2020 – Page 145

The secretary general of the PLD and senator for the National District for the ruling Dominican Liberation Party (PLD) Reinaldo Pared Perez had been keeping pretty much to himself, as he recovers from cancer. Yet he was bothered enough to tweet to correct the PLD senate candidate Rafael Paz. Paz had promised to pass the …

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A video is circulating on social media in which the Modern Revolutionary Party (PRM) candidate for senator for the eastern province of Hato Mayor, Cristobal Castillo, can be seen from a SUV throwing money to people while touring the town. He is on campaign in an unidentified town in a caravan. A group of persons …

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The presidential candidate for the Modern Revolutionary Party (PRM), Luis Abinader, said that it was the government’s Attorney General Office] that issued the certificate of good conduct to former political leader Yamil Abreu Navarro, who is accused of being a leader of a criminal organization linked to the Sinaloa Cartel. Abreu is requested in extradition …

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Francisco Domínguez Brito, a former ruling Dominican Liberation Party (PLD) presidential candidacy hopeful, was the spokesman for the PLD political committee during the press conference held on 15 June to lambast the opposition for the role Abreu Navarro has played in PRM campaign activities in the southwest. Yamil Abreu Navarro had been a major for …

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Eight Italians had been hiding from Italian justice in the Dominican Republic. Two weeks after their arrest by Interpol, it was the Italian press that broke the news. In the Dominican Republic, nothing had been reported by the government on the arrests. It is not clear whether the accused have been extradited to Italy. As …

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According to Coronavirus Bulletin #87 of the Ministry of Public Health’s Department of Epidemiology, the Dominican Republic has 22,962 confirmed cases, 390 new confirmed cases from 109,022 PCR diagnostic tests. The tally of deaths is 592, including 15 new deaths, 12 of these in Greater Santo Domingo. 2,735 patients are hospitalized. Of these, 134 patients …

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Hacienda Minister Donald Guerrero submitted an additional budget request for RD$150 billion, the total budget for 2020 to the Senate on Saturday, 13 June 2020. The government party has majority in the Senate. Listin Diario reported it took the senators just 25 minutes to pass two readings of the bill. This brings the National Budget …

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While Covid-19 has claimed nearly 600 deaths in the Dominican Republic, another 330 have died this year from drinking “cleren”, the cheap and deadly home-brew that usually contains methanol instead of alcohol. Despite the beverage being illegal, colmados still illicitly stock the beverage, or elsewise, the poor continue to have access to the deadly drink. …

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Despite the continued lack of heavy rains in the mountains and an actual drought in some areas, the reservoirs in Moncion, Tavera-Bao, Hatillo and Rincon are currently within operational levels, although nowhere near their peaks. However, there are continued complaints regarding water service in many towns in the Cibao. Tavera-Bao, is at 322.05, about 5.5 …

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La Romana politician Pedro Botello freely admitted that it took some wheeling and dealing to get his campaign to allow workers to access up to 30% of their pensions money on the Chamber of Deputies’ agenda. The price? Allow a quorum to be created to hear the President’s request for a fifth extension of the …

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