2021 – Page 144

Coach Melvyn López announced on Monday, 14 June 2021 the Dominican team to the basketball Olympic Games qualifier in Belgrade, Serbia, 29 June- 4 July 2021. The winning team gets a slot in the Tokyo Olympics 12-team basketball tournament. The Dominican team members are Brandon Francis, Sadiel Rojas, Gelvis Solano, Rigoberto Mendoza, Adonys Henríquez, Ángel …

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What’s up for grabs is the last slot to play in the Tokyo Olympics baseball tournament. Venezuela (ranked 8th), the Dominican Republic (ranked 10th) and the Netherlands (ranked 9th) will battle it out after Australia declined from participating. The winner will join Japan, Israel, Korea, Mexico and USA, teams that have already qualified for the …

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The Dominican Republic defeated the Netherlands in the Nations League volleyball tournament. The match ended 3-1 in favor of the “Queens of the Caribbean.” The Dominican volleyball team scored 23-25, 25-,28-30 and 22-25, only losing game three to the strong Netherlands team. The Dominican Republic’s women’s volleyball team is seventh in the standings of the …

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The Ministry of Public Health’s Epidemiology Department Coronavirus Bulletin #452 reports 827 new PCR cases for the Sunday, 13 June 2021 deadline. There is a spike of Covid-19 cases attributed to the entry of the more transmissible variants of the original coronavirus and the increased mixing of young people. The number of active cases, nevertheless …

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President Luis Abinader attended the inaugural of the largest solar power plant in the Caribbean. The Empresa Generadora de Electricidad Haina (EgeHaina), a public-private venture, invested US$100 million to build the new Girasol Solar Park. The plant has installed capacity for 120 megawatts and is estimated to produce 240,000 megawatt hours (MWh) per year, enough …

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El Seibo senator Santiago Zorrilla (PRM-El Seibo) called for the government to build a four-lane highway from San Pedro de Macorís, connecting the provinces of Hato Mayor and El Seibo, and its new Miches beach resorts. Zorrilla is a native of Miches himself. He envisions the new road saving 41 kilometers over the present land …

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Business is business, and the twice-weekly binational market is surely proof of that. The government ordered the shut down of the main building, a huge rabbit warren of stalls and cubicles, after new variants have caused a spike of Covid-19 cases in Haiti and now in Dajabón, the border city on the Dominican side. While …

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The National Council of Export Free Zones (CNZFE) approved 12 new companies and the expansion of two existing companies. US$28 million will be injected in the economy to create more than 1,600 jobs. The new enterprises are scattered all over the country, from Mao to Barahona, Puerto Plata to Santo Domingo. They will produce footware, …

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As the Covid-19 pandemic continues its path of death and destruction, nearly every sector of the Dominican economy is experiencing price hikes. The nation’s builders are especially vulnerable, and their costs have truly skyrocketed. The bag of cement that used to cost a hundred pesos, is now quoted at US$10 the bag. As is well …

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The Attorney General Office announced the arrest of ten persons over the weekend, including Luis Maisichell Dicent, the suspended director of the National Lottery, the government lottery. The arrests were carried out as part of Operation 13 on Saturday by the public prosecution agency and the administrative anti-corruption agency (Pepca) officials. Operation 13 seeks to …

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