2021 – Page 155

Environmentalists say it would have been better to spend the money planting a fence of trees. But the Ministry of Defense has kept up with the construction of around 25 km of fence on the border with Haiti initiated during the past Danilo Medina administration. The plan is to build many many more kilometers of …

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When taking the position as the new director of the Port Authority (Apordom), Jean Luis Rodríguez announced he would not be using the credit card assigned to the director that had a limit of US$10,000 a month. He revealed he received the government agency with a RD$1.5 billion deficit, of which RD$800 million corresponded to …

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Diario Libre features an extensive report on 31 May 2021 on the mafia that sells human blood to those who are desperate. The newspaper looks into the network of blood vendors that benefit from the deficiencies in hospitals and blood banks. The Dominican Red Cross has traditionally sold blood at RD$2,500, with the purchaser having …

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The National Drug Control Agency (DNCD) reports that the Forensic Sciences Institute (Inacif) has confirmed that the 602 packages of drugs seized in Barahona and these tested positive for cocaine and weighed 624.26 kilograms. Likewise, the 252 packages seized in the Multimodal Caucedo Port in Santo Domingo province were found to be cocaine with a …

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Historian and economist Bernardo Vega won the Regional History Prize, sponsored by the Caribbean Studies Association, for his book “The Racial Question and the Dominican Annexation Project to the United States in 1870”. The Caribbean Studies Association (CSA) is an independent professional organization devoted to the promotion of Caribbean studies from a multidisciplinary, multicultural point …

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The Dominican Republic defeated Puerto Rico 5-2 in its opening game in the three-day WBSC Baseball Americas Qualifier that was played at Clover Park in Port St. Lucie, Florida, USA. Raul Valdes was the winning pitcher for the Dominican Republic. On Tuesday, 1 June 2021, the Dominican Republic will play Team USA in The Ballpark …

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Veteran Spanish film director Javier Quintas will be shooting the comedy, “Vienes o voy” in the Dominican Republic. Quintas is best known for the successful TV series: “Money Heist: The Phenomenon” (La casa de papel). Producer Dani Vega convinced Quintas to choose the DR as the location for the film. “I am from the Canary …

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The Ministry of Public Health’s Epidemiology Department Coronavirus Bulletin #438 reports 876 new PCR cases for the Sunday, 30 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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President Luis Abinader spoke at a government-sponsored event to commemorate the victims of the Trujillo dictatorship. The events marked the 60th anniversary of the murder of the cruel dictator. On 29 May 2021, President Abinader called for the entire Dominican society to join the national silence in homage to the people who offered their lives …

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Technical missions from the Dominican Republic are studying the case of channeling of the border rivers. The missions are meeting after the impasse over the construction of a canal that would divert the waters of the Masacre River in Haiti. The river is born in the Dominican Republic and then flows into Haiti. The Dominican …

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