2017 – Page 138

The government of the United States has deported 66,669 Dominicans in the past 23 years, an average of 2,890 per year. A study from the National Migration Institute expects the numbers of deportees to increase. The increase is expected given a new interpretation of the migratory policy under the Trump administration, which calls for the …

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Santiago city mayor Abel Martínez has charged the Santiago Water Corporation (Coraasan) and its director Silvio Durán Rodríguez for fraud, as reported in La Información. The complaint was submitted to the Specialized Administrative Corruption Prosecution Office (Pepca). The city government says that Coraasan owes them RD$43 million for garbage collection services and RD$22 million for …

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The Natural Sciences and Environment Commission of the Academy of Sciences of the Dominican Republic condemned the actions of those who are maliciously setting forests fires in the Sierra de Bahoruco National Park. The Academy of Sciences is calling for the government to intensify efforts to find the culprits of these environmental crimes. Recently, it …

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The former director of the Migration Agency (DGM), Jose Ricardo Taveras is accusing the government of violating the Migration Law in granting collective status regularization in the past and could do so again. He said when he was at the DGM, they were only able to regularize the status of 536 individuals that met legal …

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Two months after inauguration, a new Montecristi government clinic has yet to open. Residents in Montecristi are complaining that the Centro de Diagnóstico y Atención Primaria inaugurated with the attendance of President Danilo Medina on 18 May 2017 has yet to start offering services. As reported in Diario Libre, community leader Yanuris Abreu said that …

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Santiago Mayor Abel Martínez is fulfilling a campaign promise to bring order to the streets in Santiago, much to the pleasure of city residents. Included in the measures, is an order against allowing windshield cleaners to operate on city streets. Drivers were being harassed at stoplights by the squeegee men, with reports of some of …

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Servio Tulio Castaños, executive vice president of the Fundación Institucionalidad y Transparencia (Finjus) informed the press that 14 individuals who aspire to be elected to the Supreme Court of Justice did not meet the requirement of filing their tax returns. These candidates should not have been pre-selected by the National Council of the Magistracy as …

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On Tuesday 11 July 2017, Major League Baseball played its 88th All-Star Game at Marlins Park, in Miami, Florida. The American League defeated the National League in extra innings by a score of 2-1. Dominican Robinson Canó of the Mariners sealed the American League win by hitting a 10th-inning home run. The media reported that …

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The Professional Baseball League of the Dominican Republic (Lidom) has a new president, Vitelio Mejia Ortiz. Mejia received the unanimous vote from Lidom club presidents in the 11 July 2017 election. Mejía replaces Leonardo Matos Berrido, who held the position for 26 years. Previously, Mejía has been the vice president for legal affairs of the …

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Sadly, Silveria Mercedes Taveras Acosta, 48 years old and a hotel worker, together with nurse Belkis Rodríguez Constanzo, 44, now become just two more numbers in the ongoing tragedy of gender violence in the Dominican Republic. Both women were killed by a man they knew, Reyito Morales, who then committed suicide. In what reporters are …

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