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The Voice Dominicana announces its second season starts 12 June at 8pm. The reality show will air every Sunday on Telesistema, Channel 11. In this second edition, merengue queen Milly Quezada, current show champion, and Musicologo (Ygnacio Alberto Santiago Arias) return as judges and mentors. Merengue star Eddy Herrera and salsa singer Alex Matos replace …

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A Dominican athlete made the top 10 of the Augusta National Women’s Amateur for the first time during the competition held last week at the Champions Retreat Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia, USA. The tournament was played from 30 March to 2 April 2022. 20-year old Rachel Kuehn finished 7th in the tournament played by …

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The Ministry of Public Health Coronavirus Bulletin #747 with the deadline of 4 April 2022 reports 66 new cases, up from 44 on the previous day. For 21 consecutive days there have been no Covid-19 deaths reported. The death rate is at 0.76%, one of the lowest in the Americas. The 66 new cases in …

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President Luis Abinader and First Lady Raquel Arbaje attended the opening of the country’s first immersive art exhibition, “Ivan Tovar, Living Surrealism” at Plaza España in the Colonial City on Monday, 4 April 2022. The exhibition is open to the general public at Plaza España in the Colonial City from 6 April to 6 June. …

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The Central Bank says the Monthly Indicator of Economic Activity (IMAE) registered an average expansion of 6% in the first two months of 2022 compared to January and February in 2021. The Central Bank says the country is prepared to deal with adverse external shocks. The external shocks brought by the Covid-19 pandemic and exacerbated …

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The Dominican government seeks to change the contracted Covid-19 vaccines for pediatric vaccines. President Luis Abinader sent to Congress via the Senate an amendment to the contract with Pfizer Free Zone Panama for the supply of Covid-19 vaccines. These would be used for children 5 to 11 years old. The Dominican government contracted 9,999,990 units …

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The Dominican Embassy in India is working to open up new opportunities for student exchanges and joint academic research between the Dominican Republic and India. Dominican Ambassador David Puig says the embassy has been actively reaching out to academia in both countries. “We have been losing out as a country of the valuable opportunities to …

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New rules for employing house help are being debated. The Ministry of Labor is taking the lead and proposes rules in a resolution draft that is up for discussion. Nevertheless, legislators and experts say the resolution would not be valid because a law would have to be passed to supersede the rules for domestic help …

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It is normal that national and local authorities ignore laws prohibiting human settlements in highly vulnerable areas. As a result, there is a proliferation of human settlements around ravines, river basins and other vulnerable places, complains municipal expert Waldys Taveras. When there are heavy rains, the residents in these low-lying areas suffer the flooding of …

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The Traffic Agency (Digesett) says its agents wrote out 1,522,201 fines, more than double those issued in the pandemic year 2020 that were 614,808. In 2019, the number of fines issued were 1,003,852. The most common fines were violations of red lights (160,381) and transiting without updated insurance or license permits (116,138). In the case …

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