2022 – Page 99

There have been three major accidents at the Cormidom subterranean mine in Cerros de Maimón, reports Diario Libre. In the first two cases, two Dominican mine workers died. In the third, the miners have survived a rock collapse but are trapped underground. The mine activity has been closed for the company to concentrate on the …

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President Luis Abinader named two prosecutors accepting recommendations made by Attorney General Miriam German Brito. The prosecutors are José Vitervo Enrique Cabral González and Isis Germania de la Cruz Duarte. They replace the resigning Rafael L. Suárez Pérez and Edwin Acosta Suárez, both appointed on 16 August 2020. Read more in Spanish:Diario Libre 4 August …

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The Homicide Investigations Department of the Police, working in coordination with the Public Prosecutor’s Office, has a main suspect in the death of a 45-year old dentist, Lyda Josefina Amell Bogart. The Police say homicide investigators await the results of the autopsy. The woman’s body was found in the back seat of her Dodge Durango’s …

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Team Dominican Republic is playing in round two of the World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC)’s U12 Baseball World Cup in Tainan, Taiwan, 29 July – 7 August 2022 at the Asia-Pacific International Baseball Stadium. The DR is playing in Group B. The standings are DR (3-1) is in group B with USA (4-0), South Korea …

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With Juan Soto joining the San Diego Padres, that team is likely to become THE Dominican favorite to watch. Juan Soto and Fernando Tatis Jr are contemporaries. They played together as teenagers when they were 15 and 16. They will now be catching up on the friendship. Commenting on the trade, Fernando Tatis says he …

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The number of Covid-19 cases for Bulletin #867 was 619 down from 772 on the previous day. This number compares to the seven-day average of daily infections (confirmed lab-reported cases) that is now 510, up from that of the previous day. The 24-hour positivity was 20.88%, down from the day before, and the 4-week positivity …

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First Lady Raquel Arbaje joined Rosa Elcarte, Unicef resident representative in the Dominican Republic are working together to get more Dominican mothers to breastfeed their babies at birth. Arbaje spoke at the Presidential Palace on 2 August on occasion of the World Breastfeeding Day. She spoke of her experience breastfeeding her three daughters. She stressed …

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The Ministry of Education purchasing continues to make headlines. Diario Libre reports on 3 August 2022 that journalist Tania Molina when covering a recent purchase of digital books for public schools learned that the person designated as one of the two partners of tender winning School Teams SRL, Primitivo Santos, has denied knowing anything about …

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While Dominicans saw their budgets dwindling due to rising inflation, the financial officials of the Abinader administration benefitted from significant wage increases. What is most shocking, though, is that the wages were already very high and are already in violation of Dominiccan law. Dominican law establishes that it is illegal to make more than the …

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The Puerto Plata Aqueduct and Sewer Corporation (Coraapplata) announces RD$135 million will be invested to solve in the short and long term needs for drinking water and sanitary system situations in the municipality of Sosua. Oliver Nazario Brugal, director of Coraapplata, met with community and business leaders to explain the plan for the new water …

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