We bring you a summary of the main news that occurred during the week, starting on Monday, August 2, 2024 until yesterday, Saturday, August 7, 2024.
Monday, August 2, 2024
Minerd will deliver 100 school buildings before the end of 2024
He director The Secretary of School Maintenance and Infrastructure of the Ministry of Education of the Dominican Republic (Minerd), Fernando Taveras, reported that nearly one hundred school facilities will be handed over to the public education system in the remainder of this year 2024.
The official said, while participating in the radio program Z101, which was broadcast from the headquarters of the educational institution, that other school infrastructures are between 85 and 90 percent complete.
You can read it in full: Minerd will deliver 100 school buildings before the end of 2024
Tuesday, August 3, 2024
This is the health status of the injured in the Azua accident
The people who were injured in the accident in the community of Bastida, in Las Yayas, Azua, are still recovering.
Ernesto Escalante, one of those affected, said he was there just to please some friends.
You can read it in full: This is the health status of the injured in the Azua accident
Wednesday, August 4, 2024
Inabie found no evidence of students poisoned with milk at a school in Santiago
Santo Domingo. – The National Institute of Student Welfare (Inabie) reported that after an uprising carried out this Wednesday at the educational center Herminia Perezlocated in the Pekin sector of Santiago, the existence of students was not evident intoxicated product of milk consumption after an event that allegedly occurred at the aforementioned school.
None of the students required medical attention related to the reported event, as they were mild stomach symptoms, the origin of which is being investigated, at this center that has more than 1,300 schoolchildren.
You can read the full article: Inabie found no evidence of students poisoned with milk at a school in Santiago
Thursday, August 5, 2024
Fuerza del Pueblo calls traffic light failure a “technological terrorist attack”
The People’s Strength, Through its Secretary of Road Safety, Mario Holguín, it has requested that the Public Prosecutor’s Office immediately take action against the secrecy surrounding the National Institute of Transit and Land Transport (INTRANT).
During a press conference, Holguín, an expert on traffic and road safety, described the award of a contract to the company Transcore Latam, SRL, for RD$1,317,350,997.00 (one billion three hundred seventeen million, three hundred fifty thousand, nine hundred ninety-seven pesos), for the traffic light network that recently collapsed, as “one of the most worrying episodes in recent government management.”
You can read it in full: Fuerza del Pueblo calls traffic light failure a “technological terrorist attack”
Friday, August 6, 2024
One year later, MP files charges against those accused of explosion in San Cristóbal
He Public Prosecutor’s Office On Thursday, the court filed a formal accusation and requested the opening of a trial against those accused of the explosion at a plastic factory in San Cristóbal, which occurred on August 14, 2023, leaving some 38 fatalities and dozens injured, as well as nine buildings destroyed and several homes affected.
The accusation was filed in the Second Court of Instruction of the Judicial District of San Cristóbal against the owners of the plastic factory; Edward Armando Vidal Garrido, Maribel Sandoval Almánzar, Mercedes Altagracia Vidal and the company Vidal Plast SRL, where the strong explosion with shock waves that caused the accident originated.
You can read it in full: One year later, MP files charges against those accused of explosion in San Cristóbal
Saturday, August 7, 2024
Abinader responds to Diosdado Cabello’s threats
The President Luis Abinader responded to threats from the Minister of Internal Affairs, Justice and Peace of Venezuela, Diosdado Cabello and stressed that the Dominican Republic will continue to defend its democratic values, despite the challenges.
“We don’t have oil, but our economy is bigger than Venezuela’s. We will continue to defend democratic principles and be empathetic to the situation in Venezuela,” he said at the end of a meeting with the US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken.
