2020 – Page 25

The Abinader administration wants to find a solution to the Haitian birthing tourism dilemma that significantly raises the local public health costs. Dominican public hospitals are free and offer better medical care. There is a clandestine birthing tourism business that drops pregnant women off at Dominican hospitals just in time for these to give birth. …

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President Luis Abinader has pending convening the National Council of the Magistracy (CNM) to choose the judges for the higher courts in the Dominican Republic. The CNM is responsible for selecting the judges of the Constitutional Court (TC), the Supreme Court of Justice (CSJ), Superior Electoral Court (TSE), and the Superior Administrative Court (TSA). President …

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The Plaza de la Salud General Hospital discharged Attorney General Miriam German Brito. She had been at the hospital for five days, for treatment for a urinary infection and pneumonia. Dr. Nepomuceno Mejía of the Plaza de la Salud said German will be continuing her treatment and recovery at home. Dashira Martínez, spokesperson for the …

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The Procurement Agency (DGCP) has sent documentation to the Anti-Administrative Corruption Agency (Pepca) as evidence of irregularities in the contracting carried out between suspended Youth Minister Kinsberly (Kimberly) Taveras Duarte and the city government of Boca Chica. The contracting irregularities were made public in a Nuria Piera investigative television program. Piera was investigating how the …

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State prosecutors say they will be presenting evidence against the six incriminated in the US$92 million Odebrecht bribery case starting on Thursday, 3 December 2020. The public prosecutors say they have some 1,700 pieces of evidence against the six already accused in the corruption case concerning bribes paid by the Brazilian construction company to win …

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The United Kingdom Embassy in the Dominican Republic announces the signing of an agreement with the University of Oxford to grant scholarships to Dominican students, as reported in Listin Diario. The agreement will open doors to more Dominican students to have the opportunity to do their master’s degree at Oxford University. The students need to …

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Stores in the Dominican Republic began Black Friday clearance sales early in November, but more and better sales are announced for the actual Friday, and for Saturday and Sunday — 27-29 November 2020. While a select circle of thousands celebrated some form of Thanksgiving gathering in the country, hundreds of thousands are out shopping for …

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The Ministry of Public Health’s Epidemiology Department Coronavirus Bulletin #252 reports 1,258 new PCR confirmed cases. This is a recent high in confirmed cases. The previous 7-day nationwide average for PCR confirmed cases is 600 cases. A record 7,002 first PCR tests were carried out in time for the 25 November report deadline. The government …

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President Luis Abinader answered questions by journalists of the Corripio Group media. During the hour-long presentation, the President reiterated several of the actions of his government and announced relief programs and economic recovery programs would continue. The President said his government is open to reducing curfew restrictions during the Christmas and New Year holidays but …

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President Luis Abinader traveled on Wednesday, 25 November 2020 to San José de Conuco, in the municipality of Salcedo, to commemorate the International Day for Elimination of Violence against Women at the Mirabal Sisters Museum. The day was established by the United Nations in honor of the efforts of the Dominican sisters. “Let us work …

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