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The Presidency announced three days of mourning for the death of former First Lady Rosa Gomez (Doña Rosa). Gomez was First Lady when Hipólito Mejía was president (2000-2004). She died due to a heart attack on 21 March 2022. Gomez is also the mother of capital city mayor, Carolina Mejía who is the secretary of …

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Attorney General Miriam German Brito has appointed Deputy Attorney General Rodolfo Espiñeira to lead the investigations into reports that former Attorney General Jean Alain Rodriguez withheld information on the David Ortiz attempted murder case. As reported in Hoy, Espiñeira initiated the procedures to have formal access to the report by the private investigation ordered by …

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The Public Prosecutor’s Office of Elías Piña province on the border with Haiti occupied a land cargo of 5,700 ammunition for rifles on Monday, 21 March 2022 in the surroundings of the Palace of Justice of the city of Elías Piña. Through a press release, the Elías Piña chief prosecutor, Ramil Cadete Pérez, said that …

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Despite a career filled with accusations and sentences for crime and corruption, the infamous Dominican Army military best known as “Pepe Goico” was promoted and retired as a general in 2019. This week, former Minister of Defense Ruben Dario Paulino Sem confirmed that in 2019, Pepe Goico was promoted to general and then placed in …

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Chris Martin and Will Champion of the Coldplay British rock band took time off from their concert preparation schedule to visit the Nigua Ecological Park on Monday 21 March 2022. British Ambassador Mockbul Ali accompanied them. Environment Minister Orlando Jorge Mera and Culture Minister Milagros German were also present for the activity that included environmentalists …

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A first-time audiovisual art experience will open 6 April 2022 in an area of 550 square meters at the Plaza de España in the Colonial City. The innovative presentation of the works of surrealist artist Ivan Tovar will be the country’s first immersive exhibition. 3D and 2D projection technologies, lighting and sound effects will present …

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Dominican baseball player Juan Soto reportedly received a US$17.1 million one-year deal with the Washington Nationals at the MLB arbitration deadline. Soto had passed up the team’s previous 13-year contract for US$350 million. Twenty-three-year-old Soto had batted .313 with 29 homers and 95 RBIs in the past season. During the short 2020 season, he led …

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The Ministry of Public Health Coronavirus Bulletin #733 with the deadline of 21 March 2022 reports 122 new cases, up from 16 on the previous day. In the first 21 days of March there have been only six deaths in a population of around 11 million. The death rate is at 0.76%, one of the …

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President Abinader returned at 11pm on Monday, 21 March 2022 after an intense day in San José, Costa Rica where he traveled for what is now regarded as the IV Summit of the Alliance for Development in Democracy (ADD). ADD is the regional alliance between President Abinader and his colleagues President Carlos Alvarado Quesada of …

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The former First Lady of the Republic, Rosa Altagracia Gómez Arias, wife of former President Hipólito Mejía (2000-2004), died last night of a heart attack. She had turned 82 on 11 March 2022. Doña Rosa, as she was popularly known, was an active First Lady with intense actions in favor of children, social assistance and …

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