2018 – Page 218

The concerns of visitors to the Dominican Republic about roaming charges could soon become a thing of the past. Representatives of 19 countries of the Americas agreed to end roaming charges for cell phones users. The agreement was announced in a meeting of the VII Assembly of the Inter-American Telecommunications Commission (Citel) in Buenos Aires, …

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Only 661 graduates of Dominican universities passed the standardized national test that establishes the candidates have sufficient knowledge and skills to practice medicine at public hospitals in the Dominican Republic. Some 4,624 graduate physicians sat for the exams last month. Wilson Roa, president of the Dominican Medical Guild (CMD), said the low pass rate is …

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The executive director of the National Council of Free Zones, Luisa Fernández has announced that in 2017, the export industrial free zone sector grew by 4.4% over 2016 and that 71 new parks were opened with 665 companies in operation. A report on the accounts for 2017 showed that the investments in the Free Zones …

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On Tuesday, 20 March 2018, President Danilo Medina inaugurated the fourth factory of the multinational company Medtronic that manufactures high technology medical devices in eastern Santo Domingo. This investment is reported to be US$46 million. Around 450 new jobs were created at the newest plant located in the San Isidro Free Zone factory. Overall, the …

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The National Meteorological Office (ONAMET) has announced that the warm weather will continue as the wind is coming from the east southeast, due to a system of high pressure. However, a weather front located to the north east of the country over the Atlantic Ocean will bring thunderstorms. In the bulletin issued on Monday, 19 …

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A police private was the person who killed student Albert Ramírez Alcántara one day before his graduation at the Universidad del Caribe (Unicaribe). Nieves Luis Sierra Gómez, who fled the scene of the crime with the victim’s cellphone, used his service weapon to kill Alcantara. Police director, Ney Aldrin Bautista, announced at a press conference …

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The father of Diana Alejandrina Batista Céspedes (Elaine) has been killed by a shot to the head. Batista Cespedes, was extradited from Spain and sentenced to 30 years in jail for ordering an act of arson to burn down a home where four people died in the municipality of Tamayo, in Bahoruco province. Saulo Batista …

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The former mayor of La Romana, Juan Antonio (Tony) Adames has been sentenced to two years in jail and fined RD$4 million for the violation of Law 3143 regarding nonpayment for work carried out by citizen Luis Alberto Castillo Cedano. The sentence was imposed by Judge Esmirna Ortega, in La Romana, where the prosecutors were …

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The National Drug Control Agency (DNCD), with the help of the Public Prosecution Service, has dismantled a drug trafficking network in Jarabacoa, La Vega province, which was supplying the local market. During the raid, more than 1,000 portions of different drugs were confiscated with the total weight exceeding one and a half kilos, and three …

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Father Rogelio Cruz has admitted to declaring more than a dozen children as his, but he denies they are his biological children as his own Salesiana Order, part of the Catholic Church, is now stating. However, Father Rogelio said there are other priests and even bishops who have sons and daughters, and he has evidence …

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