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Vacation spots closed for Easter week

The Civil Defense Agency has announced the closing of 71 beaches and vacation sites nationwide for safety reasons. These vacation sites or beaches are declared off limits because the authorities feel they cannot handle large numbers of visitors. In alphabetic order by provinces, the off-limits spots are: Azua: El Caney Barahona: Los Patos Elías Piña: …
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Colonial city lighting project stalled

The "second stage" of a project to provide illumination to SD’s colonial sector has bogged down amidst bureaucratic finger-pointing as well as allegations of technical ineptitude and embezzlement of funds. El Siglo quotes the representative of the Spanish Agency for International Cooperation (ACE), Saturnino Cisneros, saying that the task of installing colonial-style electrified lanterns through …