2023

Vice President Raquel Peña will travel on an official visit to Japan and South Korea. Earlier the Presidency had announced President Abinader would visit South Korea in April. Likewise, the Embassy of Japan had issued a press release regarding an official visit of President Abinader to Tokyo in April. The Presidency reports the mission to …

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Vice President Raquel Peña traveled on Tuesday, 28 March 2023 to Panama to participate in ExpoComer. She was scheduled to be the keynote speaker at the 39th International Commercial Exhibition (ExpoComer). She returned on the same day. The Minister of Industry & Commerce Víctor Bisonó accompanied her. The Vice President was at the ProDominicana, the …

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Diario Libre reports that the power barge property of the Turkish company, Karandeniz Powership has docked in Azua. The ship would generate 170 megawatts to boost power availability and enable maintenance works of other power plants. Diario Libre reports that the ship is docked in an environmentally-vulnerable area. Earlier efforts to dock in Azua were …

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During the Wednesday, 29 March 2023 press conference, the Ministry of Public Health said that the World Health Organization recommendation is for people to have had three doses of Covid-19 vaccine. In the Dominican Republic, most of the population that has received three vaccines, has received two doses of Sinovac and one dose of Pfizer. …

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US President Joe Biden praised the Dominican Republic for efforts to fight corruption. The remark was part of his keynote address at the Summit for Democracy 2023. On Wednesday, 29 March 2023, the Summit for Democracy’s five co-hosts — the United States, Costa Rica, Netherlands, Republic of Korea, and Zambia — kicked off the summit, …

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The director of the Technical Executing Unit for the Titling of State Lands (Utect), Mérido Torres said on Wednesday, 29 March 2023 that he is willing to submit himself to the scrutiny of “whoever and however he wants” to demonstrate that he has no links whatsoever to the criminal acts association to the Operation Calamar …

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Many Dominican legislators are owners of sports betting businesses. Now legislators mentioned in the Operation Squid file, a mega state fraud case, say they were victims of extortion. The Operation Squid file reveals that Ramón – Mimilo – Jimenez, Fernando Crisostomo, Jose Arturo Ureña and Jose Pablo Ortiz Giraldo set up a structure for extortion …

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The trial against Fausto Miguel de Jesús Cruz de la Mota, the confessed murderer of the former Minister of the Environment Orlando Jorge Mera, is now set to start on 25 April 2023. Cruz de la Mota will be criminally prosecuted in first instance by the Fourth Collegiate Court of the National District presided by …

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Three close friends went for a family outing in Salinas on Sunday, 26 March 2023. They decided to do the crossing to Las Calderas Bay. They had masks, snorkels and a buoy. After 45 minutes at sea they realized they were lost. Being the better swimmer of the three, Natanael Jesús Gómez decided to turn …

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Communications spokesman of the Presidency, Homero Figueroa called the present drought the worse to affect the country since 1997. At present, Greater Santo Domingo dwellers are feeling the drought and many condominiums have had to resort to purchasing water from tank delivery trucks. The situation also affects the rest of the country. The Presidency reports …

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