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Mary A. Butler: Sistemas de salud de RD tiene grandes brechas

Mary A. Butler: Dominican Republic health systems have major gaps

Health spending in Dominican Republic is low compared to other countries in the region. This limits the system’s capacity to offer quality services and access the necessary resources. There is also inequality

July 26, 2024

Dominican Republic

jenny pantoja, trabajo, Cuba, presos políticos, seguridad del estado

Jenny Pantoja, a professor, is fired from her job

HAVANA, Cuba.- Officials of the Miguel Enríquez Faculty, part of the University of Medical Sciences of Havana, said goodbye on Tuesday to the Cuban anthropologist and historian Jenny Pantoja Torresas the academic

July 26, 2024

Cuba

Congreso aprueba de forma definitiva ley de Responsabilidad Fiscal

Congress definitively approves Fiscal Responsibility Law

The law aims to bring the general government debt ratio to 40% of GDP by 2035 and limits the growth of primary spending. Congress definitively approved the Fiscal Responsibility Law proposed by

July 26, 2024

Dominican Republic

First celebration of July 26: showing the world popular support for the regime

HAVANA, Cuba.- The two emblematic dates of the Cuban Revolution Fidel Castro They are January 1, to commemorate their triumph in 1959, and July 26, which commemorates the failed assault on the

July 26, 2024

Cuba

Common places

Although they have geographical names, they do not exist on maps, because they do not occupy a space but are worn-out, overused expressions used to exhaustion in colloquial language and, when they

July 26, 2024

Dominican Republic

Anticiclón y polvo del Sahara limitarán lluvia viernes y sábado

Anticyclone and Saharan dust will limit rain on Friday and Saturday

Santo Domingo.- The arrival of dust in the Sahara zone, plus the presence of a high pressure system (anticyclone), will reduce the possibility of rain starting this Friday, reported the Dominican Institute

July 26, 2024

Dominican Republic

Silvio Rodríguez retracts his statement: “They say I am changing, as if it were possible to repent”

SAN LUIS POTOSÍ, Mexico.- The Cuban singer-songwriter Silvio Rodriguezafter having criticized the recent economic measures announced by the island’s regime, clarified this Wednesday, July 24, that he is not changing his “principles”

July 26, 2024

Cuba

88-year-old woman graduates from nursing

By: Misael Leger @noticiasmisaelleger San Pedro de Macoris.- An 88-year-old woman graduated from Nursing this Thursday. She is from Villa Herminia Ramírez. Ramírez is from the Mexico neighborhood of San Pedro de

July 26, 2024

Dominican Republic

Un teléfono sin servicio de internet en Cuba

‘CubaNet’ journalists besieged, without internet service, one day before July 26

MIAMI, United States. – At least five journalists from CubaNet Residents on the island informed this newsroom that they have been without internet service since Wednesday. The Cuban regime usually limits or

July 26, 2024

Cuba

Court approves agreement between the Public Prosecutor’s Office and former technical director of OISOE

Santo Domingo, DR.- The Fourth Court of Instruction of the National District approved this Thursday the criterion of opportunity requested by the Public Ministry in favor of Victor Matias Encarnacion Montero, former

July 26, 2024

Dominican Republic

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