2017 – Page 209

According to Public Works Minister Gonzálo Castillo two deaths occurred in El Higuero and Enriquillo and a person was reported missing in Barahona. Monte Plata has suffered the worst damage, with the overflowing of the Ozama River, which has cut off the communities of La Luisa, and Hacienda Estrella. In the northeast, in Sánchez Ramírez …

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The executive director of the National Institute of Hydraulic Resources (INDRHI), Olgo Fernández has called on the communities below Yuna River to prepare themselves for floods as they open the Hatillo Dam. He said that they may need to open the dam as it is quickly filling water. At present the water level in the …

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Public school professor arrested for child molesting in Salcedo A 12-year old boy was the first to speak up about sexual abuses by a public school teacher in Villa Amaro in northeastern Salcedo. It would then be known that Pedro Arismendy Familia had been sexually molesting a dozen children. The boy gathered the courage to …

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On Monday 24 April 2017, at least six people were injured in a crash between a bus and a minibus on the Bulevar del Este highway in Los Manantiales, near the roundabout at Punta Cana. The spokesman for the Metropolitan Transport Authority (Amet), Diego Pesqueira said that initial investigations indicated that a Hyundai minibus spun …

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The Minister of Interior and Police has complained that certain civil sectors that are using the fight against corruption and impunity as a ploy. These groups actually wish to unstabilize the government. Interior and Police Minister Carlos Amarante Baret referred to the Green March movement, saying it is now bringing together radical groups to take …

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Lawyers Manuel Fermín Cabral, Cándido Simón, Valentín Medrano, Miguel Valerio, Félix Damián Olivares and Carlos Balcácer interviewed by Diario Libre reporters say that the agreement signed between the Attorney General and Odebrecht will not impede the Brazilian company from being tried for overpricing in public work constructions. The lawyers said this would not be a …

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The president of the Audit Chamber of the Dominican Republic (CCRD), Hugo Álvarez Pérez has announced that the institution will start to take all the necessary measures to discover what types of irregularities there were in the works built by the Brazilian construction company Odebrecht, in a response to a request made by Attorney General, …

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Dominican authorities have announced plans to increase security forces along the border between the Dominican Republic and Haiti has been increased following the announcement by the United Nations to withdraw its peacekeepers, Minustah troops, estimated to number 400. On Friday, 21 April 2017, Defense Minister Rubén Darío Paulino said the number of Dominican troops will …

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On 24 April 1965, young military officers rose in revolt in the Dominican Republic for the restoration of the democratically-elected government. Four days later US troops invaded the country. It was the first US military intervention in Latin America in more than three decades. Juan Bosch was overthrown in September 1963, and the de facto …

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Hacienda Minister Donald Guerrero and United Kingdom Ambassador Christopher Campbell signed a memorandum of understanding yesterday whereby 500 million sterling pounds (approximately RD$30.3 billion) will be made available for purchasing UK goods and services to back important infrastructure works. The funds are targeted for use in electricity, energy generation, potable water and residual waters treatment …

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