2022 – Page 147

The Boston Celtics defeated the Miami Heats, 100-96 to advance to the finals of the NBA Eastern Conference. The Boston Celtics will play in the NBA Finals for the first time since 2010 after the win in game 7 on Sunday, 29 May 2022 night. Al Horford, “the old man” will finally get a shot …

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The number of cases has been steadily increasing. Yet there was a breather over the weekend. The number of cases for Bulletin #801 was 264, down from 466 on the day before. This number compares to the 7-day nationwide average for confirmed lab-reported cases that is 296. The Ministry of Public Health recommends people to …

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The number of cases has been steadily increasing. The number of cases for Bulletin #799 is now 500, up from 324 on the day before. This number compares to the 7-day nationwide average for confirmed lab-reported cases that is 220. The Ministry of Public Health recommends people to get the third and fourth booster vaccines. …

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The number of cases has been steadily increasing. The number of cases for Bulletin #798 is now 324, up from 222 on the day before. This number compares to the 7-day nationwide average for confirmed lab-reported cases that is 164. The Ministry of Public Health recommends people to get the third and fourth booster vaccines. …

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President Luis Abinader returned last night to the Dominican Republic, arriving last night on a Condor flight to Punta Cana. President Abinader had traveled on 20 May and returned on 25 May 2022. In Switzerland, he participated in Geneva in events of the World Health Organization and in Davos, in the World Economic Forum. At …

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The Ministry of Public Health announced the availability of a third dose for children 12 to 17 years old during the Wednesday, 25 May 2022 press conference. Reports are that many children have been infected in recent weks. The vaccinating of children is voluntary in the Dominican Republic and requires parental authorization. The Ministry of …

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Teófilo (Quico) Tabar is throwing in the towel, saying he has been unable to regularize the betting sector. In an op-ed in Hoy newspaper, he writes of how persons of power in the sector have refused to comply with the regularization requirements that require the betting shops’ owners to declare their financial situation in a …

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Attorney General Miriam German Brito responded to claims of major corruption involving the police and military in jails nationwide, ordering her prosecutors to investigate Attorney General ignored the claims of major corruption in the jails and justified the delays in the use of the La Parras (La Nueva Victoria) jail arguing that Las Parras is …

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In an interview with Ana Mitila Lora and Rosa Encarnación for El Despertador, the morning Channel 9 TV news show, Mirna Ortiz, the coordinator of litigation for the Attorney General Office’s Specialized Administrative Corruption Prosecution Division (Pepca), explained the division is investigating over 700 corruption cases. Among these is what is known as Odebrecht 2.0. …

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The Police director in Santiago, the second largest city in the Dominican Republic, was replaced on 25 May 2022. The action follows weeks of an increase in crime in the province and controversial human rights violations by the Police themselves. In one of the most publicized stories, the former Santiago Police chief, General Ernesto Rodriguez, …

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