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President Luis Abinader met with Haitian President Jovenel Moise in Elías Piña, a province on the border with Haiti. As reported by the Presidency, the meeting was informal yet the two leaders were able to talk extensively about bilateral issues. Abinader himself reported on the meeting and noted that a joint declaration of the agreements …

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Vice President Raquel Peña, head of the Health Cabinet of the Abinader administration, says that the first 25,000 doses of Covid-19 vaccines will arrive this month. She explained the vaccines were contracted under the Covax program of the World Health Organization, as reported in El Dia.The Vice President said health care workers will be the …

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2020 is a year when for almost six months, the Dominican economy practically was at a standstill. Nevertheless, Customs Agency (DGA) reports that collections were RD$127.49 billion, only 11.59% less than the R$144.22 billion in 2019. The Customs Agency said that the upturn came with the start of the new government in August. Then collections …

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With 2020 being a “lost year,” a lot of people are now analyzing data from 2019. During that year the Dominican Republic attracted nearly 50% of all direct foreign investments in the Caribbean region, according to the December 2020 report by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC). The entity stressed the …

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Listin Diario shared the list of the companies that won bids for upwards of RD$10 billion to supply the Ministry of Education with over 700,000 laptops and tablets for the 2020-2021 school year. Laptops were also purchased for small business government programs. The tender is the focus of attention, with a feature in Diario Libre …

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Government departments and agencies are now allowed to carry out direct contracting with much higher thresholds authorized. Resolution PNP 01-2021 establishes that entities must call for public bidding for all works that reach RD$394,299,738.00 thereafter, as well as for the acquisition of goods and services of more than RD$4,846,824. In the case of restricted bidding, …

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The Attorney General Office says investigations are advancing to prove the Chamber of Accounts complicity in crimes of administrative corruption. The Chamber of Accounts is the government body in charge of auditing government transactions. The public prosecutors issued a release explaining ongoing investigations against members of the state’s oversight body for obstruction of justice. Hugo …

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Judge Jose Alejandro Vargas issued the warrant for the raid on Saturday to the home of former administrator of the EdeNorte power utility, Julio Cesar Correa. Listin Diario reported that the prosecutors left with several boxes, packages and suitcases supposedly with documents for an ongoing investigation. As reported, Correa was present when prosecutors and law …

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The US$92 million bribes scandal resumed on Friday in Santo Domingo. The case is being televised and streamed but on Friday, 8 January 2021, the testimony of Mauricio Dantas Bezerra, the Odebrecht construction firm legal officer who signed the US$184 million penalty deal with the Dominican government, was not aired at a request of the …

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The French Association of Travel Writers (AJT) is in the Dominican Republic to celebrate their annual reunion to analyze the global pandemic and its impact on travel and what the future may bring. The Dominican tourism office in France has coordinated a fam trip of the entire country to take place concurrently. The journalists are …

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