2018 – Page 21

A large delegation of 101 Dominican athletes living in Puerto Rico is coming for the XIV Juegos Nacionales Hermanas Mirabal organized by the Ministry of Sports. The games will be held 6 to 16 December 2018, at venues in north and central provinces. Puerto Rico will compete as the 8th Zone in the sports games …

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Dominican artistic skaters on wheels six year old Daniela and her sister eight year old Letizia García Medina, won gold in the Third International Panama Open Artistic Skating on Wheels Competition held in Panama. Dominican Sofía Carballo Sigarreta won silver in the event. They competed against skaters from Uruguay, Colombia, Chile and Panama during the …

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Celebrating “Giving Tuesday” on 27 November 2018, JetBlue, the largest carrier serving the Dominican Republic, flew a plane full of do-gooders to the Dominican Republic. The volunteers were winners of the airline’s #CheckInForGood contest and had agreed to join JetBlue on a volunteer trip during JetBlue For Good Month without knowing the destination. The 50 …

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The Jarabacoa Municipal Fire Station now has a good fire engine, donated by the government of Japan. The donation was formalized during a contract-signing at the Embassy of Japan. The contract was signed by Jarabacoa Fire Intendent Julio Antonio Ramírez Tejada and Japan Ambassador in the Dominican Republic, Hiroyuki Makiuchi. Attending was Ronaldo Torres, international …

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A prominent legislator does not feel Anthony Rios should be honored by Congress and the controversy has become a trending topic in the media. Ruling PLD party legislator Manuel Diaz spoke up recently sharing his opinion that Rios was undeserving of a congressional recognition, citing concerns about the artists personal life story. Rios has admitted …

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Several city governments have accumulated a debt of more than RD$6 billion with the social security treasury and now are requesting amnesty in the form of an amendment in upcoming changes to Social Security Law 87-01. Among the city governments requesting debt relief is San Cristobal, that is in arrears for more than RD$1.2 billion …

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Gerdau Metaldom won the Adoexpo Award for Excellence during the Dominican Association of Exporters end of year 32nd awards ceremony. The award was received by Gerdau Metaldom’s commercial director, José Miguel Vega. Others receiving awards were Grupo Bocel for excellence in industrial exports and Baxter Healthcare in the duty free industrial free zone category. AMR …

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Technicians from Grupo Jaragua, the leading southwestern environmental conservation group, accompanied Diario Libre reporter Marvin del Cid into the Jaragua-Bahoruco-Enriquillo Biosphere Reserve so he could see for himself the depredation ongoing in the important diversity reserve to the indifference of the Ministry of Environment and other local authorities responsible for the conservation of the protected …

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The Dominican Republic authorities have not been available for comment on whether the country will sign the 2018 the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration in during the Intergovernmental Conference to Adopt the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration scheduled to take place in Marrakesh, Morocco on the 10th and 11th …

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The Dominican-China Chamber of Commerce and Investment announced meetings at the Radisson Hotel in Santo Domingo between a Chinese mission of 40 businesspeople that are here to explore business deals during a Economic Cooperation and Investment meeting between Hubei Province, China and the Dominican Republic. Jose Manuel Armenteros, of the Chamber of Commerce, said the …

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