2022 – Page 108

He’s a spectacle to watch. Dominican Hansel Emmanuel got a scholarship to play at the Life Christian Academy in Kissimee, Florida and took the team to the championship win. He then had Division-I offers from Memphis, Tennessee State and Bethune-Cookman to play in the NCAA’s Drew League. He selected Northwestern State in Natchitoches, Louisiana. Initial …

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The National Weather Office reports that the combination of the effects of a trough and the incidence of a tropical wave will continue to dominate the weather in the country. The trough is moving to Puerto Rico. The systems, meanwhile have produced moderate to heavy downpours at times, thunderstorms and wind gusts until the early …

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The number of Covid-19 cases for Bulletin #858 was 227, down from 354 on the previous day, and the lowest since 24 May 2022. This number compares to the seven-day average of daily infections (confirmed lab-reported cases) that is now 500, down from that of the previous day. The Ministry of Public Health confirmed the …

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President Luis Abinader sent two adjunct prosecutors he had previously named to the Attorney General Office to serve instead at the Unified Council of the Power Distributors (Consejo Unificado de las Empresas Distribuidoras de Electricidad). The decree was signed on Friday, 22 July 2022 and is the most recent of measures after a series of …

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President Luis Abinader ordered a freeze on the increases in power tariffs last Wednesday, 20 July 2022. Days before, Listin Diario had reported that while consumers were subject to major increases in power rates, the staff at the Superintendency of Electricity were also getting major increases, but to their wages. Protests over the hikes in …

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A political agreement was reached. The deputies of all parties voted yes to 37 amendments to the Extinction of Domain Bill that expedites the forfeiture of assets derived directly or indirectly from an illicit act carried out in the national territory or abroad. The deputies were reviewing the law received the previous week from the …

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Defense Minister Carlos Diaz Morfa hosted the meeting of the Superior Council of the Conference of Central American Armed Forces in Santo Domingo last week, and some of the conclusions were quite disturbing. The conference noted that the very unsettled conditions in Haiti provide the conditions which promote huge flows of migrants to all the …

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The Attorney General Office made official the passing of responsibilities to build jails to the Ministry of Housing, Habitat and Constructions (Ministerio de la Vivienda, Hábitat y Edificaciones – MIVHED). Attorney General Miriam German Brito praised the agreement signed with Carlos Bonilla Sanchez, head of the MIVHED, during a ceremony held in his office in …

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For the second time this 2022 a man was stopped at the frontier with a large amount of cash for which he had no proof of payment of taxes. In the latest incident, the Specialized Corps for Frontier Security (Cesfront) stopped the Haitian man with US$126,000 and RD$400,000, all in cash, and the fellow could …

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Fake news circulated last week that Somos Pueblo’s popular Eduardo Sanchez Tolentino (El Piro) had been killed in a shootout in Guaricano in northern Santo Domingo. Ricardo Ripoll and El Piro had led a protest against luxury wages and increases to officials in the government electricity sector at a time when the government is significantly …

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