2022 – Page 41

Competing in the U-15 division, 15-year old Rafael Cabrera is ranked 12th in the world in the U-15 and 1st in the Americas region in the same category. He has been ranked 9th. In the Dominican Republic, in December 2021, he defeated all local contestants to be named the national overall best table tennis player. …

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It is the time to pick up some spectacular pointsettia, the traditional Christmas time flower or a special orchid. The National Botanical Gardens presents the National Flower and Plant Festival from Friday, 28 October to Sunday, 30 October 2022. This is a truly major event for horticulturalists, orchid lovers, florists, and nursery owners and the …

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The Compañía Lírica Nacional presents Italian Gaetano Donizetti’s Rita (Deux hommes et une femme), a comedy making light of domestic violence. The Santo Domingo performances will be in Spanish on Friday, 4 November and Saturday, 5 November 2022 and Sunday, 6 November at the Manuel Rueda Hall of the National Music Conservatory, Av. Cesar Nicolas …

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The 4-week Covid-19 positivity rate continues to drop and now is at 1.11%, with the 24-hour positivity at 1.46% as of Covid-19 Bulletin #951 dated 25 October 2022. Nevertheless, virus expert Roberto Paulino, director of the Tropical Medicine and Global Health Institute at the Universidad Iberoamericana in Santo Domingo, says that physicians in the Dominican …

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The executive director of the National Council for Children and Adolescents (Conani), Alexandra Santelices is telling about efforts to get all babies registered when they are born in public hospitals. The Dominican civil registration gives parents a month to register their children. If they do so afterwards, the process is tedious and this results in …

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Pro Dominicana, the government export and investment agency, announced the availability of two new online tools to foster exports and investments. These are the VUI, the one-stop window for processing government red tape, and the iGuide, the other innovative platform for those interested in doing business in the Dominican Republic. Biviana Riveiro Disla, executive director …

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The 10th National Population and Housing Census is set for 10 to 23 November 2022 nationwide. The general director of the National Statistics Office (ONE), Miosotis Rivas is making media rounds to encourage Dominicans to participate in the data collecting exercise. She said she will be polling President Luis Abinader at his residence on 10 …

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Foreign Relations Minister Roberto Alvarez honored outgoing Colombia ambassador Daniel Alberto Cabrales Castillo with the Order of Merit of Duarte, Sánchez and Mella in the Grade of Grand Silver Cross in a ceremony at the Ministry of Foreign Relations on Tuesday, 25 October 2022. The decoration was granted by President Luis Abinader, in Decree No. …

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Jonathan Hatwell, European Union’s European External Action Service (EEAS) head of division for Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean told Diario Libre in an interview that the European Union will “not leave the Dominican Republic to fend for itself” in dealing with finding solutions to the multidimensional crisis in Haiti. Hatwell says it understands that …

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Looking for an exemplary case of wasteful spending in government? Look no further. The Abinader administration’s Propeep-managed literacy program will do. On 28 April 2021, Minister Jose Leonel (Neney) Cabrera, in charge of Strategic Special Projects for the Presidency, had announced the relaunching of the National Learn to Read and Write Plan (Quisqueya Aprende Contigo). …

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