2022 – Page 167

President Luis Abinader was at the Multimodal Port Caucedo for the ceremony marking the start of construction of a temperature-controlled warehouse. Multimodal Port Caucedo is the country’s largest port. Customs Agency (DGA) director, Eduardo Sanz said during the ground-breaking that the warehouse contributes to the positioning of the Dominican Republic as the logistics hub of …

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Political party representatives are again active in work sessions of the Economic and Social Council on electoral reform. Both Political Party Law 33-18 and Electoral Regime Law 15-19 required numerous amendments by the Superior Electoral Court and the Constitutional Court into the 2020 general elections. Now the Central Electoral Board (JCE) seeks these laws to …

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Academia used its pull and worked for the collective good. On Monday, 25 April 2022 in the evening, the rector of the Universidad Católica Nordestana (UCNE), Isaac García de la Cruz and the director of the extension of the state university, Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo (UASD), Miguel Medina Liriano, met with representatives of the …

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Diario Libre is following the controversial nomination of the governor of Campeche state in Mexico, Carlos Miguel Aysa Gonzalez as Mexican ambassador to the Dominican Republic. Aysa Gonzalez describes himself as a baseball aficionado and trusts that President Alvaro Lopez Obrador will visit the Dominican Republic in his term as ambassador. The Dominican government has …

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Authorities in Puerto Plata reported the temporary interruption of traffic from Puerto Plata to Sosúa on the north coast due to a structural failure of the Sabaneta de Cangrejos Bridge over the Camú River, near the Puerto Plata International Airport. As reported in El Caribe, residents say the bridge broke due to a lack of …

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At least two dead is the toll of the fire that affected the Channel 6, Canal del Sol installations at Cub Scouts 19 in the Naco neighborhood of Santo Domingo. The building was under renovation. An explosion was heard at 3pm, followed by a major fire. Four workers were hospitalized due to severe burns and …

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Juan Furcal, father of Franyelis Maria Furcal, the 30-year old woman who a video captured stabbing her Chinese supervisor, 34-year old Jhei Leet at a Av. Duarte hardware store, speculates his daughter could have been made “chofan.” He says she has not contacted the family. The family has not heard from her and her whereabouts …

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The National Drug Control Agency (DNCD) agents and Navy men reported the seizing of 1,402 packages of cocaine from two speedboats that were intercepted on coastal waters of San Pedro de Macoris and Santo Domingo. Eight people were arrested, including five Venezuelans, one Colombian and two Dominicans in the operation. The DNCD is on a …

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The Ministry of Public Health Coronavirus Bulletin #768 with the deadline of 25 April 2022 reports 63 new lab-reported cases. This is up from 35 on the previous day. The number of active cases is 301, up from 288 on the day before. There were no deaths reported. The death rate is at 0.76%, one …

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Santiago did not adhere to the 48-hour work stoppage and this means after a partial strike affected the city on Monday, 25 April, much is back to normal. The work and school strike continues today in San Francisco de Macorís, the other important Cibao city. The old stye of vandalism and violent protests has thus …

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