2019 – Page 230

The Dominican Republic is losing territory to Haitian migration. As reported in the Listín Diario, a motion in the Senate presented by the senator Adriano Sánchez Roa for Elías Piña has called for an exhaustive review of the border markers to comply with the Dominican-Haitian Border Treaty of 1929 and its review dated 1936. There …

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The Central Electoral Board (JCE) proposed to political parties that these cover 40% of the cost of participating in the simultaneous primary day to choose their presidential candidates on 6 October 2019. According to JCE president, Julio César Castaños Guzmán, the PLD, the PRM, the PRD and AlPais will need to pay RD$380 million to …

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President of the Audit Committee, Hugo Alvarez has revealed that 3,498 government officials, most municipal, have not made the legal declaration of their assets as laid down in Law 311-14 and due to this they are subject to sanctions. However, he said that all of the officials in central government had submitted their reports and …

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Electoral Regime Law 15-19 prohibits Dominicans with dual nationality who have served in the Armed Forces in another country from voting in elections in the Dominican Republic, be they municipal, congressional or presidential. They are also banned from standing as deputies overseas. This means that those Dominicans who live in the United States cannot vote …

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Administrative Minister of the Presidency José Ramón Peralta announced that new metro cars are scheduled to arrive from August to September. The cars are needed due to the service demand of the Santo Domingo Metro. They will be added to Line 2 of the Santo Domingo Metro. Read more in Spanish:Diario Libre 20 March 2019

Foreign Relations Minister Miguel Vargas Maldonado has signed an aviation agreement with his Peruvian counterpart, Néstor Popolizi. Vargas Maldonado says the open skies agreement will increase air travel between both countries. The agreement was signed at the end of consultations between the two countries that took place in Peru. Also present at the meeting was …

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Anthony Santos was honored during the 35th Soberano Awards for his contributions to positioning bachata as an international dance music. The Dominican Republic has requested that the Unesco list Dominican bachata as intangible cultural heritage. Santos received the honor from Emely Baldera, president of the Dominican Show Business Writers Association and Franklin León, president of …

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Show business’s big night is tonight. The El Soberano Awards are being televised from 6pm on Telemicro, Channel 5. A pre-show is set for 6pm to be followed with the red carpet show from 7-8pm and the actual awards ceremony starts at 8pm. The red carpet hosts this year are Luz García, Reading Pantanelón and …

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Restaurants will argue the crab or lobster they are serving are from their frozen inventories, but the best way people can contribute to keeping the species available is to respect the ban. Order something else during the established closed season. Lobster and crab fishing is banned regionally from 1 March to 30 June 2019 in …

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On Monday, 18 March 2019, five people died and more than a dozen were injured in several traffic accidents in Puerto Plata. Hotel employee Juan Eduardo Céspedes Henríquez, died of head injuries when his motorcycle was hit by a vehicle on the Gran Parada-Montellano road. The second victim has not yet been identified but was …

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