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The XXX Pan American Junior Badminton Championship opens in Santo Domingo on 14 July 2022. The tournament gathers around 350 young athletes from 13 countries. Competitions will be in the U-13, U-15, U-17, U-19 and team categories. The tournament awards 3,000 points for the world ranking. Aruba, Barbados, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala, Jamaica, …

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The number of Covid-19 cases for Bulletin #845 was 628, down from 1,095 on the previous day. This number compares to the seven-day average of daily infections (confirmed lab-reported cases) is now 993, down from that of the previous day. Ronald Skewes, director of Epidemiology at the Ministry of Public Health says that in context …

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President Luis Abinader appointed Joel Adrián Santos Echavarría to be Acting Minister of the Presidency as per Decree 378-22. Joel Santos had served as advisor on tourism to the Executive Branch from the start of the Abinader administration in August 2020. Santos replaces Lisandro Macarrulla who has taken an indefinite leave of absence after he …

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Vice President Raquel Peña swore in Pavel Isa Contreras on Monday, 11 July 2022 as Minister of Economy. He replaces Miguel Ceara-Hatton who was named Minister of Environment. The new Minister of Economy, Planning and Development, Pavel Isa Contreras says he is committed to continue to implement the design of public policies aimed at raising …

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The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) indicates in its recently published annual report, ”The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2022,” that there has been a significant reduction in the levels of undernourishment (hunger) in the Dominican Republic in 2021. Despite the pandemic, the country reports an undernourishment …

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As journalists and people browse through the more than 12,000 pages of the accusatory file presented by state prosecutors against former Attorney General Jean Alain Rodríguez Sánchez, the details are coming out on the story of unbridled corruption and ambition. The actual hearings have yet to commence. Deals prosecutors have reached with several of the …

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The Dominican Republic placed in the top 15 in the world in the FIBA U17 Basketball World Cup 2022. The Dominican under 17 years team defeated Japan to place 13th of 32 countries in the FIBA championship. The USA won its 16th edition of the tournament. The results reflect the advances and gains in the …

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The number of Covid-19 cases for Bulletin #844 was 1,095 up from 725 on the previous day. This number compares to the seven-day average of daily infections (confirmed lab-reported cases) is now 1,042, up from that of the previous day. Ronald Skewes, director of Epidemiology at the Ministry of Public Health says that in context …

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A month after the murder of then Environment Minister Orlando Jorge Mera in his office at the Ministry of Environment, President Luis Abinader appointed his replacement. In the meantime, President Abinader had named Vice President Raquel Peña to be acting Minister of Environment. Vice President Raquel Peña herself swore in her replacement on Friday, 8 …

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President Luis Abinader met with his cabinet and worked on the 2023 budget over the weekend. The staggering 13 number figure of the total budget (RD$1,214,606,007,369) is the second straight trillion peso budget of the Abinader administration. It appears that the $1.2 trillion peso budget will include a 3% deficit. This is similar to this …

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