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The mega works for the Abinader Administration in 2023 are the Santiago Monorail (RD$15 billion), the Santiago cable car (RD$4.5 billion), the Monte Grande Dam (RD$2.08 billion) and Line 2C of the Santo Domingo Metro (RD$8.35 billion), reports Diario Libre when analyzing the 2023 National Budget recently submitted by the Presidency. Greater Santo Domingo and …

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President Luis Abinader received on Tuesday, 4 October 2022 the credentials of the new ambassadors of Mexico, Germany and the Netherlands at the Presidential Palace. He was accompanied by Vice President Raquel Peña and Foreign Relations Minister Roberto Alvarez. The new ambassador of Mexico is lawyer and politician Miguel Aysa González, who previously had been …

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Diario Libre continues to follow up on wasteful spending practices at the Ministry of Education. A report on 5 October 2022 reveals that 8,000 employees are said to hold positions based at the Ministry of Education headquarters at Av. Maximo Gomez in Santo Domingo. The auditors told Diario Libre 8,000 employees is an excessive number. …

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The Museum of Dominican Man is hosting the 8th Museum of Dominican Museum of Man Congress of Archaeology and Anthropology from 12 to 15 October 2022. The presentations are scheduled to take place at the Museum of Modern Art in Plaza de la Cultura, Santo Domingo, next door to the Museum of Dominican Man. This …

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Rafael Guerrero of Corrupcion al Desnudo YouTube channel shares with his readers more footage of the Punta Cana International Airport surveillance video this time showing a group of three arriving with two suitcases that very much look like the red suitcases detained for investigation at the Punta Cana International Airport in mid September 2022. In …

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More updates are coming in as the Police investigates the murder of three senior adults at a farm ranch in Villa Isabela in western Puerto Plata. The lead suspect is a Haitian farm worker. Listin Diario reports that the Police is looking for a Haitian identified as 37-year old Alfonso Fiseme, alias “Blanco” or “Blanqué”, …

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Dominican poet and essayist Soledad Álvarez was awarded on 4 October the XXII Casa de América Prize for American Poetry for her work, “Despues de tanto arder.” The jury praised Alvarez for being capable of using intimacy as its own space from which to observe our world ravaged by wars and pandemics and to reflect …

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Domino-playing is a passion in the Dominican Republic. Listin Diario reports that Miguel Torres, a native of San Cristobal province, is the new Femundo 2022 World Domino Champion. Torres won the title during the 3rd World Domino Championship Santo Domingo 2022 organized by the International Domino Federation The championship was held Friday, 30 September to …

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The Dominican Republic lost to the United States at the start of the second phase of the 2022 FIVB Volleyball Women’s World Championship. In its 19th edition, the tournament is ongoing from 4-9 October in Rotterdam, Netherlands and Lodz, Poland. The DR is one of 16 of the 24 national teams that started the 2022 …

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The 4-week Covid-19 positivity rate continues to drop and is now at 3.03%, with the 24-hour positivity at 10.79% as of Covid-19 Bulletin #929 dated 3 October 2022. The number of Covid-19 registered cases in the Dominican Republic for Bulletin #929 was 100 up from 80 on the previous day. The seven-day average (confirmed lab-reported …

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