2022 – Page 79

The Ministry of Public Health says that spiders of different species are common insects in the country, and coexist in farming areas, houses, vacant lots and others. The Ministry, nevertheless, says people should seek medical care in the case of a suspected insect bite that becomes infected. Vice Minister of Collective Health Eladio Perez said …

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Santiago Hazim, director of SeNaSa, the state health insurance provider, was in Miami, Florida, USA to inaugurate a new Senasa office. An estimated 200,000 Dominicans live in the state of Florida. Senasa is offering health insurance plans to the Dominican diaspora. Previous offices have been opened in New York, New Jersey and Philadelphia. The new …

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The new commander of the Dominican Republic Army, Major General Carlos Antonio Fernández Onofre has had nothing to say regarding accusations by a senator and mayors in Dajabon, Jimaní and Pedro Santana in the border region with Haiti on unofficial tolls charged to transporters carrying undocumented Haitians. The tolls would be required at military stations …

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The provincial director of Elías Piña of the General Border Development Agency, Ramón Antonio Capellán acknowledges that the International Highway that divides the Dominican Republic and Haiti is in major disrepair, as reported in N Digital. The road connects the towns of Pedro Santana, in the South, with Restauración, Dajabón province, to the North, some …

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Bolivar Antonio Ventura Rodriguez’s name appears in the Hacienda (Treasury), Oisoe and Antipulpo corruption files. State contractor Bolivar Antonio Ventura Rodriguez, who has admitted to paying bribes of RD$527 million to get paid by the Ministry of Hacienda under Minister Donald Guerrero, is also included in the corruption files prepared for the Anti-Pulpo (Anti-Octopus), and …

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The former president of the National Drug Control Agency (DNCD), 59-year old Felix Alburquerque Comprés was sent to a year of preventive custody at the Najayo-Men jail for the death of the sports communicator Manuel Taveras Duncan. Judge of Permanent Attention of the National District, Juan Francisco Rodríguez Consoró accepted the request for preventive custody …

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The Police is investigating the assault to the home of Cesar Diaz Filpo, a former Azua senator in the Santo Domingo. Diaz Filpo is the husband of the incumbent senator for Azua, Lia Ynocencia Diaz Santana for the ruling Modern Revolutionary Party (PRM). Lia Ynocencia Diaz was not home at the time. The assault was …

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Cemex announces it is producing cement using hydrogen technology at its integrated San Pedro De Macoris cement plant. The Mexican company chief executive officer Fernando A Gonzalez was in the Dominican Republic to make the announcement. The company announced in a press release that hydrogen is a key technology with many potential benefits for the …

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RD Fashion Week is happening at the Epic Center of the JW Marriot, located in Blue Mall on Av. Winston Churchill. Giannina Azar collection opened the fashion show on 30 August 2022. The organizers have programmed the runway shows through Sunday, 4 September. Fashion designers Claudia Avedaño, Daniella Batlle, Julio González and Juan Pablo Socarrás …

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The number of Covid-19 cases for Bulletin #895 was 409, up from 216 on the previous day. This number compares to the seven-day average of daily infections (confirmed lab-reported cases) that is now 259, up from the previous day. The number of active cases is 1,560, up from 1,292 on the previous day, and 1,207 …

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