2019 – Page 47

A crash between two freighter trucks on Duarte Highway, followed with the collision of five other vehicles, on Thursday, 31 October 2019 morning created a bottleneck on the country’s main north-south road that lasted over 10 hours. The accident occurred at around noon at the Piedra Blanca overpass stretch. The traffic jam was at least …

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The Dominican Urology Society is celebrating November as the Awareness Month for Prostate Cancer to create increased awareness concerning the disease. The board of the medical society notes that four men die each day in this country from prostate cancer. The statistics indicate that in the Dominican Republic there are nearly 3,700 cases diagnosed and …

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Officials from the National Drug Control Agency (DNCD) shut down the Halloween party scheduled to take place at the old Herrera city airport in (just off of Luperón Avenue) on the same night of the party on Saturday, 2 November 2019. Party promoter, entrepreneur Miguel Guzman was arrested on allegations that the party was to …

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The National Drug Control Agency (DNCD) has announced that they have taken possession of the yacht owned by fugitive César Emilio Peralta “César el Abusador” that was moored in Boca Chica. They did not say if anyone had been arrested, nor if anything had been found on the yacht. The luxury yacht, called Milan, was …

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DNCD agents confiscated 945 packages of cocaine that were in a freight container at the Caucedo Multimodal Port. The cocaine was bound for Rotterdam, in Holland. The DNCD also arrested an unnamed Dominicans who is accused of trafficking with 390 packages of a substance suspect to be cocaine. Read more in Spanish:DNCDDNCD 5 November 2019

Ambiorix Nepomuceno Rodríguez, accused of the murder of young lawyer Paola Languasco in 2015, arrived on Monday, 4 November 2019, extradited from Spain. The victim’s body was found on 24 April 2015 inside a water pipe in Los Jardines de Norte in Santiago. The family had last heard from her when she on 6 April …

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On Sunday night, 3 November 2019, the Guinness Book of Records confirmed that the world record for the most number of people simultaneously dancing merengue is now owned by the Dominican Republic, with 422 couples. The event took places in Plaza España in the Colonial Zone in Santo Domingo. The pairs danced to the “El …

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The series of photos and stories about the different animals at the Dominican National Zoo in the National District has won a prize from Instagram: the Best Instagram Campaign. The prize was awarded by Latam Digital. The ZooDom’s continuous posting of funny pictures and stories about their animals has garnered a growing number of followers …

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Sports media have credited 21-year old Juan Soto with being a key player in the Washington Nationals winning the World Series last Wednesday, 31 October 2019. The Washington Nationals were down by two runs in the eighth inning of the wild card game when Soto hit his two-run single to tie the game. In Game …

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On occasion of the celebration of the Constitution Day holiday on Monday, 4 November, DR1 will be compiling the news for the previous weekend and Monday for its next Tuesday, 5 November issue. Constitution Day falls on Wednesday, 6 November 2019, but the Ministry of Labor has confirmed the holiday will be celebrated instead on …

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