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The trafficking of Haitian migrants has increased at an alarming rate over the last two months in the Dominican Republic, and according to experts, they are not able to work and many are disabled. They include children, teenagers, disabled people, fugitives from Haitian justice and others who are strongly rejected by their own emigre community. …

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Providing some seven million people on the voting lists with new personal identification and voter registration cards – “cedulas” – as well as re-opening the overseas offices are two of the major jobs facing the Central Electoral Board (JCE) in 2014. Another task they face is to work out the calendar for the 2016 elections. …

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A legislative bill submitted by the Dominican Association of Pension Fund Administrators (ADAFP) modifies Article 45 of Law 87-01, which proposes to increase the retirement age from 60 to 65. It also establishes, however, that the contributor should have accumulated a fund that will permit him or her to enjoy a retirement equal to or …

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Lissette Ortiz, a student born in the Dominican Republic, made an impression when taking part in the inauguration ceremony for Mayor Bill de Blasio yesterday, Wednesday 1 January. A Medgar Evers college senior (City University of New York), Ortiz introduced former President Bill Clinton, who swore in De Blasio. During her speech, Ortiz recounted, both …

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A seventeen-year old was the mother of the first baby born in the New Year at the San Lorenzo Maternity Hospital in Los Mina. According to Listin Diario, she was soon followed by two other women who gave birth at other public health system maternity units. The young mother, Ruth Encarnacion, gave birth to her …

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Twenty-six lives were lost over the year-end festivities for 2013 and the welcoming of 2014, all in traffic accidents, according to the Emergency Operations Center (COE). The agency’s bulletin number 3 on the second phase of the Christmas operation called “For Dominican values and safety” reports that 734 people were injured, including 184 cases of …

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Dominican singer Sonia Silvestre spent the Christmas and New Year holidays in the hospital for a bacterial infection that caused severe anemia and affected the functioning of her kidneys, as reported in El Dia. She was treated in the intensive care unit of the Centro de Otorrinolaringologia located on Santo Domingo’s Av. 27 de Febrero. …

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Mexican singer Alejandro Fernandez (El Potrillo) is booked for a stop in Santo Domingo on his The Confidencias World Tour that is taking him to 19 countries. The Latin Grammy winning and multi-platinum selling Mexican superstar is promoting his new Confidencias album that debuted at #1 on the Bill Board Latin charts. The production has …

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The Hard Rock Hotel Punta Cana has announced a concert by Dominican superstar Juan Luis Guerra, Spaniard Alejandro Sanz and Puerto Rican Robi Draco Rosa on Saturday, 22 March 2014. The event will take place off the hotel’s golf course area.

Russian DJ Zedd, famous for his participation in Lady Gaga’s ArtPop album, will perform at the Oro Disco of Hard Rock Hotel Punta Cana on Sunday, 5 January.