2015 – Page 63

Widespread concern about the growing number of deaths from dengue fever and the increase in hospital admissions of patients with the disease has led President Danilo Medina to instruct all ministries and government departments to carry out a nationwide fumigation program on Friday 30 and Saturday 31 October 2015 beginning at 9am. All public employees …

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President Danilo Medina will inaugurate the newly remodeled Dominican Petroleum Refinery PDV SA this Friday, 30 October 2015. The project cost around US$28 million. The actual installations have not been enlarged but modern equipment has been installed to increase the volume of crude oil to be refined from 28,000 to up to 34,000 barrels a …

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Foreign Relations Minister Andres Navarro has expressed hope that cordial bilateral relations can be re-established once the elections in Haiti are over. He said that the Dominican Republic has great hopes for improvements once the elections have been decided, as Haiti has not had a parliament since January this year. Navarro said he hoped that …

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According to Central Bank governor Hector Valdez Albizu, the Dominican Republic’s income from tourism, overseas investment and remittances totaled around US$10 billion during the period from January to September 2015 Income from tourism topped the list at US$4.64 billion with remittances at US$3.73 billion and foreign investment at US$1.64 billion. These figures do not include …

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Dominican-American author Junot Diaz, who won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 2008, has come under fire from the Dominican consul in New York for criticizing the government’s immigration policies. Consul general Eduardo Selman described Diaz as “anti Dominican” and stripped him of an Order of Merit medal. Dominican-born Diaz has had a long history …

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Veteran journalist and director of El Nacional newspaper, Radhames Gomez Pepin, died yesterday morning, Monday 26 October 2015 at the age of 87. He died in Cedimat after experiencing breathing difficulties. Gomez Pepin, who was the director of El Nacional for 27 uninterrupted years, was born in Santiago on 14 December 1927 and was the …

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According to the French media, the two French pilots who were convicted of drug trafficking and sentenced to 20 years in jail by a Dominican court, have fled the country and are now back in France. Pascal Jean Fauret and Bruno Odos were arrested along with two other Frenchmen at Punta Cana Airport in March …

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The National Drug Control Agency (DNCD) has announced the arrest of four people who were on the run since the confiscation of a shipment of more than 2,019 kilograms of cocaine on the Duarte highway last month from two drug dealers who were carrying the drugs in a truck and an SUV. The men were …

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Liat flights between Antigua and Barbuda and Santa Domingo have been reinstated. There are currently two flights a week to the Dominican Republic from Antigua, but LIAT is now reintroducing their flights, effective 15 December 2015. This comes a year after the airline introduced a temporary cut in service between Antigua & Barbuda and the …

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The Graduate School of Political Management of the George Washington University in Washington, D.C., the Universidad del Caribe, and the Circulopolitico.org are presenting the First International Congress on Political Communications and Fundraising on 28-29 October 2015 at the JW Marriott Hotel in Santo Domingo. The event seeks to be a space for analysis, reflection and …

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