2019 – Page 241

The heads of security at international airports have been changed. Brigadier General Aracelis Castillo de la Cruz, director of the Specialized Corps of Airport Security and Civil Aviation (Cesac), said that the changes are routine. • Colonel Juan Ramón Lizardo is now director of security at the La Isabela International Airport. • Colonel Roilan Santos …

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Environmental specialist José Luis Nazario Lora is calling for a combined effort from all sectors involved to come up with a definitive solution for the management of solid waste in the province of Puerto Plata and avoid the damage the current situation is causing to the population and tourism in the area due to the …

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The Dominican Consulate in New York has announced the launch of a new online platform to facilitate the process for obtaining Dominican citizenship for those born in the United States. Consul General Carlos Castillo launched the site YoSoyDominicano.org during a ceremony to pay homage to the Fathers of the Homeland, Juan Pablo Duarte, Matías Ramón …

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The political organization Bien Común criticized the Medina administration for allotting RD$1.89 billion in 2019 for events and festivities and only RD$642.6 million to the Neonatal Maternal Health program. The organizations criticized that on average in January, 56 newborns died as well as four women due to pregnancy-related complications, according to a recent bulletin from …

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The negligence by the National Transit and Ground Transportation Institute (Intrant) in applying Ground Transport Law 63-17 continues to result in traffic accidents. El Día says that the inobservance of the law and lack of state supervision of vehicles in circulation is why tragedies such as that of a bus carrying around 60 passengers crashed …

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The director of the National Health Service (SNS), Chanel Rosa Chupany says that the 30% decline in neonatal deaths is evidence that the new protocols in place are working. He said that during the four weeks of January there were 224 deaths of babies in their first 28 days, that is 56 less than the …

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The Ministry of Public Works has announced several leading construction projects to be started in 2019. For Greater Santo Domingo: • The overpass for Isabel Aguilar and 27 de Febrero. • The 6km long four-lane Los Alcarrizos bypass (La Avenida Nuevo Camino) from Puente Blanco to Km. 14 Duarte Highway, with an exit to the …

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National District Mayor David Collado and UN Development Program resident representative signed an agreement to expand the transparency and institutional strengthening efforts at the capital city government. The program is part of the ongoing “Santo Domingo Siempre Transparente” (Always Transparent Santo Domingo) that extends now into 2023. The agreement calls for the managerial transformation of …

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Former Vice President Rafael Alburquerque called for the removal of Attorney General Jean Alain Rodríguez for his questioning of Judge Miriam Germán Brito. “The country is outraged by the affront perpetrated on an icon of justice, as is Judge Miriam Germán,” he said. He said the questioning showed evidence of espionage and great arrogance on …

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Constitutional Court Judge Katia Miguelina Jiménez has announced that she has withdrawn her candidacy for the position of Supreme Court of Justice judge due to the disrespectful and humiliating treatment by Attorney General Jean Alain Rodríguez towards Judge Miriam Germán Brito during the latter’s assessment hearing by the members of the National Magistracy Council (CNM). …

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