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Members of the Unión Nacional de Productores de Harina (UNPIH) complained the Medina administration is in arrears with them for RD$700 million. The union groups 204 companies that supply primarily bread and crackers for public school breakfasts and snacks to the Instituto Nacional de Bienestar Estudiantil (Inabie). The union said they will no longer deliver …

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President Danilo Medina was in Barahona on Wednesday, 6 February where he participated in the ground-breaking for the construction of Ciudad Esperanza, a 410 apartment government housing development. He also participated in the inaugural of three public schools and a day care center, a RD$150 million investment. Speaking at the inaugural, he highlighted the challenges …

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Tickets to see urban artist Ozuna perform at Altos de Chavon in La Romana are costing up to RD$22,000, Diario Libre reports. Ozuna is scheduled to perform at the 5,000-person amphitheater on Holy Saturday, 20 April. Tickets went on sale online starting at RD$3,865 and running through RD$22,000 for a seat in front stage. The …

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PRM presidential pre-candidate Luis Abinader, in a campaign event on 5 February 2019, asked the question that is in the minds of many Dominicans. He said the government needs to investigate who are the godfathers of the capos that have been arrested in the Dominican Republic where they had made significant investments. “It is not …

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The spouse of former Minister of Finance and administrator of the Banco de Reservas Vicente Bengoa has gone public with a family dispute. Tania Cordero, who has two minor children with Bengoa and has been married to Bengoa for 12 years, said that after the brain stroke her husband suffered in 2017, the elder children …

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The toll of mostly young Dominicans that have been crippled by traffic accidents in the past five years is estimated at up to 7,000, according to a report in El Dia. The Dario Contreras and Ney Arias Lora public hospitals, where most trauma victims in Greater Santo Domingo are taken, report registries of over 120,000 …

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President Danilo Medina visited PLD legislator for Santo Domingo East Karen Ricardo on Monday, 4 February 2019, shortly after she was taken out of the intensive care unit at the Dario Contreras Trauma Hospital where she was interned after a deadly accident on Saturday. The media has focused on the sufferings of the family. Ricardo …

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Fundación Acción Verde has gone public again with its criticism to the plant nurseries project that the Ministry of Environment has announced supposedly to benefit 350 farmers that have been evicted from farming in the Parque Nacional Valle Nuevo in La Vega province high mountains. The environmental protection non-profit says that the protected area does …

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Residents in Villa Gonzalez in Santiago protested on Monday, 4 February 2019 the exploitation of the gravel mine in Loma El Boquerón, near the Pico Diego de Ocampo protected area. They call for the intervention of the Ministry of Environment. They blame the construction company, Constructora Mar that reportedly has a permit issued by the …

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