2019News

Italian and Dominican art exhibition at Centro Cultural Reservas

On occasion of the 500th year of ties between Italy and Santo Domingo, the Italian Embassy presents an art exhibition at the Centro Cultural Banreservas in the Colonial City. The anniversary commemorates Alessandro Geraldini, the Italian bishop responsible for the construction of the Santo Domingo Cathedral in the 1500s. The exhibition is “Travel through Emotion …
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CNCO comes to Santo Domingo

The Latin pop band CNCO, made up by Richard Camacho (Dominican Republic), Christopher Velez (Ecuador), Joel Pimentel (Mexico), Erick Brian Colon (Cuba) and Zabdiel de Jesus (Puerto Rico) will perform in Santo Domingo at the Colieo Teo Cruz on 7 December 2019. The performance is part of their CNCO World Tour 2019. 20 November 2019
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Expo China at the Ministry of Foreign Relations

During the opening of the People’s Republic of China Trade Expo, Foreign Minister Miguel Vargas Maldonado reaffirmed the Dominican Republic’s commitment to strengthen bilateral ties with the People’s Republic of China to continue to generate benefits for the citizens of both states. The exhibition is open at the Ministry of Foreign Relations Convention Center until …
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TSE says Fernández can run for President for another political party

The Superior Electoral Court (TSE) declared on Monday, 18 November 2019 that there is no constitutional or legal impediment for former President Leonel Fernandez to be nominated as presidential candidate for the 2020 elections by the Dominican Workers Party (PTD). The legal recourse had been presented to the TSE by Francisco Antonio Ventura Felipe in …
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JCE throws the ball back to the Constitutional Court

On the morning of Monday, 18 November 2019, the president of the Central Electoral Board (JCE), Julio César Castaños Guzmán had accepted the instructions from the Constitutional Court (TC) that it needed to decide by 8 December whether former President Leonel Fernández could run for president in 2020. Talking with journalists, Castaños Guzmán explained that …