{"id":131495,"date":"2019-09-30T14:57:27","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T14:57:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ny1.dr1.com.do\/wordpress\/?p=131495"},"modified":"2019-09-30T16:30:05","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T16:30:05","slug":"us-ambassador-bernstein-talks-of-achievements-in-first-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2019\/09\/30\/us-ambassador-bernstein-talks-of-achievements-in-first-year\/","title":{"rendered":"US Ambassador Bernstein talks of achievements in first year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Robin-Bernstein-Al-Momento.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-124005\" width=\"300\" height=\"227\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Robin-Bernstein-Al-Momento.jpg 530w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Robin-Bernstein-Al-Momento-300x226.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Safety and security, investment and trade, disaster preparedness and education \u2013 &#8220;SIDE&#8221; \u2013 are my main priorities,&#8221; says US Ambassador Bernstein as she sums up her first year in the country. &#8220;As I travel the country, from Dajab\u00f3n to Punta Cana, Las Terrenas to Boca Chica \u2013 I continue to find opportunities for the United States and the Dominican Republic to partner on our mutual interests and tackle our mutual challenges together,&#8221; she says in her official statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking to the media on the occasion, Ambassador Bernstein spoke of her satisfaction with the integration of the Egmont Group into the country as a way of controlling money laundering and drug trafficking. She is pleased that cocaine seizures in the Dominican Republic have doubled in 2019 compared to the previous year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She also mentioned projects of Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) with a value of US$20 million that has been approved. She said the focus is on infrastructure projects, projects that are women-run or principally benefit women or projects in collaboration with a variety of US businesses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She spoke of the efforts to make government contracts and tenders more transparent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bernstein presented Shane Myers as the new charge d&#8217;affaires at the US Embassy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>United States Ambassador Robin Bernstein said in an official statement: &#8220;I can I truly say I feel like I belong here.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/do.usembassy.gov\/ambassador-bernstein-celebrates-first-anniversary-in-the-dominican-republic\/\">US Embassy<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/listindiario.com\/la-republica\/2019\/09\/27\/584392\/bernstein-destaca-los-logros-de-su-primer-ano-como-embajadora\">Listin Diario<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>30 September 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Safety and security, investment and trade, disaster preparedness and education \u2013 &#8220;SIDE&#8221; \u2013 are my main priorities,&#8221; says US Ambassador Bernstein as she sums up her first year in the country. &#8220;As I travel the country, from Dajab\u00f3n to Punta Cana, Las Terrenas to Boca Chica \u2013 I continue to find opportunities for the United &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2019\/09\/30\/us-ambassador-bernstein-talks-of-achievements-in-first-year\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[154,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131495"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131495"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131537,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131495\/revisions\/131537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}