report is at 5.83%, down from the previous day. The 24-hour positivity for the day is 8.24%, down from the …

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The National Statistics Office (ONE) will carry out the 10th National Population and Housing Census of the Dominican Republic in October 2022, at a programmed cost of RD$2.9 billion, announced Miosotis Rivas Peña, ONE director. The census would have been carried out in 2020 but was postponed due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Rivas said that …

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Together with the Navy and the Dominican Council of Fisheries and Aquaculture, the Ministry of Environment announced more than half a ton of parrotfish and conch were seized in operations in northeastern Samana. The banned species were confiscated on two fishing boats. The owners will be sent to justice. The authorities intercepted the 836 pounds …

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There is too much political interference in the Police and the entire force should be replaced or restructured in the next eight to 10 years, according to the findings of the diagnostic analysis carried out of the National Police in the Dominican Republic by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). The Abinader …

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With a mass vaccination program in place, the Dominican Republic faces the uncertainty of whether the imminent entry of the Delta Covid-19 variant will cause a major outbreak as has occurred in Florida. Listin Diario and Mariasela Alvarez (Esta Noche con Mariasela) interviewed Denise Gomez, a Dominican dentist with global health studies at John Hopkins …

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The director of the Department of Epidemiology at the Ministry of Public Health, Dr. Ronald Skewes reported during the Wednesday, 1 September 2021 Covid-19 press conference that 9 cases of Covid-19 Mu variant were identified in May 2021 circulating in the Dominican Republic. In May there was a spike in cases of Covid-19 that subsequently …

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