2021 – Page 154

Alfredo Pacheco, president of the Chamber of Deputies, announced the Chamber would be closed for the remainder of this week. He said only 25% of the staff would remain in their positions. The Chamber of Deputies carried out a PCR testing campaign that increased the numbers of those testing positive to around 100 persons. The …

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Olmedo León, of the Cibao Ecological Society (Soeci), warns that the shortcut to Puerto Plata from Santiago, the Ambar Highway, would cause major environmental damages to the area. He said the area is karstic rock that erodes with subterranean waters, not adequate for a highway construction. León said that no environmental impact study would favor …

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Journalist Huchi Lora has offered more details of the plot against the prosecutor, deputy attorney general Yeni Berenice Reynoso. Reynoso is investigating several cases that involve high-ranking officials in the past Danilo Medina administration, including military and police. Lora said that he has information that Colonel Pedro Julio (Pepe) Goico Guerrero, former head of past …

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Sinovac Biotech’s CoronaVac vaccine is the second Chinese vaccine to receive World Health Organization emergency approval. This is good news for the Dominican Republic where 5,268,000 doses of Sinovac vaccines or 93% of all vaccine batches are from this Chinese pharmaceutical company. WHO had approved the Sinopharm on 7 May 2021. China donated a batch …

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The organizers of the Soberano Awards, the Oscar ceremony for the entertainment industry in the Dominican Republic, announced Juan Luis Guerra will be performing for the extravaganza on 16 June 2021. The event is in its 36th year and will be staged to a limited audience at the National Theater and telecast to national and …

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The Ministry of Public Health’s Epidemiology Department Coronavirus Bulletin #439 reports 1,235 new PCR cases for the Monday, 31 May 2021 deadline. In May there has been a spike in new cases comparable to the peak reported after the Christmas holidays in January 2021. Greater Santo Domingo and San Cristóbal concentrate the most new cases. …

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The Presidency announced last night it had issued Decree 349-21 ordering new circulation restrictions to reduce the new spread of Covid-19 in the country. The measures will be in effect from Wednesday, 2 June through Wednesday, 9 June 2021. The new curfew is Monday to Friday from 6pm to 5am and Saturdays and Sundays from …

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Puerto Plata is one of the seven provinces exempted from the 6pm business close order issued by the Presidency to start on 2 June 2021. While most of its businesses can remain open until 10pm, the Ministry of Public Health ordered the temporary shutdown for 15 days of the Puerto Plata Malecón and two major …

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Foreign Relations Minister Roberto Alvarez and Administrative Minister of the Presidency Jose Ignacio Paliza announced the government would not sit down for talks as part of the Haiti-Dominican Republic Technical Bilateral Commission until construction stops on the Masacre River irrigation canal under construction by the Haitian government. The announcement followed a meeting with President Luis …

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The way the electoral laws are written, you need big bucks to campaign for deputy or senator. Deputy Jose Horacio Rodríguez and senator Faride Raful who won their seats without millionaire spending, are the exceptions, not the rule. These two are not wealthy, as many of the politicians who sit for the majority political parties …

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