2019 – Page 219

The Ministry of Agriculture has opened the Oficina para el Registro de Variedades y Obtenciones Vegetales (Orevado). The office is located at Km. Duarte Km 6-1/2, Los Jardines del Norte at the Ministry of Agriculture headquarters in Santo Domingo. The office offers support to people working to develop new plant crops, that are innovating in …

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The Ministry of Higher Education (MESCyT) announced that children of Dominican expats that were born in the United States will be able to apply for MESCyT scholarships. Dominican consul in New York, Carlos Castillo made the announcement that scholarships for masters, specialties and doctoral studies are now available for the children of Dominican residents abroad. …

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President Danilo Medina announced the new Center for Psychosocial Rehabilitation and Human Development (Reside), as a dependency of the National Health Service (SNS). The center will work to rehabilitate citizens with mental disabilities and promote their harmonious reintegration into society as productive human beings. Reside is located in La Nueva Barquita in Sabana Perdida, in …

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On Monday morning, 1 April 2019, one person died and several were injured in a traffic accident that happened in the Las Americas Expressway tunnel. Among those injured was an agent from the National Police’s Directorate-General Office of Land Traffic and Transport Safety (Digesett) and several people who were in a truck full of plantains. …

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Three bodies were discovered inside a vehicle in the community of El Pino, La Vega, and according to the local prosecutor, Aura Luz Garcia, they were executed. The victims are 17-year-old Miguel Ángel Acevedo Martínez, 15-year old Carla Mariela Fernández Martínez, and 28-year old Santo Domingo resident, Miguel Hernández Delana Rondón. The bodies of the …

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On Monday, 1 April 2019, several people were injured in a multiple traffic accident on the highway from La Romana to San Pedro de Macorís. The accident happened early in the morning and involved a tractor trailer, a bus, an SUV and a truck. They collided and one vehicle was crushed against the security barrier …

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A National Police captain has shot and killed a man, shot and seriously injured his partner and shot and injured two other people in a bar in Katanga de Los Mina. He was later found dead in a cabaña in Juan Dolio. The officer was identified as Luis Antonio Aybar Rivera who killed 57-year-old José …

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On Saturday, 30 March 2019, the Dominican Armada seized 645 kg of marijuana distributed in 151 packages. The packages were being transported by four individuals who tried to enter Dominican territory onboard a boat that had docked at Cabo Pequeño, off Isla Beata (Southwest). The individuals fled by abandoning their boat after being spotted by …

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Leaders of the Dominican Revolutionary Party (PRD), a strong ally to the ruling Dominican Liberation Party (PLD) party, rejected the announcement by party president, Foreign Minister Miguel Vargas Maldonado that the party would not be participating in open primaries to choose their presidential candidate. Party dissident Guido Gómez Mazara said: “It is an act of …

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Businessman Ángel Rondón, the principal accused in the US$92 million Odebrecht bribery case, began his defense on Monday, 1 April 2019, before Supreme Court of Justice judge Francisco Ortega Polanco. Rondón has always maintained that the money he received from Odebrecht was actually payment for his services to the company and was not for bribes …

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