2018 – Page 22

The Ministry of Public Works reported the reconstruction of 96 kilometers of roads and sidewalks in three northwestern provinces. Deputy Public Works Minister Ramón Pepín said the roads are: Monción-El Rubio (21 km), El Cacique-Los Quemados (5 km) in Santiago Rodríguez province. Mao-Guayubín (42km) in Valverde. And Mao to Esperanza in Montecristi (10 km) and …

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This is one of the most contested of regular seasons of the Dominican Winter Professional Baseball Championship. The teams have been shuffling positions in the standings among themselves, keeping at most four games between the first and last place of the regular season of the six-team tournament that ends on 17 December 2018. Now a …

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The traditional Coca Cola Christmas tree was lit on Sunday, 25 November 2018, on the grounds of the Plaza España facing the Alcazar de Colón in the Colonial City. Coke is manufactured in the Dominican Republic by Bepensa, a Mexican company. For the occasion, a section of the A section of the Nutcracker Suite Ballet …

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Two travelers from the Dominican Republic were arrested at Logan International Airport in Boston, United States, on Saturday 24 November 2018 after they were found to be in possession of 770 grams of cocaine. A suspicious passenger, later identified as Vincent Antonio Jimenez Sanchez, 47, was referred to secondary screening shortly after arriving in Boston …

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Sundays are considered by Dominicans as days of rest and peace for many, but Sundays are actually the day when the highest number of homicides take place, according to a statistical report on the homicides in the country from January to September this year. The data was provided by the Observatory of Citizen Safety and …

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What is described as the world’s most advanced wearable assistive technology, the OrCam, is now available at the Centro Oftalmológico de Santo Domingo, a leading Santo Domingo city medical center. The artificial vision system sells abroad for US$2,500 to US$3,500. It is promoted as making the world accessible for the blind and visually impaired people …

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A National District Appeal court has confirmed preventive custody for Air Force Colonel Carlos Piccini Núñez, implicated in the case of the bribes paid by the Brazilian company Embraer for the purchase of eight Super Tucano aircraft. The airplanes were purchased to police Dominican skies to reduce drug trafficking. Piccini, who has now been in …

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An editorial in El Dia on 28 November 2018 raises the national concern over the efforts of the Medina administration under Foreign Relations Miguel Vargas Maldonado to sign visa free travel relations with countries known for 24/7 security issues. Now, Dominicans can travel visa free to 27 countries around the world. “Many of these are …

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According to the Ministry of Public Health, there has been an increase in the cases of dengue and malaria, over the last four weeks. Both tropical diseases are transmitted by mosquitoes. In the last four weeks, health officials have registered 176 probable and confirmed case of dengue, a 21% increase over last year. The epidemiological …

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The main topics on the minds of Dominicans for the 2020 general election campaigns are corruption, the Odebrecht corruption case, the management of Haitian immigration, rising drug trafficking, rising cost of fuel and the rising public debt, says a feature in Diario Libre in its 27 November 2018 edition. The opposition parties and the Green …

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