2018 – Page 208

The director of the Metro Office (Opret), Manuel Antonio Saleta, told Hoy reporters that the work on the 2B Line of the Santo Domingo Metro is 95% completed and the line should be in service by this coming July 2018. The new line will connect eastern and western Santo Domingo across the Ozama River, extending …

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The Ministry of Environment announced that the buffer zones of protected areas, now set at 300 meters, may be expanded if studies conclude that larger buffer zones are justified, as reported in Hoy. Previously, Decree 571-09 had limited the buffer zones to 300 meters. The new policy seeks to contribute to the integrity and restoration …

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The National Meteorological Office (Onamet) has announced that due to the approaching of a medium and high level weather front, over the western part of Haiti, there will be rains along with electrical storms in the north east, southeast, north and the Central Mountain range. In addition temperatures will be pleasant, especially during the night, …

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In 2017, the Migration Agency has detained and deported 57,687 Haitians who were in the country illegally. The report also said that some 8,912,728 people entered the country and 9,086,548 left via airports, ports and land. The report covered the period from 1 January 2017 to 1 December 2017. Among those deported are 57,687 Haitians, …

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The review of coercive measures for the former police Lieutenant, Fernando de los Santos, better known as ‘La Soga’, has been postponed to 11 May 2018. He returned to a Santiago court today which handed down three months in preventive custody in November 2017, supposedly as he was linked to the deaths of Elvis Valerio …

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Controversial Father Rogelio Cruz denied on Monday, 2 April 2018, that he had been expelled from the Salesian Order of the Roman Catholic Church. He said he has not received any notification from the order. “On 7 July 1990, I was told I would be a priest for life, and thus they can expel me …

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The Ministry of Public Works and Communications has once again announced the closure of tunnels and elevated sections in both directions, beginning yesterday, Monday 2 April 2018. Today, Tuesday, the elevated section of John F. Kennedy Avenue with Doctor Defilló as well as the Las Americas tunnel will be closed for cleaning and collection of …

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Smoke billowed from the burning garbage at the Duquesa dumping grounds in northern Santo Domingo on Monday, 2 April 2018, in the early morning, affecting over two million persons who live within the Greater Santo Domingo area. The same effects of the billowing smoke were then felt again on the early morning of Tuesday, 3 …

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The Attorney General’s office has announced that they are looking for seven adolescents who escaped from the Integrated Center for Juvenile Delinquents known as “Ciudad del Niño” that is located in Caballona, Santo Domingo West. A press release from the public prosecution service said that a security guard shot fatally shot one of the escapees. …

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According to an official from the National Confederation of Agricultural Producers (Confenagro) Dominican exports of avocados were valued at more than US$30 million last year, and increase of more than 150% since 2006 when they were scarcely US$11 million in export sales. The data was shared by Confenagro during the meeting when the National Avocado …

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