2020 – Page 171

Aerodom operates the international airports in Santo Domingo, Puerto Plata and Samana. Now the Vinci Airports operator says it is working on reinstating flight operations after almost two months shutdown of all flights but special charters for repatriation of foreign nationals. Monika Infante, director for Vinci Airports in the country, announced the plan is to …

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Avianca could be the first major airline flying to the Dominican Republic to file for bankruptcyThe airline was the Dominican Republic’s main air connection to Colombia. The airline dates back to 1919 and as of the end of 2019, was the third-largest Latin American airline based on market share, after Chile’s Latam Airlines and Brazil’s …

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United Airlines has scheduled repatriation flights to Newark from Santo Domingo and Santiago. The Sunday flight schedules are:Departure at 11:30am from Las Americas International (SDQ), arrival 3:29pm to Newark International (EWR).Departure at 2:45pm from Cibao International Airport (STI), arrival at 6:05pm to Newark International (EWR). These flights are only open to US residents and citizens. …

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The executive director of the non-partisan civic movement Citizen Participation, Carlos Pimentel, said that the irregularities reported in the procurement of temperature-measuring devices by the Ministry of Defense (MIDE) are not simple administrative errors. He also described the simple announced cancellation of the MIDE-MAE-PEEEN-2020-0008 purchase procedure as unacceptable, saying the contracting was loaded with irregularities …

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For the record, the leading opposition party, the Modern Revolutionary Party (PRM) deposited a request before the government Administrative Anti-corruption Agency (PEPCA) and the Attorney General Office (PGR) for an in depth investigation into contracts awarded by the Ministry of Public Health for over RD$3 billion with the National State of Emergency to Tools & …

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Weather forecasters say that the cloud of dust pushing westward from Africa into the Atlantic Ocean continues to bring haze to Dominican skies. But the same forecasters are optimistic that the skies are clearing, at least for a few days. The Saharan Dust is a dense layer of sand, dirt and other dust that is …

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International press is focusing on street art created by Dominican migrant in Berlin, Germany. The artist signs as Eme Freethinker. A recent graffiti where Xi Ping of China and Donald Trump of the USA appear wearing face masks and touching nose to nose has called attention to the street art in Mauerpark. “That’s why I …

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Dominican singers have lent their voices to a new version of “Resistiré” the coronavirus war song, relaunched in Spain when that country was suffering the peak of the disease. “Resistire” produced by Porfirio Piña, César Suárez Jr. and Alberto Zayas is a fund-raiser for thousands of Dominican artists that are now without work. YouTube royalties …

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Maestro Jorge Severino died on Monday, 10 May 2020 in the early morning. He is most famous for his paintings of regally attired black Dominican women. He developed the style early on when attempting to emulate the classic photograph sitting of the upper class in his native Puerto Plata. In recent years, he had served …

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69 days after the first person tested positive to the disease in the Dominican Republic, the Ministry of Public Health reports reaching the goal of 2,000+ tests per day. In coronavirus bulletins 51 and 52 (Saturday and Sunday), more than 2,000 tests were carried out. As a result, the country’s mortality rate has now for …

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