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The National Statistics Office (ONE) will carry out the 10th National Population and Housing Census of the Dominican Republic in October 2022, at a programmed cost of RD$2.9 billion, announced Miosotis Rivas Peña, ONE director. The census would have been carried out in 2020 but was postponed due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Rivas said that …

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Together with the Navy and the Dominican Council of Fisheries and Aquaculture, the Ministry of Environment announced more than half a ton of parrotfish and conch were seized in operations in northeastern Samana. The banned species were confiscated on two fishing boats. The owners will be sent to justice. The authorities intercepted the 836 pounds …

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There is too much political interference in the Police and the entire force should be replaced or restructured in the next eight to 10 years, according to the findings of the diagnostic analysis carried out of the National Police in the Dominican Republic by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). The Abinader …

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With a mass vaccination program in place, the Dominican Republic faces the uncertainty of whether the imminent entry of the Delta Covid-19 variant will cause a major outbreak as has occurred in Florida. Listin Diario and Mariasela Alvarez (Esta Noche con Mariasela) interviewed Denise Gomez, a Dominican dentist with global health studies at John Hopkins …

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The director of the Department of Epidemiology at the Ministry of Public Health, Dr. Ronald Skewes reported during the Wednesday, 1 September 2021 Covid-19 press conference that 9 cases of Covid-19 Mu variant were identified in May 2021 circulating in the Dominican Republic. In May there was a spike in cases of Covid-19 that subsequently …

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That the first year in government rendering took place this year on the steps of the Presidential Palace instead of at the National Congress could be a clue to the major differences within the ruling Modern Revolutionary Party. The President was introduced by his wife and three daughters, contrary to the traditional ceremony at the …

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The Senate-Chamber of Deputies bilateral committee is studying the different bills presented for the approval of the Dominican version of the Extinction of Domain Law. The law is in effect in many countries around the world as a key instrument to combat drug trafficking and corruption in government. The bill in general establishes that a …

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Dozens of persons learned the hard way that people need to file e-tickets before traveling. The e-ticket has Covid-19 related information as well as the usual information included in the traditional migration forms. The passengers seemed to be unaware that the airlines would not be boarding passengers that had not filed the documents online. The …

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The Specialized Corps for Land Border Security (Cesfront) reported seizing 110,000 units of cigarettes abandoned inside a vehicle left at a gas filling station in Dajabón on Tuesday, 31 August 2021. Cesfront C-2 agents confiscated the blue Honda SUV, license plate number G498901 at the gas station Los Cibaos, in the municipality of Partido, Dajabon …

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The spread of Covid-19 in the Dominican Republic continues under control. The authorities, nevertheless, are closely monitoring the virus and its variants. The national 4-week positivity rate for the 1 September 2021 epidemiological bulletin report is at 5.85%, down from the previous day. The 24-hour positivity for the day is 9.08%, up from the day …

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