2021 – Page 101

President Luis Abinader has had to cancel his planned trip to Puerto Plata where he had scheduled a rather full schedule of inaugurations, inspections and ribbon cuttings. Originally, he was to cut the ribbon on the recently finished reconstruction of the Gregorio Luperon Highway. This very beautiful and historic highway connects Santiago and the Gran …

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Les Cayes, a beautiful, Victorian small town on the southwest coast of Haiti, was the focal point of a massive 7.2 magnitude earthquake at 8:29am on Saturday, 14 August 2021. Shortly after, at 8:32am, residents of Santiago, in central Dominican Republic, were shaken awake or found the ground shifting under their feet. Something similar happened …

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Something out of Ripley’s Believe it or Not! It appears that the Dominican government does not hold title to the plot of land that houses the Presidential Palace. Located between Dr. Delgado and 30 de Marzo streets, east and west, and Pedro Henriquez Ureña Avenue and Moises Garcia street, north and south, the building was …

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Environment Minister Orlando Jorge Mera announced President Luis Abinader would attend the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 26 ) scheduled for 31 October to 12 November 2021 in Glasgow, Scotland. Jorge Mera says the President’s participation recognizes that climate change is only second to the Covid-pandemic as a lead threat to humanity. Jorge Mera …

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It is probably not a surprise to anyone who has built anything from a cottage to an apartment complex. Still, according to the Regional Center for Sustainable Economic Strategies (CREES in Spanish), the prices of building materials have gone up over 25% so far this year. The information is based on data from the National …

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One of the most beautiful places in the capital city of Santo Domingo (National District), the Botanical Gardens is celebrating a new anniversary. The garden was opened in 1976 and contains an incredible representation of the endemic and native flora, and tropical fauna. The Botanical Gardens is named for botanist Rafael Maria Moscoso, who cataloged …

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The Dominican Republic beat host team Mexico 3-0 (25-20, 25-19, 25-22) to win a fifth U23 Women’s Pan American Championship. The tournament held in Aguascalientes, Mexico ended on Sunday night, 15 August 2021. The DR, Mexico, Puerto Rico and Suriname qualified for the Cali 2021 Junior Pan American Games (25 Nov-5 Dec 2021). Competing teams …

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The prevalence of Covid-19 in the Dominican Republic continues on the downward trend begun in July after the Mother’s Day spike. The number of reported active Covid-cases had declined to 5,586 for the 11 August 2021 bulletin. Yet after weeks of steady decline, it inched up a bit for the 14 August bulletin #514. Bulletin …

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The Ministry of Labor reminds all that this coming Monday is a holiday. It celebrates Restoration Day, or the day when independence was restored in the Dominican Republic with the withdrawal of Spanish forces. 16th of August marks the first year in government of President Luis Abinader. Read more: Ministry of Labor Wikipedia on the …

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The Presidency issued Decree 499-21 that creates the Trust for Recovered Public Patrimony. The trust’s objective is to create an autonomous entity to serve as a legal vehicle to implement the recovery of illicitly diverted public patrimony over the next 20 years. The new trust will also serve as a mechanism to supervise the fulfillment …

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