2020 – Page 91

Youth Minister Kimberly Taveras announced the government is awarding scholarships to the Dominican winners of the Nasa Systems Safety Award contest. Dominican students from the Santo Domingo Technological Institute (INTEC) won in the System Safety Challenge Award category of The Rover Challenge. The Rover Challenge tasked US and international student teams with the design, engineering, …

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Tourism Minister David Collado announced on Monday, 31 August 2020 a new measure to relieve the restaurant sector during these difficult Covid-19 times. The government-owned electricity utilities will remove the fixed charged for installed capacity. This is a major relief for struggling restaurants and closed bars. The Ministry of Tourism, Asonahores and the private restaurant …

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The City Council of the National District approved the change of direction of 42 streets located in the so-called Polígono Central, the popular commercial and residential city area. Some of the streets are becoming one-way streets. In other cases, the city council ruled a new direction for traffic. Among the streets that will undergo changes …

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Coronavirus Bulletin #165 of the Ministry of Public Health’s Department of Epidemiology shows the Dominican Republic has 94,715 confirmed Covid-19 cases, including 474 new cases. The lull in cases has more to do with problems in testing at the government and private labs, rather than a real decline in cases. The new Public Health authorities …

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On Saturday and Sunday, President Luis Abinader, First Lady Raquel Arbaje, and their daughter Esther toured Pedernales, the southwestern province now targeted to become the next great Dominican destination. The media reports that in Pedernales, President Abinader met with Administrative Minister of the Presidency Jose Paliza, Minister of the Presidency Lisandro Macarrulla, Environment Minister Orlando …

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President Luis Abinader and the now ruling Modern Revolutionary Party (PRM) campaigned promising rule of law. Technically, the Presidency is sticking to the promise by submitting a bill to change the law that rules the National Institute of Potable Water and Sewage (Inapa). The Inapa law establishes that the executive director needs to be an …

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The heart of downtown Santiago de los Caballeros has many century-old, Victorian-style houses and many are near disappearing. Now, Monumental Heritage authority is issuing the permits to put these buildings to use as part of the effort to renovate the city center and make it attractive to tourism. As reported in El Caribe, one such …

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The Chamber of Deputies approved to extend the current National State of Emergency and the curfews for another 45 days. President Luis Abinader had submitted the motion. The extension will be from Thursday, 3 September through 17 October 2020. It has already passed in the Senate. The Presidency has said it will take advantage of …

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After a week of a lull in testing, Health Minister says that a batch of 100,000 PCR kits has arrived, and the plan is to step up testing to 7,000-10,000 a day. The plan is for the number of tests to double or triple. Initially, the tests will be carried out at the governmental Laboratorio …

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Coronavirus Bulletin #164 of the Ministry of Public Health’s Department of Epidemiology shows the Dominican Republic has 94,241 confirmed Covid-19 cases, including 509 new cases. The lull in cases has more to do with problems in testing at the government and private labs, rather than a real decline in cases. The official accumulated incidence of …

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