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Four people were killed in a crash between two motorcycles and a car early Sunday morning, 16 November 2014 at Km 28 of the Las Americas Highway east of Santo Domingo. The injured were taken to the Ney Arias Lora Trauma Hospital. As reported, the victims were headed to Boca Chica from La Caleta when …

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British warship HMS Argyll, on a six-month deployment in the Caribbean, seized 850 packages of cocaine in Dominican territorial waters on Saturday, 15 November 2014. The four occupants of the speedboat carrying the drugs were delivered to a US Coast Guard vessel that was also taking part in the anti-drop operation. The National Drug Control …

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Luis Pie in taekwondo and the Dominican skeet team were the first to win gold medals for the Dominican Republic in the Central American and Caribbean Games that are taking place in Veracuz, Mexico. The DR with Gabriel Mercedes had won gold in the previous games in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico in 2010. The winners in …

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The San Juan Shopping Mall parking lot will be the setting for the Festival del Merengue & Ritmos Caribenos on Saturday, 22 November 2014 as of 7:40pm with performances by El poeta callejero, Chiquito Team Band, the Coco Band, Diomedes and Grupo Mio, and the Ministry of Tourism folkloric dance group.

A mission from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) headed by Przemek Gajdeczka, which visited Santo Domingo from 3n12 November 2014, has concluded that the outlook for the end of the year is more favorable than expected. But the mission observes the fiscal deficit by year’s end will be at 50% of GDP and recommends more …

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Environment Ministers from Cuba, Haiti and the Dominican Republic meeting in Santo Domingo yesterday, Thursday 13 November 2014, signed a three-year inter-ministerial agreement to promote sustainable environmental development in each country. The agreement strengthens existing cooperation in the framework of the Caribbean Biological Corridor to preserve biodiversity and integrate communities into harmonious development with nature. …

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The Ministry of Public Works military-police commission for road safety, in coordination with the Ministry of Tourism, has announced the introduction of new patrols along Puerto Plata’s Gregorio Luperon Avenue, better known as the Malecon that is around 5 km long. Three vehicles have been added to the patrol since yesterday, Thursday, 13 November 2014. …

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The Dominican Republic has applauded the recent preliminary ruling (WT/DS441/19) by a World Trade Organization (WTO) Panel that rejected all of Australia’s procedural objections to the Dominican Republic’s claims against that country’s plain packaging law for tobacco products. The dispute is being coordinated by Katrina Naut, the Dominican Republic’s director general of Foreign Trade in …

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Santo Domingo East mayor and Municipal Federation president Juan de los Santos is calling for the Supreme Court of Justice to find another location for the new court to be built for the municipality. De los Santos says that using the former site of the Textil de Los Minas factory will cause traffic jams and …

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