2017 – Page 114

Foreign Minister Miguel Vargas confirmed a meeting with Haitian senators at the Ministry of Foreign Relations in Santo Domingo. Also participating was Dominican Defense Minister Lieutenant General Rubén Darío Paulino Sem and the general director of the Specialized Land Border Control Corps (Cesfront), Sugar Puittzi Frugis Martínez. During the meeting the Dominican government officers reaffirmed …

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Foreign Relations Minister Miguel Vargas responded to a request by the community of Venezuelans living in the Dominican Republic for exceptions to requirements for status legalization saying that for the time being Venezuelans need visas to enter the country. Vargas said that Venezuelans need to adhere to the Migration Law in regards to their stay …

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The spokesman for President Danilo Medina, Roberto Rodríguez Marchena, guaranteed that “the President would not upset or disrupt the constitutional mandate”. He gave this statement in reference to recent expressions of support for a possible bid for re-election by the President in the 2020 elections. Rodríguez was interviewed on the Super 7 In the Morning, …

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Puerto Rican salsa singer Gilberto Santa Rosa is booked for a 7 September 2017 performance at the Gran Teatro del Cibao. Next he will be in Santo Domingo for two performances on 8 and 9 September at the National Theater. Performances are at 8:30pm. Tickets are for sale at Uepa Tickets, Jumbo, Supermercados Nacional and …

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“La Reina y la Diva” is the name of the concert merengue singers Milly Quezada and Miriam Cruz will present at the Hard Rock Live at the Blue Mall in Santo Domingo on Saturday, 2 September as of 9pm. Also on the program for the evening is stand up comedian Carlos Sánchez. 9 August 2017

A 16-year old, who had been reported as missing, was discovered murdered last night, 8 August 2017, in a ditch in Bayaguana, and his family is accusing the parish priest from Villa Mella of the crime. Fernely Carrión Saviñón was an altar boy in the parish of Our Lady of Fátima de Villa, under priest …

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An Air Canada flight from Punta Cana with Dominican and Canadian tourists on board collided with a LOT Polish Airlines when taxiing to the gate at Terminal 1 of the Pearson International Airport in Toronto, Canada on the evening of Saturday, 5 August 2017. The accident happened when the Lot Polish Airlines Boeing 787 Dreamliner …

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The Police reported the dismantling of a forgery center that operated near the Haitian Consulate in Santo Domingo. The Police reported that passports, birth certificates and marriage certificates were forged there. The arrests were made as the suspects worked inside two parked vehicles at the intersection of Calle José Desiderio Valverde and Calle Juan Sánchez …

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On Monday, 7 August 2017, 50 Dominican fishermen returned to Puerto Plata, after remaining prisoners for eight months and 12 days in the Bahamas for fishing illegally in Bahamian territorial waters. The group returned to the Dominican Republic on the Dominican Armada patrol boat, the Almirante Didiez Burgos that traveled to Bahamas to pick them …

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Citing difficulties in Venezuela in securing official documents, spokespersons for the Venezuelan community in the Dominican Republic are requesting that the Dominican government approve exceptions to the regular immigration procedures so the new immigrants can legalize their status in the country. The Dominican government has been lenient with Haitians that have also had difficulties in …

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