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The National Energy Commission (CNE) signed the definitive concession agreement for Energia Renovable BAS SRL to build the 50-MW/73.2-MWp Washington Capital Solar Park 3. The company will invest US$80 million in the project. The power is sold to the national electricity grid. The solar farm concession is for 25 years and is to be located …

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The accusatory file establishes that the outcome of the big procurement tenders carried out by the Attorney General Office under former Attorney General Jean Alain Rodriguez were decided beforehand. The “winners” committed to pay at least 20% for the privilege. Chief prosecutor Wilson Camacho is talking about RD$1 billion in paid bribes. With the presentation …

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The Public Prosecutor’s Office has imposed three months of preventive imprisonment against Alain José Gómez Luna, accused of operating two illegal financial entities with which he is accused of financial fraud. Judge Jose Consoró, of the Permanent Attention Court of the National District, ordered Alain José Gómez Luna to serve three months preventive custody in …

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Dominican athletes won 72 medals, including 19 gold in the recently concluded Bolivarian Games in Valledupar, Colombia. The Dominican Republic had won 68 medals when the games were held in 2017. Dominican athletes won gold in track and field, boxing, judo, karate, swimming, table tennis, horse riding, softball, gymnastics, skeet and water skiing. Of the …

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The number of Covid-19 cases for Bulletin #837 was 874, down 1,317 on the previous day. This number compares to the 7-day nationwide average for confirmed lab-reported cases that is now 1,044, down from the previous day. Ronald Skewes, director of Epidemiology at the Ministry of Public Health says that in context the increase in …

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Remnants of a tropical wave and a passing trough continue to bring rains and seasonal low temperatures nationwide. The Center for Emergency Operations (COE) has issued a yellow alert for thirteen provinces and a green alert for five. The rains are causing flooding of rivers, streams and creeks, and flash urban flooding. The rains could …

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The European Union delegation in the Dominican Republic honored Attorney General Miriam Germán Brito with the European Human Rights Award on Friday, 1 July 2022. Ambassador Katja Afheldt of the European Union presented the award to the former Supreme Court of Justice penal judge Miriam Germán, today the country’s top prosecutor in a ceremony appropriately …

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President Luis Abinader and Administrative Minister of the Presidency Jose Ignacio Paliza both have spoken up on the will of the government to push the Extinction of Domain legislation through Congress. The ruling Modern Revolutionary Party (PRM) has the votes to pass the anti-narcotics and government corruption bill. The present legislative period closes in 22 …

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Residential and small business electricity will cost more starting July 2022. The general increase will be about 9% for modest users. Heavier consumers, those consuming more than 700 kwh and using air-conditioning, for example, will see increases of about 7% in their monthly bills. This latest price hike is part of the government plan to …

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Working overtime, state prosecutors presented the formal accusation against former Attorney General Jean Alain Rodríguez Sánchez and accomplices to the First Instruction Court of the National District near midnight of Saturday, 2 July 2022, the deadline to do so. The Public Prosecutor’s Office presented the indictment against those involved in the so-named Medusa Operation. The …

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