2017 – Page 70

The Cerveceria Nacional Dominicana announced yesterday that 10% of ticket sales for the Festival Presidente 2017 will be donated to help build houses for the 170 families that lost their homes in Boba, Nagua and in the provinces of Montecristi and Duarte. In addition a percentage of total beverages sales in October will be tagged …

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A man from Macomb County in Michigan man who fled the country to avoid dozens of felony charges has been arrested in the Dominican Republic. David Johnson, aged 51, was charged in May 2017 with 27 felonies as owner of Livernois Dental, which he has since sold. He is accused of using a doctor’s information …

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The president of the Federation of Dominican Students (FED), Yimi Gabriel Zapata Batista was arrested on Tuesday, 3 October 2017, by police who intercepted him in a car park of a commercial center near to the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo (UASD). There was an arrest warrant out for him accusing him of being part …

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The Dominican Army has stopped more than 300 Haitians trying to enter the country with fake documents. This is part of Operation Shield that has supposedly increased the vigilance and control at the border by the Army. According to a press release, the Haitians are using identification cards that either belong to another people or …

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So far this year there have been 44 deaths due to leptospirosis and 511 suspected cases, 33 of which have been registered in the last three weeks. This is 14 deaths more than last year to the same date and 206 more suspected cases. Spikes in the disease occur in situations of flooding waters due …

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There has been a plague of stink bugs, which is affecting the residents of Montecristi and Dajabón in the northwest, to such an extent that brigades from the Ministry of Public Works and Communications (MOPC) have begun an extensive fumigation program to eradicate the insects. Twenty trucks with fumigation machinery and 48 fumigation backpacks have …

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The World Bank reported on 3 October 2017 that remittances to Latin America and the Caribbean are expected to increase by 6.9% to US$79 billion in 2017. Remittances are today more important than international aid in the region. As reported by the World Bank, economic growth and improvement in the labor market in the United …

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The president of the Dominican Medical College (CMD), Waldo Ariel Suero has announced another national strike at public hospitals for 48 hours starting Wednesday, 11 October 2017, in response to the comments by the director of the National Health Service, Nelson Rodríguez Monegro, who accused the heads of the union of being irrational and of …

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Economy and Planning Minister Isidoro Santana released on 3 October 2017, a study that again alerts of the high maternal mortality and teenage pregnancy rates in the Dominican Republic. Researchers looked into birth rates, migration, sexual health, reproductive health, and aging and their relationship to population dynamics and sustainable development. The study was carried out …

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The president of the Constitutional Court in the Dominican Republic, Milton Ray Guevara says that the escape by Alejandro Castillo Paniagua “Quirinito”, originally sentenced to 30 years in jail for murder, puts at stake the credibility of justice in the Dominican Republic. Local justice has been frequently criticized for cases of corruption and impunity for …

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