2014 – Page 38

Yesterday, Monday 10 November 2014, was President Danilo Medina’s 63rd birthday, and according to the latest Gallup poll, he celebrated it as his popularity continues to increase. Across all social media, messages of congratulations poured in from his friends, family, government workers and sympathizers. Danilo Medina Sanchez was born on 10 November in 1951 in …

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In an interview in El Dia today, Tuesday 11 November 2014, Foreign Minister Andres Navarro sets out how the government will replace its usual circumstantial or reactive foreign policy towards international organizations with a more proactive and participatory approach. He said that the plan is to maintain a proactive position abroad so the country has …

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The Ground Transport Office (OTTT) director, Hector Mojica has announced that the cost of public transport will be reduced by RD$5 on urban routes and between RD$10 and RD$40 on intercity routes as of Thursday. Mojica said that a resolution with the instruction would be published tomorrow, Wednesday, 12 November 2014. He said that OTTT …

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The latest epidemic bulletin just released states that epidemics in the Dominican Republic are under control compared to the last five years. The authorities’ main concern at the moment is to prevent the entrance of the Ebola virus. Dengue fever currently has the highest mortality rate in the country, although it is not considered to …

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The Emergency Operations Center (COE) reports that around 200 homes in Las Salinas in the southwestern province of Barahona were flooded after the Saladillo River broke its banks, as a result of the heavy rains affecting the area over the past few days. According to the Civil Defense, the Las Flores and La Esperanza neighborhoods …

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Former archbishop of Santiago, Monsignor Juan Antonio Flores Santana died on Sunday 9 November 2014, aged 87. From 8am on Monday, dozens of pilgrims and religious leaders attended his wake at the Blandino Funeral home. According to his doctors, Flores Santana died from multiple organ failure in the Intensive Care Unit of the Santiago Metropolitan …

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Around 70 Haitians were rescued on Sunday, 9 November 2014 from the Mona Island, a small, uninhabited island belonging to Puerto Rico that is a nature reserve, 70 kilometers off the west coast of Puerto Rico. The Puerto Rican police said that they had all traveled in an illegal boat trip from the Dominican Republic …

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National Drug Control Agency (DNCD) agents have confiscated five packets of a white substance, presumably cocaine or heroin, from a German national who was trying to smuggle it to Belgium. He was scheduled to board a Jetair flight to Brussels departing from the Punta Cana International Airport. DNCD spokesman Dario Medrano said they received a …

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