2019 – Page 215

Legendary contemporary musician Juan Luis Guerra has shared the music video of the first single of his new record production on Friday, 5 April 2019. It is called “Kitipun.” The track is now available on all digital platform as #Kitipun. The album is scheduled to be released in May and will be his 14th. The …

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Could the rural communities of Santiago province be the Dominican Blue Zone, or area where conditions lead the population to live long lives? Recently the community of Hato del Yaque in Santiago met to honor 118-year old Juana Francisca Fernández, considered the oldest living Dominican. They wanted to celebrate after losing another record-setting Dominican, Jaime …

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The National Hurricane Center in Miami, Flora has issued its list of the 21 names to be used for tropical storms and hurricanes this season, which begins on 1 June and ends on 30 November. These names are from a list that began their rotation in 1953 and will begin anew in 2025. Names of …

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The president of the Dominican Medical Guild (CMD), Dr. Wilson Roa, said that after the rains that have fallen recently, the nation faces an outbreak of infectious diseases, such as malaria, dengue, and leptospirosis, because of the onset of more mosquitoes, and flood waters containing rodent feces. Roa forecast an increase in persons of the …

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The spouse of Foreign Relations Vice Minister Marjorie Espinosa was arrested at the Ministry of Foreign Relations on Friday, 5 April 2019. He is Police Lieutenant Carlos Bernabel Ventura Cruz, who was arrested after a complaint placed by his wife to the Attorney General’s Office. Espinosa is in charge of consular and migration affairs at …

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The alleged perpetrator of the triple homicide that shocked the Santiago area last week, because it involved a young teenage girl (16), has turned himself into the authorities. The three victims were found in a car abandoned on the Autopista Duarte near the Juan Bosch Trauma Hospital in the El Pino section of La Vega. …

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Dominican authorities arrested a French citizen on warrants stemming from charges of fraud, money laundering and identity theft originating in France. Robert Phillipe Moulis, 63, was picked up on the highway between Cabarete and Sosua in Puerto Plata on the north coast by agents of the National Drug Control Agency (DNCD) acting in coordination with …

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Ministry of Defense, National Drug Control Agency (DNCD), Dominican Institute of Civil Aviation (IDAC) and Attorney General Office reported on Saturday, 6 April 2019, on the landing of a passenger plane on Friday evening in a cane field in La Altagracia province in the east. The case is under investigation. The authorities say that what …

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A court in Aix-en-Provence, France, sentenced two pilots that would have transported to France a shipment of 680kg of cocaine on board a Falcon private jet flight from Punta Cana International Airport to six years in jail. The case dates back to March 2013, when local narcotics officers detected the cocaine in 26 suitcases on …

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The world authorities on non-marine arthropods and amber are in Santo Domingo for the 8th International Conference on Fossil Insects, Arthropods and Amber (Fossils x3), from 8-14 April 2019. The venue is the auditorium of the Centro de Telecomunicaciones on Calle Arzobispo Meriño, in the Colonial City. The scientific conference is scheduled for 8-12 April …

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