2021 – Page 207

The Civil Defense Office has produced a very long list of safe places to go and swim, picnic and relax over the Easter holidays, the peak time of the year for domestic travel. The list to go includes rivers, canals, and many, many beaches. The announcement of the go-to places comes after the authorities shared …

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Things seem to be getting better and better for the Dominican tourist industry. Barceló Group and their partners Avoris Corporation Empresarial have just announced the start of operations of their new airline, Iberojet. Iberojet will have a hub in the Dominican Republic. The plan is for Iberojet to begin operations in May of this year. …

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Starbucks has installed itself in the capital city since 2019. It now has a store at the Downtown Center shopping center in Bella Vista (Rómulo Betancourt + Núñez de Cáceres intersection) serving the western part of the capital city and another at the Acropolis mall and another at Acrópolis mall at Av. Winston Churchill. Ricardo …

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71-year old former Vice President Jaime David Fernández was hospitalized in the intensive care unit of the Centro Médico Moderno in Santo Domingo. He complained of intense chest pain. He had been recovering from a catheterization. Just recently, he had mourned the loss of his brother, Jaime Enrique, who died of lung conditions. The politician …

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Beloved TV host, Mariasela Álvarez was diagnosed with Covid-19. She confirmed it in her Twitter account. She is the host of the “Esta Noche con Mariasela” nightly TV variety show on Channel 9. Cohosts Diana Lora, Camila García and National District senator Faride Raful continue the TV show while she recovers. Mariasela announced that coincidentally, …

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Jack Veneno was a star of Dominican television for more than 20 years. He was a colorful pro-wrestler, one who never lost, and later a shill for several products. He is, without a doubt, one of the most famous people in the Dominican Republic, especially for the “baby boomers” that watched him on Saturday afternoon …

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Diario Libre reports that the number of femicides has already doubled the month’s numbers in 2019 and 2020. Diario Libre reports that their spouses or former spouses have killed at least six women. In March 2019 and 2020, three deaths are reported for the same cause. Of these, four were in just one week. Read …

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Drive safe, people. On Friday, 26 March 2021, there were two motorcycle accidents that killed four people, including a father and his young son. Another young man was killed in Puerto Plata in a still-unexplained accident. On Saturday there was a horrific accident in Baní, where three persons died, including another child. The clash was …

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Agents assigned to the Specialized Corps for Metro Safety (Cesmet) detained a young man for acting strangely. He had with him a seemingly heavy backpack when riding on the Metro. Upon being stopped for questioning, the agents discovered he was carrying over half a million in blue-colored RD$2,000 bills in the backpack. All were counterfeit …

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What a wake-up call for young folks. The head of the tuberculosis unit at the Santo Socorro Hospital in Santo Domingo has just revealed that 75% of those between the ages of 18 and 30 that are testing positive for TB are hookah users. And TB is contagious. Dr. Altagracia Lopez told reporters from the …

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