2021 – Page 55

Freight trucks (categories 3, 4 and 5) will be able to travel free on the Santo Domingo Beltway (Circunvalación Santo Domingo). The measure is expected to provide relief to traffic jams in Greater Santo Domingo as the heavy trucks are detoured to the north of the too congested capital city. The vehicles with 3 and …

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The media has been following the spending of the Abinader government in propaganda, promotion and positioning according to its communications strategies. Actually, the media presence of the Abinader administration has followed in the pattern of the billionaire spending to generate a good word on government inherited from the previous administration. Daily advertisements promote the bounties …

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The Chamber of Deputies voted without debates to name lawyer Maria Elena Vasquez to preside Pro-Competencia. At the time of her appointment she was the director for the Center for Constitutional Studies of the Constitutional Court. Previously she had served as legal counsel to the president of the Constitutional Court. She has served as a …

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The executive vice president of the National Business Council (Conep), Cesar Dargam called for the Abinader administration to take on discussions for a Fiscal Pact and not impose a fiscal reform package as has occurred in the past. The Fiscal Pact was mandated by National Development Strategy Law (END 1-2 Law) signed in 2012, but …

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The Superior Administrative Court (TSA) postponed for Friday, 22 October and Tuesday, 26 October 2021, the hearings on the legality of the requirement of showing a vaccination card to enter government offices, banks, stores and more. The Ministry of Public Health has mandated that people be fully vaccinated to enter these places, or at least …

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The Center for Emergency Operations reminds people that on 20 October 2021 at 10am an emergency drill will be carried out to practice for a major earthquake in the Dominican Republic. The drill will be focused on the central Santiago and Puerto Plata areas. Read more:DR1 News 20 October 2021

France Week 2021 will be held from 16 to 19 November. The theme is Sustainable City. The Santo Domingo Metro already runs using French Alstom cars and technology; the Las Americas International Airport is operated by a French company, Vinci. An extensive business, educational and cultural activities are planned for the fourth edition of the …

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The announcement that the two doses of Covid-19 vaccination are now required to use public transport and to access many public places has delivered the desired result. Thousands are again lining up to be vaccinated. The daily number of vaccines administered has jumped from a low 20,797 on 30 September 2021 to 62,318 doses for …

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Sworn in on 18 October 2021 as part of initiatives for the Abinader government to go from talking about Police reform to action, Major General Eduardo Alberto Then announced he would be implementing the quadrant police surveillance system to improve citizen security. He said the country is being divided in the blocks assigned to police …

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The Central Electoral Board (JCE), the government body in charge of the general elections in the Dominican Republic, has issued Resolution 28/2021 alerting that the pre-election campaign period has not yet opened. The resolution gives guidelines and controls for partisan campaigning and the use of social media by the political parties. The JCE says that …

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