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Critics of New York’s Museum of Modern Art’s funding sources have targeted board members Leon Black for his financial ties to Jeffrey Epstein and Larry Fink, denounced as a private prison profiteer. But now Sandy Plácido, a Dominican Studies scholar and professor of history at the City University of New York (CUNY), recently led a …

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A Puerto Plata judge ordered two US citizens and a Dominican to serve six months in jail as they await a trial for the holding of seven minors ages 12 to 14 years of age at a hotel. One of the US citizens is 32-year old Tyree Dumas of the Philadelphia based Dollarsboyz, a group …

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Inspectors at the Las Americas International Airport uncovered a white substance suspect to be cocaine hidden inside the tubing of the suitcase body of an Italian passenger. The suspected drugs weighted 1.70 kilograms. The substance was sent to the National Forensic Sciences Institute for verification. The suspected drug was seized and the 61-year old unnamed …

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After a slow start in the tournament, the Dominican Republic senior women’s volleyball team defeated the team of Turkey in the Nations League Volleyball Championship. Turkey had won all its games until the match against the “Queens of the Caribbean” as the Dominican volleyball team is known. Team DR defeated Turkey with scores of 25-22, …

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The Dominican Baseball League announced its support to the efforts to reach the goal of having 70% of the population vaccinated by August 2021. Vaccination centers are now set up at ballparks and promotions will be carried out through social media. Lidom is getting leading Dominican baseball players and Dominican team spokespeople to participate in …

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The Ministry of Public Health’s Epidemiology Department Coronavirus Bulletin #445 reports 906 new PCR cases for the Sunday, 6 June 2021 deadline. There is a spike of Covid-19 cases attributed to the entry of the more transmissible Brazilian and UK variants of the Chinese virus and the increased mixing of young people. As has been …

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The health authorities vaccination campaign worked. After days of declining numbers of persons getting vaccinated per day, the Ministry of Public Health was able to report new record numbers of vaccinations over the Corpus Christi long weekend. The new daily vaccination record is now 129,308 set for the 5 June deadline, as reported by Our …

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President Luis Abinader, the Minister of Interior & Police Jesus (Chu) Vasquez and Santo Domingo Mayor Carolina Mejía met in the uptown low-income area of Cristo Rey on Friday, 4 June 2021 to announce the start of the “My Safe Country” initiative. Cristo Rey is a densely populated barrio in the capital city bordered on …

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The National Police says it was not a fire, nor a terrorist attack on the Dominican government, nor was it directed at the airport itself. It was a simple robbery to resell the copper wiring. The National Police arrested a 21-year-old, along with his brother, and is accusing them of cutting the electricity cables that …

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Hungarian Alex Toth was deported back to his country where he is wanted on 475 charges of fraud. In a collaboration between the International Police (Interpol) and the Specialized Prosecutor for Money Laundering and Terrorism of the Attorney General Office (PGR), Toth was located living in a villa at the Metro Country Club in the …

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