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The Dominican Medical Association (CMD) is encouraging patients and physicians to move to the governmental Senasa health plan. Senasa offers the highest coverage in the country. So far, in a move to foster better conditions than those offered by big business-owned health plan intermediaries (ARSs), the CMD has announced that its members will not accept …

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The UN Security Council on Friday, 21 October 2022 unanimously approved a sanctions regime for Haiti, targeting gang leaders and those who finance them. The sanctions seek to ease months of violence and lawlessness that have fueled a major multidimensional crisis. Criminal gangs have been blocking access to the main fuel terminal in the capital …

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Shots were fired on Friday, 21 October 2022 as Haitian police worked to disperse a crowd of demonstrators blocking the road to the border in Dajabon province in the Dominican Republic, impeding the binational market from functioning as normal. Media reports were that the demonstration had been going on for almost a whole day when …

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The head of the Migration Agency (DGM), Venancio Alcantara Valdez, told reporters on Saturday, 22 October 2022 that his people were hard at work on the control and deportation of persons who enter the country illegally. He stressed that the Dominican Republic is a sovereign nation, with laws, and will not allow any foreigner to …

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Minister for Public Health Daniel Rivera reported that the first confirmed case of cholera in the Dominican Republic after the September 2022 outbreak in Haiti was located in the province of La Altagracia. A 32-year old Haitian woman who had arrived from Port-au-Prince, Haiti some two weeks ago brought the disease with her. The Ministry …

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Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom was vacationing in a Dominican beach resort with his family when informed that incumbent Prime Minister Liz Truss had resigned. The media then reported that Johnson cut short his holiday with family to return to London on Saturday, 22 October 2022. Johnson was seen at Gatwick International Airport …

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The Ministry of Interior & Police ordered businesses in the Santo Domingo North municipality of Villa Mella to stop selling alcohol after midnight. The measure is levied as authorities take actions to reduce violent crime in the district. The sale of alcoholic beverages is now limited from 8am to 12 midnight. The Ministry of Interior …

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La Altagracia Transit judge Gregorio Torres Spencer ordered a year of preventive custody to Franklin Nin Perez, the driver of the Suero Servi Bus that slid to its side killing five tourists on 6 October 2022. The ruling was issued on 19 October 2022, after several postponements. The fatal accident occurred when the driver took …

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The USGS/University of Puerto Rico reported a 4.7 intensity earthquake at 8.755°N 68.733°W, or 13 km from La Otra Banda near Higuey in La Altagracia province. The earthquake epicenter was at a depth of 119 km. It occurred at 5:05am on Sunday, 23 October 2022. The UASD university seismological center registered the earthquake at 5.0 …

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Miami Marlins pitcher Sandy Alcántara is the winner of the second edition of the Juan Marichal Award for the most outstanding pitcher in the MLB baseball regular season. The award honors Juan Marichal, the first Dominican baseball player to enter the MLB Cooperstown Baseball Hall of Fame. The runner ups were Albert Pujols, Many Machado, …

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