2020News

Abinader: It was the government that cleared Yamil Abreu, who is now requested in extradition

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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Presidential campaign focuses on how drug trafficking has penetrated governments and politics

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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Dominican Republic – Coronavirus Covid-19: Bulletin #87/13 June 2020

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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Local moonshine causes 330 deaths since Covid 19 arrival

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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Water scarcity persists even with reservoirs at good levels

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 …