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President Luis Abinader met on Wednesday, 14 September 2022 at the Capitol Hill in Washington, DC with the US Speaker of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi for more than half an hour. Also present for the Dominican Republic were Minister of Foreign Relations Roberto Alvarez, Ambassador Sonia Guzman and Jose Singer Weisinger, honorary advisor …

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Three of the five members of the Chamber of Accounts (CC) plenary signed an agreement to consolidate a Chamber of Accounts at the service of transparency and institutionalism on 14 September 2022. Upon signing the document, the three members agreed to a purge of human resources at the institution. The agreement is signed amid strange …

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Acting President Raquel Peña was in Boca Chica for the inauguration of the frozen warehouse at the Grupo Rannik free zone logistics center at the Multimodal Port Caucedo Logistics Center. The frozen warehouse has capacity for 2,400 pallet positions. Jeffrey Rannik and Jaak Rannik hosted the Vice President and other officials, including Eduardo Sanz Lovatón, …

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The National District Plan, “Park Right” was launched on 14 September 2022 in Santo Domingo. The goal is that people read the signs that say “no parking” and believe them. The effort seeks to put a stop to parallel parking that is hogging up streets, especially in the Polígono Central, the most important commercial and …

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The Ministry of Education confirms it will pay private schools a US$500 bonus for registering students that have not found places in public schools. Education Minister Angel Hernandez says the cost is much less than the US$1,800 per student cost of students in the public system. He said the program seeks to place 136,000 students …

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The Ministry of Education was defrauded of RD$126 million, as reported in Diario Libre. The Ministry has only received 15,000 school desks of 187,000 contracted under former Minister of Education Roberto Furcal. Furcal was removed after two years of the media publishing a long list of irregularities in tenders. He was never tried in the …

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The director of the National Statistics Office (ONE), Miosotis Rivas Peña says that the National Census calls for the collecting of data on all people who habitually reside in the country, regardless of whether they are legal or illegal migrants. The 10th National Population and Housing Census 2022 will be held from 10 to 23 …

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The Danish press reports that leading candidate to Prime Minister of Denmark, Soren Pape Poulsen will divorce his Dominican husband. The couple had been together since 2013 and had married in 2021. Poulsen made the announcement on his Facebook page on 14 September 2022. The announcement follows weeks of Danish media probing into the personal …

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The 9th Dominican History Book Fair will take place this coming October at the headquarters of the General Archives of the Nation. The fair is held to encourage reading and to contribute to the knowledge of national history for all Dominicans. The cultural activity will take place from 24 to 28 October 2022. The event’s …

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The Dominican Republic will be the co-host for seven sports for the Central America and the Caribbean Games next year in San Salvador, El Salvador from 23 June to 8 July 2022. The DR will host the taekwondo, modern pentathlon, equestrian, rowing, skeet, racquetball and field hockey events. The same venues are being prepared to …

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