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Government OMSA buses are offering basketball fans free transport to the Palacio de los Deportes at the Juan Pablo Duarte Olympic Center. The buses will not be charging for those using the service from sports clubs to the 2020 National District Superior Basketball Tournament that began on Wednesday, 26 February in Santo Domingo. An OMSA …

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Santiago Muñoz Machado, director of the Real Academia Española began a visit to the Dominican Republic on Saturday, 29 February 2020. Muñoz Machado is also president of the Association of Spanish Language Academies (Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española – ASALE). His visit here is part of a Central American and Caribbean tour of …

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La Vega cyclist, Ismael Sánchez is the individual winner of the Vuelta Independencia 2020 cycling tour, in its 41st year. Sánchez is the cyclist to have most won the tournament. He has done so on four occasions – 2012, 2016, 2016, 2017 and 2020. The top three teams were Aero Cycling Team, Inteja IMCA and …

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The Spanish Navy midshipmen training tall ship, Juan Sebastian Elcano, is docked in Santo Domingo open for visits by the general public from Monday, 2 March to Thursday, 5 March 2020. The visit is part of the annual officer six-month training tour that will end when the ship returns on 3 November to Cadiz, Spain. …

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The organizers of the Isle of Light announce that due to the rescheduling of the municipal election for 15 March 2020, the electronic music festival will now take place on 13 March. The event is scheduled for Punta Torrecilla, Sans Souci in eastern Santo Domingo. The promoters say those who will not be able to …

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President Danilo Medina spoke for more than two hours, reminding Dominicans the country is the regional leader in economic growth and that this has been accomplished without inflation and with the exchange rate in check. He did not mention the country’s rising public debt. Instead of rendering accounts of his government in the past year, …

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President Danilo Medina introduced his Independence Day speech saying that he identifies with the new generations that want answers to what happened, causing the municipal election to be aborted. He called the occurrence “sad and shameful, one that embarrasses us and tarnishes Dominican democracy”. He said what happened could not remain unexplained, or be explained …

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President Danilo Medina announced that the government will inaugurate the Armed Forces Technology Control Center on 16 March 2020, the day after the municipal election. The Centro de Control Tecnológico de las Fuerzas Armadas is located at the Ministry of Defense on Av. 27 de Febrero in the National District. In his Independence Day speech, …

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Latin American contemporary musical star Juan Luis Guerra sung “Dominicana” and “Ojala Llueva Café” accompanied by Roger Zayas, Adalgisa Pantaleón and Quico Rizek during the Plaza de la Bandera protest concert on Thursday, 27 February, Independence Day. “May a song for our country always be in our mouths,” he said to introduce his first song, …

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The Modern Revolutionary Party (PRM) asked for the Attorney General Office of the Republic to suspend the naming of new prosecutors. Speaking for the PRM, Sigmund Freud Mena, director of the legal office of the PRM, recalls the irregularities of the 2018 sweep of the prosecutor departments with the naming of new people. At the …

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