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Education Minister Roberto Fulcar has denied politics has anything to do with the contracting of public school teachers. Nevertheless, Diario Libre reports that Jose Sanchez, who is the president of the ruling Modern Revolutionary Party (PRM) in Santo Domingo East and a former director of the Instituto Tecnologico Superior Comunitario (ITSC), met with dozens of …

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To facilitate trade and eliminate technical barriers to binational trade between the Dominican Republic and Haiti, the director of the Dominican Institute for Quality (Indocal), Lorenzo Ramirez, and his counterpart, the director of the Haitian Bureau of Standards (BHN), Monorde Civil, held a working meeting and endorsed the agreements for the harmonization of standards and …

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The Norwegian Cruise Line ship, the Norwegian Escape, was leaving Taino Bay cruise terminal in Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic when the ship went aground on Monday, 14 March 2022 around 5pm. Puerto Plata was the first call for a seven-day Caribbean cruise that had started in Port Canaveral, Florida on 12 March. The ship was …

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Economist Frederic Emam Zade passed away when his lungs collapsed late on Sunday, 13 March following a long bout with Covid-19. He had spent several weeks in the intensive care unit of the Clínica Abreu. Emam Zade had refused to be vaccinated. He acknowledged he could catch the fast-spreading Omicron variant but firmly believed the …

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President Luis Abinader attended the inauguration of President Gabriel Boric Font of Chile and both statesmen took time to hold a bilateral meeting to discuss strengthening of relations and cooperation last Thursday, 10 March 2022. President Abinader returned late on Friday, 11 March 2022 to the Dominican Republic. President Abinader invited President Gabriel Boric Font …

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The Ministry of Superior Education reported that more than 8,000 people registered on the first day on the Ministry website to apply for one of 2,000 international scholarships sponsored by the government for 2022-2023. Applications are open through 31 March. As reported, there are 490 scholarship offers for bachelor’s degrees, specialties, master’s degrees and doctorates. …

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The Ministry of Public Health Coronavirus Bulletin #725 with the deadline of 13 March 2022 reports 57 new cases, down from 147 on the previous day. The death rate is at 0.76%, one of the lowest in the Americas. The nationwide average positivity is now 1.58%. The 57 new cases in Bulletin #725 compare to …

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The Dominican Association of Public Teachers (ADP) has no evidence that the appointments of teachers who won a position in the Teachers’ Competitive Examination are being carried out in violation of the order in which they were qualified in the tests and interviews, as reported in Diario Libre. Primitiva Medina, second vice-president of the National …

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Until recently, the huge health facility at the Luis Eduardo Aybar Health City, a designated unit for the treatment of the Covid-19 patients, will undergo a thorough cleansing and tidying up and begin receiving outpatient consultations in April 2022. The Cecanot (Edificio A) will now have even greater capacity for non-Covid patients. According to the …

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Vice President Raquel Peña says the Dominican Republic has the lowest Covid-19 mortality rate in the world at 0.4%. She made the announcement after official Covid-19 bulletins for three days straight have been reporting zero deaths. Vice President Peña participated in the opening of the Health Fair in Moca, Espaillat province. The fair promoted healthy …

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