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US Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro N. Mayorkas announced a new 18-month designation of Haiti for Temporary Protected Status (TPS). This new TPS designation enables Haitian nationals (and individuals without nationality who last resided in Haiti) currently residing in the United States as of 21 May 2021 to file initial applications for TPS, so long …

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Following the state of emergency declared in Haiti due to the confirmation of Brazilian and English Covid-19 variants in Haitian territory, traders and public health authorities in Dajabón have doubled their health protocol on the border market to avoid the spread in Dominican territory of these highly contagious variants. Haiti Libre reports that despite this …

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The National Health Service (SNS) has added 150 more beds to Greater Santo Domingo’s Covid-19 care capacity. Dr. Mario Lama, director of the SNS, said the beds were fitted at the brand-new maternal building at the Ciudad Sanitaria Luis Eduardo Aybar and will attend to Covid-19 patients in the capital city. Greater Santo Domingo is …

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The Ministry of Public Health’s Epidemiology Department Coronavirus Bulletin #431 reports 838 new PCR cases for the Sunday, 23 May 2021 deadline. Greater Santo Domingo concentrates the spike in cases. The cases compare to the 7-day nationwide average for PCR confirmed cases that is 963, up from the previous day. As per Bulletin #431, with …

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President Luis Abinader traveled on Sunday, 23 May 2021 to Ecuador to attend the inauguration of Guillermo Lasso as the new President of Ecuador. He arrived to Ecuador at 5:20pm. That evening, President Abinader attended a dinner offered by current President Lenin Moreno to the visiting heads of government and state. The inauguration is set …

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President Luis Abinader has declared the purchase, design contracts, equipment, service contracts, execution and acquisition of equipment to construct the fence between the Dominican Republic and Haiti to be an emergency for national security reasons. The President authorized the Defense Ministry to carry out the border fence’s construction by Decree 276-21. The border between the …

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Thousands marched from Av. Máximo Gómez Avenue east along Av. Mexico and then south passing by the Presidential Palace on the way to the Independence Park in the Colonial City. Among the protestors was one of three daughters of President Luis Abinader, Adriana Margarita. The March for the Life and Dignity of Girls and Women …

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Rescue forces worked throughout the night and early morning to rescue the 32 people, including several children, who were stranded in the Puerto Plata cable car due to a breakdown at around 2pm on Sunday, 23 May 2021 that paralyzed the up and down cars in the air. The breakdown in the system affected both …

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Aerodom announced that arrivals and departures were restored after 10pm at the Las Americas International Airport after the runway lighting system failed to adequately operate. Aerodom said that four flights were diverted to other airports. A fight from San Juan returned to San Juan, a JetBlue flight landed instead in Santiago (Cibao Airport), an Iberia …

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Dominican Deputy Miguel Gutiérrez Díaz (PRM-Santiago) declared himself not guilty of charges of drug trafficking. Dennis Urbano said his client will accept preventive detention with review of the coercive measure and requested a jury trial in the hearing on Friday, 21 May 2021 in Miami, Florida. According to the official indictment against him, from 2014 …

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