2017 – Page 91

A 42-year old Colombian woman identified as Maria Andrea García Osorio died after falling from the second floor of Sherry IV located on Av. Enriquillo. She worked for a United Nations agency in the country. She is suspect of having committed suicide. Her case will be added to the growing number of suicide deaths in …

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70.73% of the graduates in the Pontifical Madre y Maestra Catholic University (PUCMM) 63rd commencement ceremony on Saturday, 9 September 2017 were women, continuing the trend that began many years ago. Of the 1,107 new graduates, 783 were women and 324 men. The commencement marked the 55th anniversary of the largest private university in the …

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The coordinator of the Citizen Participation (Participacion Ciudadana), a civic watchdog group, Patricia Sosa, lashed out at Dominican judiciary for the release on bail of the two last individuals accused in the Odebrecht scandal: former Minister of Public Works and secretary of Finances of the ruling PLD political party Victor Diaz Rua and Odebrecht commercial …

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National District Mayor David Collado announced a brigade of 110 workers would be dispatched to the riverside slum area of La Ciénaga to avoid the spreading of disease due to the expected rising river waters of the storm that passed to the north of the island. Prior to the hurricane, Collado visited the area on …

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The president of the Dominican Agribusiness Board (JAD), Osmar Benítez reported there were major damage reported to plantain and banana farms in the northwest and rice farms in the northeast with the passing of wind gusts and intense rains brought by Hurricane Irma and its extensive rain bands brushed the north coast. Plantain farms affected …

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A community of around 52 zinc-roofed houses that were seriously damaged by the wind gusts and surf surge as Hurricane Irma cruised by the north coast of the Dominican Republic will be rebuilt in another area of Nagua municipality. The houses were located in Boba in the La Gorda municipality in Nagua, María Trinidad Sanchez …

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The Ministry of Foreign Relations is in charge of coordinating national efforts to assist Dominican expatriates affected by Irma in the Caribbean. Thousands of Dominicans live in Turks & Caicos, Antigua & Barbuda and Sint Maarten and St. Martin, as well as the US (St. Thomas and St. John) and British Virgin Islands, islands that …

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In its Sunday, 10 September 2017 bulletin issued at 11am, the Center for Emergency Operations (COE) reported that only five provinces in the Dominican Republic continue under alert. Of these, Montecristi continues in yellow alert. Montecristi was in part affected by the high wind gusts and the release of reservoir waters in order to prepare …

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The Italian operatic pop trio, with baritone Gianluca Ginoble and tenors, Piero Barone and Ignazio Boschetto will be performing at the Palacio de los Deportes of the Juan Pablo Duarte Olympic Center this coming Wednesday, 13 September 2017. The stop in Santo Domingo is part of a Latin American tour by the famous young lyrical …

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Guzmán Ariza law firm is in its 90th year. For the anniversary, the firm celebrated a mass at the Santo Domingo Cathedral, officiated by Monsignor Jesus María de Jesús Moya and father Nelson Rafael Clark. “We are honored by being able to celebrate with all of you these 90 year of success and growth,” highlighted …

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