2024 – Page 5

Two people died in Bayara, the first municipal section of Petit-Goâve, in Haiti after consuming beef contaminated with anthrax and ten other people were hospitalized, according to CASEC Wilnord Delicieux, Haiti Libre reported on 16 July 2024. In the Dominican Republic, defense and health authorities took new preventive measures to protect against a spill-off of …

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Statistics from the Customs Agency (DGA) reveal that exports to South America are growing steadily. One of the plusses making the difference is the large number of flights down South that have cargo space available. In the first five months of 2024, some US$48 million were exported to the South American countries. This is US$10 …

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RD Vial reported the resumption on Sunday, 21 July 2024 of the Fast Pass and cash payment services at all lanes of the Las Americas Expressway tolls plaza following a temporary disruption caused by a lightning strike early on Saturday, 20 July 2024 in the morning. Jean Luis Rodríguez, director of RD Vial, praised the …

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If you were not already aware, the water in five-gallon bottles stored in the sun can be toxic. A headline story in Listin Diario alerts Dominican consumers to the reality that the water stored outdoors for purchase could be contaminated. Originally, water companies bottled the water in glass, but the bottles would break and were …

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There have been nearly a thousand cases of dengue (“bonebreak”) fever so far this year, a reminder for people to keep to preventive measures. Dengue is only transmitted by one type of mosquito, the Aedes aegypti, and that mosquito breeds only in stagnant waters. The mosquito is fairly easy to kill. Simply remove any stagnant …

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Convicted congresswoman Rosa Amalia Pilarte López (PRM-La Vega) has submitted a petition to the full Supreme Court of Justice asking for a review of her appeal against ruling SCJ-SS-24-0592 issued by the Second Chamber of that high court on 28 May 2024. Her attorneys Eduardo Jorge Prats, Julio Cury, and Roberto Medina Reyes, presented a …

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Police Colonel Ysabelita de los Santos, the former head of El Coco dog track facility where seized vehicles were stored, was sentenced to six months of suspended prison, along with two other defendants, in the case involving her alleged abuse of power against the National Ombudsman and a team of El Caribe journalists. The ruling …

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Online 23-year old “influencer” Starlin Silvestre Corporán was remanded in custody for a month following a ruling by interim judge Kenty Marisela Nuesi de Trinidad of the Judicial Office for Permanent Service in San Cristobal. Silvestre Corporan had apologized and turned himself in to facilitate the investigation after his post with the threat went viral. …

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A Santiago court ordered two men accused of pimping and aggravated sexual exploitation of 45 foreign women to serve one year of pre-trial detention. Judge José Rafael D’Asís of the Santiago Permanent Services Attention Court ruled against defendants David (Junior) Matos Monegro and Estarly Almanzar Perez for their leading a criminal organization that recruited women, …

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Over 6,000 grams of presumed cocaine (06 packages) were seized by agents of the National Drug Control Agency (DNCD) and members of the Public Ministry during a joint surveillance and interdiction operation conducted in the municipality of Bayahibe, La Altagracia province on Sunday, 21 July 2024. Acting on intelligence reports, anti-narcotics agents launched an operation …

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