2016 – Page 4

Santo Domingo, capital of the Dominican Republic, is ranked 148th of 209 cities included in the Mercer 22nd Annual Cost of Living Survey. This makes it a relatively inexpensive city to live in. Hong Kong is the most expensive city according to the survey that measures the comparative cost of more than 200 items in …

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Interior and Police Minister Jose Ramon Fadul has reminded residents that beginning on 17 June 2016, the residence permissions given to those foreigners who did not have current passports have begun to expire. This situation has prompted concern for many foreign residents in the country, especially members of the Haitian population that make up the …

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Dozens of Haitians have been demonstrating in front of the Haitian Embassy in Santo Domingo, demanding that the embassy deliver their passports that were requested two up to years ago and that have still not been issued. When the applications by the undocumented Haitian nationals, they were told the passports would be issued in two …

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Members of the Dominican Army have prevented 84 illegal Haitians from entering the country at the border, as reported in El Caribe. The Haitian in question were carrying backpacks with clothes, water and some food and were stopped at checkpoints at Sanita, Copey, Masacre, Santa Maria and Canongo. During their interrogation, the Haitians admitted that …

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The National Drug Control Agency (DNCD) and the Public Prosecution Service carried out several raids yesterday, Tuesday, 5 July 2016, in San Pedro de Macoris and surrounding areas following the confiscation of 919 packages of cocaine in Caleton beach in San Pedro. So far it is known that the leader of the network was Julio …

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The Civil Guard in Spain has arrested ten Dominican and Spanish people in an operation to dismantle a drug trafficking network that used poor couples as “mules” to carry cocaine concealed in their bodies, As reported, those arrested are seven men and three women between the ages of 25 and 51. The network operated by …

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National Geographic Society, the University of Pennsylvania and the Academy of History of the Dominican Republic presented at the National Academy of History on 5 July 2016 the results of a DNA study of Dominican genetic profile. The study to 1,000 Dominicans was carried out to determine the amount of African, European and Pre-Columbian (Taino) …

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The Weather Office (Onamet) is forecasting rains for today mostly in the eastern side. A tropical wave is moving through from Puerto Rico and is expected to bring heavy rains and thunderstorms nationwide on Wednesday, 6 July 2016. After bringing heavy rains to La Altagracia, El Seibo, La Romana, Hato Mayor, San Pedro de Macoris …

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The Canadian team (ranked 17th) got off to a good start in the first set of the XV Women’s Pan American Cup giving the Dominican Republic’s women’s team (ranked 7th) a big scare by leading by five points in most of the first set of the match on Tuesday, 5 July 2016. The home team …

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Enjoy the impressive and colorful sculptures of Dominican artist Juan Trinidad beginning on Thursday, 7 July 2016 at 7:30 PM at the Galeria Nacional de Bellas Artes. He is exhibiting 60 original pieces made from 2011 to 2016. The exhibition, which is open to the public, will last through 31 July.