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The attempts by the Central Electoral Court (JCE) since 2016 to computerize and automate the different phases of the general election, will have cost the state by 2020 more than RD$2.8 billion. In 2016, the JCE spent around US$39.7 million using equipment bought from Indra Sistema, but an evaluation carried out by the JCE Information …

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Minister of Energy and Mines Antonio Isa Conde said that the low ranking of the Dominican Republic in the Fraser Institute 2018 annual survey of mining and exploration companies is due to the objectionable history of some mining companies that has led to a generalized rejection of mining operations in the country. The Dominican Republic …

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The Ministry of Public Works announced the expansion of the highway linking the northern provinces of Puerto Plata and María Trinidad Sánchez to the east. Vice Minister Ramón Pepín made the announcement as he broke ground for the start of the construction, together with the provincial governor, the Bishop of Puerto Plata, Iván Rivera and …

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24-year old Marielle Hazlo (Marielle Hazoury Lora) is performing this Saturday, 16 February at Hard Rock Café Punta Cana. Born in Miami, USA, Marielle is a singer and composer who got her start studying piano and guitar in Santo Domingo. At 16 years old, she was the Dominican opening in a concert with Colombian pop …

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Formerly president of the National Herrera Industries Association, Antonio Taveras Guzman launched his national campaign for a shot at a candidacy in the 2020 general election. He began symbolically, taking off in his campaign bus from the Puerta de la Misericordia, the historic gates to the Colonial City where the Dominican nationality was proclaimed on …

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The defense of former senator Andrés Bautista accused Attorney General Jean Alain Rodríguez of a media campaign to pressure Judge Francisco Ortega Polanco to send his defendant to trial based on a weak case so that he can “wash his hands like Pontius Pilate, saying he did his part.“ He said the prosecutor knows the …

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Foreign Minister Miguel Vargas announced that the government of Argentina is now allowing Dominicans that have received a United States B1/B2 or a European Union Schengen C visa to travel to Argentina without having to request a visa to do so. This applies only to those traveling for tourism to Argentina. The visa less travel …

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The Dominican Republic’s 2017/2018 sugar cane crush reached 5.8 mln tonnes, a significant increase over the 5.5 mln in 2016/17. Agra-Net reports the source of the numbers is the country’s National Sugar Institute (Inazucar). Agra-Net says this would be the country’s highest sugar harvest level since the mid 1990s. Of the total, 3.5 mln tonnes …

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The Small and Medium-Sized Bakers’ Union (UMPIH) and the Association of School Food Suppliers of the Dominican Republic (Supliderd) came together late last week to announce that government arrears in payments for school meals, to the tune of some RD$2 billion, would force them to radicalize their fight to be paid. The bakers had announced …

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The Santiago Water and Sewer Corporation (Coraasan) reports that it will continue rationing water throughout its system, as long as the drought continues in the region. Dario Fernandez, the water company spokesman, pointed out that waters levels at the Tavera Dam have continued dropping. The latest numbers showed that the level went from 317.45 to …

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