2019 – Page 244

Hours after President Danilo Medina announced in his state of the nation address at the National Assembly on the morning of Wednesday, 27 February 2019 that crime was at an all-time record, a gang of assailants hit upon 11 people taking a stroll in the Las Praderas park area in the National District at around …

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Dangerous criminals members of the Puerto Rico drug trafficking gang Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Cantera (FARC) are suspect of hiding out in the Dominican Republic. As reported, 40 of the a 75 men criminal group were arrested and are in jail, Puerto Rican Federal prosecutor Rosa Emilia Rodríguez said on Wednesday, 27 February 2019. She …

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A Dodge Ram pick up was abandoned with 254 packages of a white substance suspect of being cocaine on Oscar de la Renta Expressway (Autovía del Coral) between Veron and Punta Cana in eastern La Altagracia province. The DNCD agents had ordered the vehicle to stop. As reported, officers of the DNCD were carrying out …

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The Third Court of Instruction for the National District has issued a demand before the office of the prosecutor for the Attorney General of the Republic to a formal accusation against the defendants within the next 15 days in the Yuniol Ramírez murder case. Judge Amauri Marcos Martinez Abreau, who presides over the court hearing …

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The leadership of the Dominican Medical Guild (CMD), including its president Dr. Wilson Roa, says the situation at the Jose Maria Cabral y Baez Regional University Public Hospital in Santiago is “dramatic, interminable and unbearable.” This was Roa’s comment after touring the largest public hospital in the Cibao, and certainly one of the largest in …

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Dr. Glorinil Mercedes Germán, sixth year resident at the Residencia Nacional de Cirugía Plástica, Reconstructiva y Estética (RENACIP) of the Hospital Salvador B. Gautier, a public hospital, in the National District won first place for her paper presented at the Plastic Surgery Residents contest organized as part of the activities of the XII Congreso de …

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Are unnecessary cardiac procedures being carried out in the Dominican Republic? An article in Hoy alerts that many cardiac stent implants may be unnecessary. Doctors suspect many procedures are to cash in on insurance coverage. They say the focus should be on prevention and early detection of cardiac problems to take other measures. While lifesaving, …

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In the Dominican Republic there do not exist the conditions for a 30% wage increase as proposed by the nation’s unions. According to Circe Almanzar, the executive vice-president of the Dominican Republic Association of Industries (AIRD), a 30% increase would generate a “very tricky situation” for industry and the business sector. Almanzar says that if …

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Thousands of residents in Greater Santo Domingo showed up on Sunday, 3 March 2019 to watch the national carnival parade that gathers carnival groups from all around the country. They were disappointed. A boycott to the organizers left city residents without being able to see many of the most popular carnival groups, a major disappointment …

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Reporter Carlos M. Batista of Diario Libre reveals just how much damage is being done to the very unique Los Haitises National Park. The park is protected under laws 202-04 and 64-00 as well as by Articles 14 and 16 of the Dominican Constitution. None of this really matters, reports Batista. He highlighted in the …

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