2021 – Page 195

The National Drug Control Agency (DNCD), now under new authorities, has confiscated 5,629.65 kgs, with 4,878 persons arrested (6% foreigners, 94% Dominicans). In addition, 2,378.8 kgs have been seized abroad with collaboration from the DNCD. Read more in Spanish:El Dia DNCD DR1 News 14 April 2021

The Civil Aviation Board (JAC) cleared JetBlue to operate five flights per week on the Newark (EWR)-Puerto Plata (POP) route. This flight will be in addition to the United Airlines flight that operates three times a week on the same frequency. The JAC also authorized Avianca flights from Medellín, Colombia (MDE) to Punta Cana (PUJ). …

Read more…

Dominican ambassador to Brazil, Patricia Villegas said that on 8 April 2021 the Brazilian Senate approved the Visa Elimination Agreement between Brazil and the Dominican Republic. The agreement had already passed in the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies and both houses of the Dominican Congress. The agreement was signed by both governments in 2018. It guarantees …

Read more…

The deadline for the tender the Dominican Institute of Telecommunications (Indotel) has called to choose the 5G supplier to the Dominican Republic is in May 2021. In 2020, the Dominican Republic became the first Caribbean country to practically blacklist Huawei’s 5G technology in response to siding with the United States in the technological competition between …

Read more…

In an interview published on 13 April 2021 in Diario Libre, the chief of the Police, Major General Edward Sánchez says for the first time there is the political will to carry out a “real reform” of the Police. Sánchez told Diario Libre that if it were up to him, the reform would begin with …

Read more…

Popular singer Manny Cruz is asking everyone to join in prayer for the recovery of his wife, Yeri Peguero. Peguero this week gave birth to their daughter Montserrat but is seriously ill with Covid-19. Milagros Sánchez, mother of Cruz, posted a video on her social network asking for people to pray for her daughter-in-law’s prompt …

Read more…

Dominican baseball player Rafael Devers is on a homerun streak. The Red Sox third baseman blasted his fourth straight game homerun. The media focuses on how only two other Red Sox players have homered in four straight games before turning 25. The homers come after Devers had begun the 2021 Major League Baseball season in …

Read more…

The Ministry of Public Health’s Epidemiology Department Coronavirus Bulletin #390 reports 598 new PCR cases for the Monday, 12 April 2021 deadline. The cases compare to the 7-day nationwide average for PCR confirmed cases that is 576. As per Bulletin #390 with the deadline of 12 April 2021, the Ministry of Public Health has registered …

Read more…

The Ministry of Public Health the National Health Service (SNS) and the National Health Insurance (SeNaSa) and other health sector institutions launched a project to detect cervical, breast and prostate cancer from the Presidential Palace on Monday 12 April 2021. First Lady Raquel Arbaje is backing the initiative. Dr. Mario Lama, director of the National …

Read more…

The National Export Free Zone Council (CNZFE) approved 18 new companies in various locations around the country. The new industries would create 3,651 direct jobs. Carlos Guillermo Flaquer, deputy minister of Free Zones and Special Regimes at the Ministry of Industry & Commerce (MICM) said that US$69.6 million would be invested in the start-up of …

Read more…