2017 – Page 82

The International Airport in Punta Cana has announced that it will operate normally although checking the official bulletins issued by the Emergency Operations Center (COE) and the Dominican Civil Aviation Institute (IDAC) about the path of Hurricane Maria. The airport administration announced they have put their contingency plan into operation and if they do have …

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Deputy Minister of Tourism Julio Almonte, accompanied by Colonel Ignacio Gullón, director of Cestur and Huascar García, director of Civil Defense, met in Puerto Plata with the Tourism Committee to activate the emergency tourism protocol before Hurricane Maria passes the North Coast. He explained that the procedures were ordered by President Danilo Medina via Tourism …

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The Ministry of the Environment has ordered that all infrastructure that impede free access and that are less than 60 meters from the sea, be removed. In addition, the Ministry ordered that structures any less than 30 meters from the edges of rivers, lakes, lagoons and reservoirs also be removed. In a document dated 6 …

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As part of measures taken to ensure the safety of their guests, Air Transat of Canada again launched an evacuation operation to get all of its travelers out of the Dominican Republic as Hurricane Maria spiraled through the Caribbean. Hurricane Maria devastated the island of Dominica, prior to causing damages in Puerto Rico and the …

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According to Francisco Holguin, from the National Meteorological Office (Onamet), Hurricane Maria will be much more dangerous for the country than Irma, even though Irma was a category 5 and Maria is a category 4 at the time of making the statement. It would later decline to a category 3 as it passed Hispaniola Island. …

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International weather forecaster reports proved to be accurate in regards to the track of Hurricane Maria and the Dominican Republic. Those in the country were able to sigh in relief when the country was spared the brunt of Hurricane Maria that had hit neighboring Puerto Rico as a catastrophic Hurricane 5. The government in the …

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President Danilo Medina pledged solidarity with the people of Mexico after the second major earthquake has affected the country. On the heels of a 8.1 earthquake on 8 September 2017, on the morning of 19 September 2017, a 7.1 earthquake has killed hundreds due to collapsing buildings further north near Mexico city. On his Twitter …

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The Cinemateca Dominicana presents a two week showing of a selection of Mexican films starting Tuesday, 19 September 2017 through Thursday, 4 October 2017. The showings are free. “Mexican Cinema from Yesterday and Today” is sponsored by the Embassy of Mexico in the Dominican Republic and the Films Agency (DGCine). Among the films is “Enamorada”, …

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25% of the children treated at the leading children’s hospital in Santo Domingo are Haitians, many of whom are residents in the country. However, many of the babies delivered by their mothers at the hospital had traveled from Haiti late in their pregnancies to give birth in the Dominican Republic. The director of the Robert …

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Dozens of local subcontractors for the Odebrecht construction company out of Brazil, involved in major high-level bribery of Dominican officials, have come out and told members of the press that the continued presence of Odebrecht in the Dominican Republic guarantees their projects will be well-built and comply with the time frame assigned for each project. …

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