2025 – Page 67

President Luis Abinader dedicated the first part of the La Semanal press conference on Monday, 14 April 2025 to honor the 565 rescue workers who participated in the gruesome effort to save people and recover corpses after the roof of the JetSet Club collapsed in the capital city at 12:44am on Tuesday, 8 April 2025. …

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The Joint Task Force reported that the number of people who died in the JetSet Club roof collapse that occurred early on 8 April 2025 at the JetSet nightclub has risen to 231. 221 died in the disaster area and 10 in hospitals. The task force highlighted the efforts of the institutions involved in the …

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The owner of the nightclub where 231 persons lost their lives after the roof collapsed on 8 April 2025 is also a mega radio station businessman. N Digital reports that Antonio Espaillat Lopez is the second-largest owner of radio frequencies in the Dominican Republic. He is only surpassed by Juan Ramón Gómez Díaz who owns …

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Antonio Espaillat, the owner of the JetSet Club, where so far 231 persons died as a consequence of the concrete roof collapse, has yet to appear for a TV program or the media. He has only sent written and videotaped messages to the general public. His whereabouts have not been made known by the local …

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The National Forensic Institute has issued death certificates without the place of the death, when the corpses were taken from the JetSet Club to the Inacif for the autopsies. The death certificate just lists the address of Av. Independencia Km 6, El Portal neighborhood, a large area. Noticias SIN reports on the perceived irregularity. The …

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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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