2016 – Page 24

The Dominican Republic’s only Miss Universe (won in 2003 in Panama), Amelia Vega and her husband, Atlantic Hawks star baseball player Al Horford have gone public to announce that baby number two is on the way. Amelia Vega announced the news in a photo posted on Instagram where she said that the family was expecting …

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Amidst a major security operation, United States Secretary of State John Kerry arrived at the Presidential Palace in Santo Domingo at 12:40pm on Tuesday 14 June 2016, accompanied by the Deputy Secretary of State for the Americas, Mari Carmen Aponte; Mark Feierstein, Senior Director for Western Hemisphere Affairs of the US National Security Council and …

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A confrontation erupted between US Secretary of State John F. Kerry and Venezuelan Foreign Relations Minister Delcy Rodriguez at the 46th General Assembly of the Organization of American States (OAS) in Santo Domingo on Tuesday morning, 14 June 2016. The showdown began when Kerry began speaking about Venezuela and expressed concern about the internal situation …

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Despite not being on the official agenda of the 46th OAS General Assembly, the current political situation in Haiti has been one of the topics for debate by the attending foreign ministers. As reported in Diario Libre, the proposal for a repeat of the presidential election on 9 October was raised on the floor. Reportedly, …

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President Danilo Medina was in Herrera on Tuesday, 14 June 2016 for the ceremony marking the completion of the expansion and renovation works at the Marcelino Velez Hospital, which serves Santo Domingo West. The works included the construction of emergency areas for adults and children with 51 beds, an operating theater with capacity for 13, …

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Although a full month has passed since the general elections in the country, all the candidates have still not been announced, complaints are still being submitted to the Superior Electoral Court (TSE) and the opposition still denouncing cases of fraud. The Central Electoral Board (JCE) has not announced all of the winners and there is …

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In a bid to strengthen cooperation among disaster and emergency management agencies across the region, the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA) recently signed a memorandum of understanding with the Dominican Republic’s National Emergency Commission (CNE). The memorandum, signed on 6 June 2016 by Ronald Jackson, executive director of CDEMA, and Major General Rafael Pichirilo …

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According to the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) both businesses and government in Latin America are not good at economizing and this is restricting the growth potential in the region. The report said that the national savings rate in Latin America and the Caribbean between 1980 and 2014 was only 17.5% of the Gross Domestic Product, …

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Members of Civil Defense and the National District Fire Brigade rescued a woman who threw herself into the Caribbean Sea on the morning of Tuesday 14 June 2016 in what was said to be a suicide attempt. She died shortly after the rescue. According to witnesses, 28-year old architect Raquel Reyes Perez jumped into the …

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An inmate at the La Victoria jail feigned illness and together with a fellow inmate called the guard on shift for help, but it was a trick and both managed to escape from the jail. According to a source, the prison guard opened the cell to take the inmate to the prison hospital. However, as …

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