2018 – Page 24

The public debt in the Dominican Republic is 51.6% of the Gross Domestic Product, according to official records, as a headline story reports in Diario Libre. The non-financial public debt and the Central Bank debt are calculated to be US$40.64 billion, which does not include the US$3.85 billion in additional debt accumulated so far this …

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On Sunday, 25 November 2018, various events were held to commemorate the killings, 58 years ago, of the Mirabal sisters and their driver, Rufino de la Cruz. History tells that the sisters and their driver were murdered on the orders of the dictator Rafael Leónidas Trujillo Molina on 25 November 1960. It is believed that …

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On Monday, 26 November 2018, the foreign ministers of Russia and the Dominican Republic signed an agreement for visa-free travel between both countries. The agreement was signed by Sergey Lavrov for Russia and Miguel Vargas Maldonado of the Dominican Republic at the Ministry of Foreign Relations in Moscow, Russia, as reported by the Russian news …

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This is the most closely contested baseball regular season that anyone can remember. The six Dominican teams have been switching back and forth the lead but keeping within two games of each other. Any of the six teams could still make the next phase, the Christmas time round robin. As of games played on Sunday, …

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The Police has identified as 30-year old Yonaika Elizabeth Espinosa Beltré, the corpse of a woman found in a bag behind the Máximo Gómez National Cemetery in Villa Juana, National District. The woman resided in Las Matas de Farfán, San Juan de la Maguana province. An autopsy was ordered. Read more in Spanish: El Caribe …

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A tragic accident occurred on Thanksgiving Day marring the celebration for many in Casa de Campo community. Villa owner French racecar driver 28-year old Richard Philippe and his guests, his grandfather 78-year old Louis Paul Guitay, Swiss architect Jean-Pierre Emery and Geraldine Moschovis died in a helicopter crash when making their way back from Rio …

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He had been feverish for two weeks but still had plans for Thanksgiving, but didn’t make it. The 47-year old first Dominican-American New York State senator, José R. Peralta was taken on Wednesday, 21 November in the evening to Elmhurst Hospital Center in Queens where he died. It is expected that an autopsy will determine …

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An angry mob of people nearly lynched an alleged criminal in the sector of Maranatha in the tourist community of Sosua. The unfortunate individual was severely beaten after he had been trapped stealing electric wiring and cables. The thief’s identity is still unknown. After he was caught, his hands and feet were tied and he …

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Former Migration Director José Ricardo Taveras says that Art. 15 of the Migration Law 285-04 reads that foreigners with criminal records are banned from legal entry to the country. He made the comment when interviewed by Héctor Herrera Cabral for D´Agenda on Channel 11 on Sunday, 25 November 2018. He was referring to the government …

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The Fuerza Nacional Progresista (FNP) rejected the pre-candidate Cristóbal Rodríguez as a candidate for the Constitutional Court replacement. The political party says that Rodríguez “was the principal expert that testified before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, supporting the slanderous anti-nationalist arguments that allowed this court to dare order the Dominican State to revoke Constitutional …

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