2017 – Page 108

A 20-year old from San José de Ocoa had to work hard to find a public hospital that could help her give birth to her cuadruplets. As reported in El Dia, looking online she found that at the Hospital Materno Reynaldo Almánzar in Villa Mella in 2015 had helped sextuplets be born. The hospital opened …

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The National District city government has agreed to extend for another two hours the time allotted for trucks to travel along the sea-bordering Malecón. The request was made by business organizations. The measure is temporary while the Ministry of Public Works completes a new road (Circunvalación de Santo Domingo) that would divert cargo traffic around …

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Anthropologist Tahira Vargas recommends that the practice of altar boys be banned in the country. She says that the Roman Catholic Church is very powerful in the country and there is no control of their religious activities. The altar boys accompany the priests in mass and other religious activities. She said this would be a …

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Local astronomers of the Sociedad Astronómica Dominicana (AstroDom) are advising the public to take care when trying to catch a glimpse of the partial solar eclipse. The celestial phenomenon will occur when the moon crosses in front of the sun and hides around 74% of the sun as it moves across the Caribbean Monday afternoon, …

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Flooding affected the town of El Limón in Samana. The town is best known for the nearby El Limón waterfall. Visits to the waterfall were suspended on Thursday, 17 August 2017, until the paths dried out with better weather moving in on Friday. Diario Libre reported that a 52-year old Ignacio Moya drowned when river …

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The new president of the Chamber of Deputies, Ruben Maldonado, favors removing abortion articles from the Penal Code. Strong Catholic and Evangelic church opposition to allowing exceptions to the prohibition of abortion has impeded the passing of the Penal Code that has been debated in Congress for the past 20 years. The abortion exceptions have …

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President Danilo Medina was in Punta Cana on Thursday, 17 August 2017 for the formal opening of the Blue Mall Punta Cana. The mall is five minutes away from the Punta Cana International Airport, at the intersection of Boulevard Turístico and Carretera Juanillo. Blue Mall is a joint venture of the Punta Cana Group and …

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President Danilo Medina is expected at the Monte Plata polytechnical high school in Monte Plata for the formal opening of the 2017-2018 school year in the Dominican Republic on Monday, 21 August 2017. The Ministry of Education has ordered public schools to start on 21 August 2017. The country’s 4,826 private schools have more flexible …

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The Metros de Santiago defeated the defending champions, Leones de Santo Domingo 94-87 on 16 August 2017 to win the National Basketball Championship of the National Basketball League (LNB). Making the victory sweeter, it was won at the Santiago Gran Arena Oscar Gobaira. The Santiago team won all but one of their matches in the …

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The best Dominican tennis player of all times, 37-year old Victor Estrella is playing Casper Rudd from Norway today, 17 August 2017, at 4pm in the Milex Open held at the courts of the Santo Domingo Tennis Club (La Bocha). Estrella’s career high Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) ranking was 43rd reached in July 2015. …

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