2017 – Page 23

There were no injuries reported after an abrupt rough landing of a small mono motor airplane on the Cibao International Airport runway. However, the airplane HI885 suffered damage to its fuselage. Santiago González, spokesperson for the airport, said the authorities would issue a report on the accident. The accident did not affect the normal flight …

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The latest headline news story on female violence is that of a migration lawyer who suffered multiple serious knife wounds when attacked by her former spouse in the Barrio Hazim of southeastern San Pedro de Macoris. 28-year old Anibel González Ureña was attacked and injured by Yamiro Oscar Fernández (Ray), owner of the Mega Muebles …

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The Popular Bank Group announced vehicle sales for RD$4.8 billion over the weekend. This is 12% more than during the same event held last year. The bank is financing 3,857 new vehicles that will enter circulation nationwide. The average financing was for RD$1.3 million. The bank reports that the most sold vehicles were SUVs. The …

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A report in Diario Libre, based on a new study on the health care providers’ role in the health system in the Dominican Republic, criticized the present model, concluding that it focuses on treating illnesses, while lending scant attention to preventing illnesses. Economist Airon Fernandez Gil, of the Fundacion Juan Bosch that carried out the …

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Foro Zack 2017 will be held in Santo Domingo at the Hotel Catalonia on the Malecón from 5-6 December 2017. The International Forum for Financing to Implement Policies and Mitigation and Adaptation Policies for Climate Change event seeks to share information on the existing options for climate change financing and mechanisms to access these. The …

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Foreign Affairs Minister Miguel Vargas was reelected president of the Dominican Revolutionary Party (PRD) for four more years during the 34th Extraordinary Convention of the party held on Saturday, 2 December 2017. During the assembly, several articles in the bylaws of the party were modified. Vargas in 2016 chose to back President Danilo Medina so …

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The Chamber of Accounts of the Dominican Republic recommended the Central Electoral Board pay the arrears with the Spanish company Indra Sistemas that supplied electronic vote counting equipment for the 2016 general election. The equipment that would have operated on the day of the 2016 election cost taxpayers US$35,266,003. Back in 2016, then president of …

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Altice chief executive officer Martin Roos has said he is pleased with the conditions established in Resolution No. 77-17 by the Dominican Telecommunications Institute (Indotel) upon authorizing the merge of Orange and Tricom in the Dominican Republic. The resolution authorized Altice keep the 30 megahertz spectrums each that had been already authorized to Orange and …

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The Dominican Postal Institute (Inposdom) and the US Postal Service (USPS) signed an agreement when meeting in Uruguay to increase levels of security and efficiency in the mail between both countries. Signing were Modesto Guzman, executive director for Inposdom and Franca Davis, managing director for global business at USPS. The agreement calls for the exchange …

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President Danilo Medina announced that a follow up meeting with the participation of Venezuelan government and opposition leaders would take place in Santo Domingo on 15 December 2017. This would be the third meeting in Santo Domingo of the Venezuelan political factions. A first meeting was held in Santo Domingo on 13 September 2017. The …

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