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Economy Minister Miguel Ceara Hatton expects the free zone manufacturing and service sector to grow more than 10% by year’s end. “We have 12.7% accumulated growth already between January-September,” he advanced in a meeting with the board of directors of the Dominican Free Trade Zones (Adozona). Ceara Hatton met this week with the board of …

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“We have no control at the border, the border is still no man’s land,” senator Dionis Sanchez, tells Noticias SIN. Sánchez represents the province of Pedernales, on the border with Haiti. The Abinader administration has contemplated building the country’s next beach destination in Pedernales. Senator Sánchez says he perceives the lack of control and insecurity …

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Former Dominican ambassador to the United Nations, Jose Singer, who sat on the UN Security Council, shared with Diario Libre a short list of recommendations on what the Dominican Republic can do now that the international community seems to be washing its hands of the situation in Haiti. He writes:“Our country is at a great …

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The Ministry of Public Health says it has purchased 30% more influenza vaccines this year than last. The batch of 450,000 is available for seniors and those that are vulnerable. In recent weeks, health centers have registered a significant increase in the demand for care of children and adults suffering from respiratory processes, including type …

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Uber agreed on 10 November 2021 in a meeting with the Tourism Minister David Collado and National Institute of Transit and Land Transportation (Intrant) Rafael Arias to register as a transportation network company with the National Institute of Transit and Land Transportation (Intrant). 28,000 drivers and their vehicles would be registered. Intrant director Arias said …

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Get insights into the booming construction sector in the Dominican Republic. The Expo Feria Inmobiliaria Construmedia 2021 is happening 12-14 November 2021 at the Hotel Embajador. The construction boom is mainly centered in Santo Domingo and Santiago, the country’s main urban areas. Sadery Abreu, speaking for the exhibition organizers, says that local and foreign investors …

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Senator Alexis Victoria Yeb downplayed the findings of the Procurement Agency that ascertained that his companies have benefited with government contracting. Nevertheless, Victoria Yeb said that the contracting is minor and is legal. Victoria Yeb had on papers divested himself of Cristalia, a major pharmaceutical supplier, in May 2020, before swearing-in as senator for the …

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Legendary Dominican baseball player, Sammy Sosa chose to relocate to Panama instead of return home as many Dominican baseball players. But now, he has been requested by the Attorney General prosecutors to answer to alleged ties with the corruption network named as Anti-Octupus Operation. Sosa and his lawyers had nothing to say to the press …

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Now it is known that the kidnapping of a National Police corporal last week is allegedly related to a 400-kilogram cocaine “tumbe” in Barahona, for which some 15 members of the police are being investigated, as reported in El Dia. A source told El Dia that about three months ago several of the Barahona agents …

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Diario Libre has been covering the saga of three manatees – Juanita, Pepe and Lupita- rescued and kept at the National Aquarium for long months and then returned to the wild in the southeastern Caribbean Sea waters in Bayahibe. The manatees became accustomed to humans and Diario Libre reports on how they have become fixtures …

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