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Leonel Fernández: “People are going hungry”

The former president of the Republic, Leonel Fernández, said today that Dominicans are currently starving. “The Government has made the word crisis disappear from the political lexicon, the Government never refers to

March 1, 2022

Dominican Republic

Sanctions against Russia and the Kremlin’s response

The United States ordered yesterday to freeze all dollar assets of the Russian Central Bank, in addition to the sanction that weighs on two state banks, Belinvestbank and Bank Dabrabyt, prohibiting their

March 1, 2022

Dominican Republic

Huchi Lora retires from directing the program El Día

The journalist Huchi Lora announced on Tuesday his retirement from directing the program El Día, which is broadcast from Monday to Friday on Telesistema channel 11. The information was released by Edith

March 1, 2022

Dominican Republic

In terms of GDP, the DR’s debt stood at 66.7% at the end of 2021

The CREES data are in turn based on statistics from the BCRD and Public Credit. The debt of the non-financial public sector (NFPS) of the Dominican Republic reached US$47,674.1 million as of

March 1, 2022

Dominican Republic

Little progress in meeting on foreign policy and migration

The dialogue table for the reform of the foreign policy and migration in the Dominican Republic it had its second meeting yesterday and still did not have a defined agenda on what

March 1, 2022

Dominican Republic

Uncertainty affects tourism due to war in Ukraine

While some 3,000 are reported ukrainian tourists stranded in the Dominican Republic, the Russian airline Aeroflot announced yesterday that, due to the closure of Russia’s airspace with some countries in Europe and

March 1, 2022

Dominican Republic

Confirm preventive detention for those involved in Coral 5G

Those involved in the Coral 5G case, the former director of the Specialized Body for Tourist Security (CESTUR), General Juan Carlos Torres Robiou, Colonel Yehudy Blandesmil Guzmán Alcántara and José Manuel Rosario

March 1, 2022

Dominican Republic

Subsidy announced by the President will be for grain imports

The subsidy announced by the President will be for grain imports. The Minister of Industry, Commerce and MSMEs, Víctor (Ito) Bisonó, clarified this Monday that the subsidy announced by the president, Luis

March 1, 2022

Dominican Republic

With two years of covid, the virus is still latent, but in less intensity

The coronavirus area of the Moscoso Puello hospital that used to have patients outside the unit is now empty. The pandemic implemented a new educational model. CMD says the disease is not

March 1, 2022

Dominican Republic

Three thousand Ukrainian tourists are stranded in the DR

Two-thirds of the Ukrainians arrived with packages from the Russian tour operator Anex. Some 3,000 Ukrainian tourists are stranded in the Dominican Republic without the possibility of returning to their country as

March 1, 2022

Dominican Republic

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