2025 – Page 145

Three teams of Dominican university students participated this year in the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI) 2025 Undergraduate Seismic Design Competition. The event gathered 48 university teams from all over the world. It took place from 31 March to 3 April 2025 at the University of California, Berkeley. Unibe, PUCMM and Intec sent teams this …

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NASA has announced the winning student teams in the 2025 Human Exploration Rover Challenge and the Instituto Tecnologico de Santo Domingo (Intec) team is a big winner with five first places and one second place award. Two awards this year went to the Don Bosco polytechnical school in Santo Domingo. This year’s competition challenged teams …

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Mario Vargas Llosa, the renowned Peruvian writer and Nobel laureate, passed away on 13 April 2025 in Lima, Peru. He was a Peruvian, Spanish and Dominican citizen (2023). In his writing, Vargas Llosa has reflected on aspects of Latin American politics and history, including those of the Dominican Republic. One of the most significant references …

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The devastating JetSet Club tragedy, claiming over 226 lives, serves as a too painful reminder of the urgent need to move beyond a deep-seated culture of wishful thinking and negligence in the Dominican Republic towards proactive prevention. The prevailing culture manifests itself in the reliance on divine protection rather than diligent enforcement of standards to …

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Among those killed in the JetSet tragedy of 8 April 2025 was the son of former president of the Senate and today Minister of Public Works Eduardo Estrella, 35-year old Eduardo Guarionex Estrella Cruz. Estrella Cruz served as Vice Minister for Cooperation and International Relations at the Ministry of Housing. Estrella Cruz is survived by …

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President Luis Abinader early on designated highly respected engineer Leonardo Reyes Madera to lead the investigations of the collapse of the roof of the JetSet Club. Reyes Madera is the director of the National Office for Seismic and Structure Vulnerability (Onesvie). Amid concerns in the general public that the “clean up” of the site would …

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In an interview with Tony Dandrade (producer of Primer Impacto, Univisión), Zulinka Perez, the daughter of Rubby Perez, who was performing at the JetSet Club on 8 April 2025, the night when the roof collapsed, denied the versions that Rubby Perez had survived the tragedy. The media had reported that he was found because he …

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As of 2am of Tuesday, 8 April 2025, the National Forensic Sciences Institute (Inacif) was against the worst catastrophe handled in its history. The collapse of the roof of the JetSet Club presented an unprecedented challenge the pathologists were not prepared for. The corpses would be delivered to the Inacif to carry out the autopsies …

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There are seven medical doctors among the fatal victims of the JetSet Club tragedy that so far has claimed 226 persons. The doctors and their family were enjoying the concert by Rubby Perez when the roof collapsed on them. CDN reports that the doctors practiced various medical specialties and testimonies all speak of their dedication …

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New York City Mayor Eric Adams arrived to Santo Domingo on Sunday, 13 April for a two-day visit to stand in solidarity with the Dominican community. New York City is regarded as the second largest city in number of Dominicans, with around 700,000 residents, or 8% of the population. “As the mayor of the city …

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