2017 – Page 243

Due to snowstorm Stella that will affect the northeast of the United States on Tuesday 14 March 2017, two airlines have cancelled 13 flights both on Monday 13 and Tuesday 14 March, to and from the cities of New York and Boston and Las Americas International Airport and Gregorio Luperon in Puerto Plata. According to …

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The Intergovernmental Coordination Group for the Tsunami and other Coastal Hazards Warnings in the Caribbean announced they will be going ahead with the Caribe Wave 2017 exercise in the Caribbean on 21 March 2017. The initial mock alert for the three scenarios will be issued by the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center (PTWC), which is the …

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The Central Anti Narcotics Division (DICAN) of the National Police has confiscated 55 kilos of the drugs out of the 78 kilos which was incinerated by the Attorney General’s office which is 72% of the drugs confiscated last week, and the National Drug Control Agency (DNCD) confiscated the other 22 kilos. The drugs were confiscated …

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National District Prosecutor, Yeni Berenice Reynoso, has warned that she will not allow preventive custody to be lifted in the case of those on trial for the murder of the former rector of the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo (UASD) Mateo Aquino Febrillet, which took place on 11 March 2016. She said that all of …

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The confiscation of assets owned by drug dealers by the Dominican state has brought into government coffers over RD$669 million between June 2007 and August 2016. Of these assets, as stipulated in law 72-02, 85% of their value is distributed among the National Drug Control Agency (DNCD), the National Drug Council (CND), the Attorney General’s …

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Responsible and coherent was how neighborhood groups are calling the decision of developers of the Hard Rock Santo Domingo Hotel & Casino to cease the construction project at the corner Abraham Lincoln and Andrés Julio Aybar. The neighbors had brought legal action against the construction, arguing it violated many zoning regulations and would bring chaos …

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Around 28 hikers, who alerted authorities that they were lost on Sunday morning, 12 March 2017, in a heavily wooded mountain area of the La Jalda Waterfall National Park in El Seibo, were found by a brigade from the Ministry of Environment at 1am on Monday morning. With darkness closing in, the hikers called for …

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The Acting Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary and Haiti Special Coordinator, Kenneth Merten is visiting the country. The announcement was made by the US Embassy. The Embassy says he is visiting to make advances in the forming of alliances in the Western Hemisphere for regional economic stability. The US Embassy says he will meet with senior …

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Fernando González Nicolas, president of the Commonwealth Round Table in the Dominican Republic, announced the Dominican Republic experienced a US$664 million trade surplus with Commonwealth countries in 2016. Exports were US$1.47 billion and imports US$782 million. González said that exports of Commonwealth countries form a conglomerate that would be the third largest trade partner of …

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The Ministry of the Environment has announced that it has suspended the renewal of the environmental license for Seaboard /Transcontinental Capital Corporation, a power-producing generator barge. The Ministry ordered the barge that is located on the eastern edge of the Ozama River be relocated to the other side of the river where it will cause …

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