2017 – Page 93

The United States’ State Department has warned Americans to rethink any travel plans to Cuba, Haiti and the Dominican Republic, due to the forecast impact of Hurricane Irma. The US State Department has authorized all government employees and their families to leave these three countries should they wish to. Read more in Spanish: El Dia …

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The supermarkets in Greater Santo Domingo, and those of major cities nationwide, have been flooded with customers stocking up before the arrival of Hurricane Irma. Irma is due to hit the north coast of the Dominican Republic on Thursday, 7 September 2017, and Dominicans are preparing to bunker in on that day. Large lines were …

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Several airlines have cancelled flights on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday (6-9 September 2017) due to the passing of Hurricane Irma. Flights into all of the country’s international airports are affected – Santo Domingo (SDQ), Santiago (STI), Punta Cana (PUJ), La Romana (LRM), and Samana (AZS) and Puerto Plata (POP). Passengers should contact the airlines prior …

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Air Transat has launched an airlift to get its travelers out of the Dominican Republic ahead of the arrival of Hurricane Irma. The Montreal-based airline had plans to sending 10 aircraft to the country on Wednesday, 6 September 2017 – seven to Punta Cana, two to Puerto Plata and one to Samana. Air Transat said …

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Gloria Ceballos, director of the National Meteorological Office, said that during the morning of Thursday, 7 September, 2017, Hurricane Irma should speed up, which is good news for the country. The faster the hurricane moves west, the least damage it will cause. Ceballos says the hurricane is likely to stay on the forecast track passing …

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President Danilo Medina and the entire country are following the latest happenings and news regarding the passing of Hurricane Irma. The storm is expected to be felt in the country in the early morning of Thursday, 7 September 2017 as it moves over from Puerto Rico. Communications’ Director, Roberto Rodríguez Marchena, said President Danilo Medina …

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As Hurricane Irma moves on a WNW track as many experts had forecast, the Dominican Republic breathed in the relief that it would not be hit by catastrophic damages of a category five hurricane. As of the 11pm advisory by the US National Hurricane Center, Hurricane Irma was tracking at 19.4N and 66.8W with maximum …

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The 8th International Fine Arts Film Festival opens at theaters in Santo Domingo (Novocentro and Downtown Center), La Marina in Casa de Campo and Plaza Internacional in Santiago on 28 September 2017. The festival is best known for bringing international films that otherwise Dominican audiences would not see. The film festival is simultaneously carried out …

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Major rainstorms and flooding expected to come with the passing of Hurricane Irma on Thursday has led promoters of the Maroon 5 concert at the Hard Rock Punta Cana to suspend the show. The Maroon 5 show would have been on Saturday, 9 September 2017. A press release to the effect was issued by the …

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The most recent action by US President Donald Trump instructing the Congress to create compensating legislation for the so-called unconstitutional DACA executive order created by President Obama possibly threatens the continued studies of hundreds of Dominican students in the United States who are undocumented aliens. Known as “dreamers” these children who came to the United …

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