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The US Embassy in the Dominican Republic invites Dominicans to apply to participate in the Academy for Women Entrepreneurs (AWE) program in 2022. The entrepreneurship training program was begun under the US State Department’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) in 2019 in 50 countries around the world. It seeks to provide women entrepreneurs …

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The Ministry of Public Health Coronavirus Bulletin #614 with the deadline of 22 November 2021 reports 846 new cases. Bulletin #614 reports active Covid-19 cases are at 3,955, considerably down (-402) when compared to the day before, and the lowest since the early days of the pandemic. The number of active cases is minimal when …

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President Luis Abinader was present for the Monday, 22 November 2021 Solidarity Awards 2021 delivered to small business by the BCIE at an event at the Presidential Palace. During the event, Abinader highlighted that micro and small businesses represent 98% of the country’s businessmen and contribute 38% of the economy’s GDP (Gross Domestic Product). Likewise, …

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President Luis Abinader expressed his pride in the members of the Armed Forces for their work in the defense of the country. “The Dominican people should feel proud of the Armed Forces, the National Army, the Navy, the Air Force and the specialized bodies that are fulfilling a task at the service of the country,” …

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Shortly after he was named Minister of Defense, Major General Carlos Diaz Morfa sent a letter to the Chamber of Deputies requesting the reinstatement in the Penal Code of the special jurisdiction for crimes committed by the military. The current Penal Code orders the military to be judged by ordinary justice. The Senate has already …

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President Luis Abinader defended this Monday, 22 November 2021, the policy assumed by the government for public hospitals to only attend to emergency cases of foreigners seeking free assistance. “We are attending all emergency cases, but simply, the health system cannot attend to the demands of the Dominican Republic and those of another country. So, …

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Haitian Foreign Minister Claude Joseph rejects paralyzing the construction of the Masacre Canal. The construction is protested by farmers in Dajabón province in the Dominican Republic on grounds that it would affect the supply of water to their farms. Three weeks after statements made by President Luis Abinader on the case of gangs in Haiti, …

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Víctor Castro, former president of the Herrera Industrial Association, took office as executive director of the National Institute of Student Assets (Inabie). President Luis Abinader named Castro to sort out the upheaval after contractors disputed many of the purchase decisions of the Inabie, a division of the Ministry of Education. The appointment of Castro came …

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The Technological Institute of Santo Domingo (Intec) presented the country with the first nine graduates in Cybersecurity Engineering trained in the country during graduation on 20 November 2021. The pioneering program trains professionals to apply science, mathematics and engineering to solve complex computer security problems. The first graduates are Manuel Alfau Martínez, Luis Cepeda Andújar, …

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Noticias SIN is reporting on several members of the Lopez Pilarte family under preventive custody measures that were photographed on vacation in Punta Cana wearing their ankle monitors. Esteban Perez, the lawyer of the defendants, says that the measure that requires the wearing of the electronic shackles implemented by the judge against his defendants does …

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