2018 – Page 273

Authorities in Puerto Plata province have recovered the body of the 16-year old teenager who drowned in the ocean off Cabarete beach on Sunday, 7 January 2018. The remains of Michael Mathis Polanco were found near a hotel. Apparently, strong waves and currents washed his body ashore. Members of Civil defense, the Red Cross, Ambar …

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Several people received burns yesterday, Tuesday 9 January 2018, when a gas cylinder exploded on the third floor of a guest house in Moca Street, in the Villas Agricolas sector of the National District. Preliminary reports said that three people, all Haitian, were injured and taken to the Francisco Gregorio Billini Hospital. Their conditions are …

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The private cemetery, Parque del Prado, that is located in Santo Domingo East, is promoting its pet cemetery area that has been open since 2011. To date, around 200 pets have been buried there and another 500 pets have been cremated by the cemetery. These are mostly dogs, cats, birds and turtles. Gina Victoriano Collado, …

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The Embassy of the Republic of China (Taiwan) is promoting that Dominicans apply for undergraduate, graduate and doctoral studies in Taiwan. The scholarships are granted by the International Cooperation and Development Fund (ICDF 2018). The scholarships are open to Dominican nationals older than 18 years with a minimum high school education. They range from four …

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The Association of Hotels and Tourism in the Dominican Republic (Asonahores) will be meeting with the experts at the Ministry of Tourism (Mitur) to look for solutions to assure the continuation of what they call the “successful model of tourism development”. Asonahores had protested a recent resolution of the Ministry of Tourism that authorized high-rise …

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Senator Adriano Sánchez Roa (PLD-Elías Piña) has informed that the funds for feasibility studies and the subsequent construction of the Artibonite hydroelectric plant in Pedro Santana, a border town in Elías Piña province on the border with Haiti, have been included in the 2018 general budget at the initiative of President Danilo Medina. Senator Sánchez …

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The web page for the Chamber of Deputies was hacked on Tuesday, 9 January 2018, by unknown “pirates” who invited readers to take part in the next activity of the Green March movement that is scheduled for 28 March 2018. The movement protests corruption and impunity in government. The hackers left behind the video of …

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Political considerations seem to have again prevailed to impede legislators from passing the key political and electoral bills that have languished in the National Congress for dozens of years. Political differences among leading politicians, and this time around primarily between dissident groups of the ruling PLD party, have stagnated these bills that would better organize …

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The Ministry of Culture is opening bookstore kiosks nationwide and the pilot plan was launched during the Regional Azua Book Fair and also at Calle El Conde (between Hostos and Meriño) during the Christmas holidays. The book kiosk is now permanently open at the Ministry of Culture headquarters on the Malecón for sales to the …

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Starting Tuesday, 9 January 2018, agents from the Metropolitan Transport Authority (AMET) began to impound vehicles circulating without this year’s taxation sticker, known here as the “marbete”. AMET spokesman, Colonel Rafael Tejada Baldera, said that all agents had been instructed to stop and fine drivers of vehicles without the sticker, and that the vehicle would …

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