Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Puerto Plata, officially known as San Felipe de Puerto Plata; ( French: Port-de-Plate) [ 4] is a major coastal city in the Dominican Republic, and capital of the province of Puerto Plata. [ 5] The city is a major trading port. Puerto Plata has resorts such as Playa Dorada and Costa Dorada, which are located east of the city proper.
2024 Dominican Republic general election 19 May 2024 Presidential election ← 2020 2028 → Turnout 54.37% (0.92 pp) Nominee Luis Abinader Leonel Fernández Abel Martínez [es] Party PRM FP PLD Alliance Dominican Republic Advances PRM PRSC DxC PHD PNVC APD PP Rescue Dominican Republic FP BIS PUN PQDC FNP National Progressive Bloc PLD PV UDC PRSD PCR PLR MODA Running mate Raquel Peña Ingrid ...
Members: Manuel Lamarche García, Emiliano Tejera, Andrés Julio Montolío, Francisco Leonte Vásquez Lajara, Carlos Ginebra, Eladio Victoria, Federico Velásquez y Hernández. Vice-president under Carlos Felipe Morales, assumed the presidency after his resignation. Assassinated at the start of the 1911–1912 Civil War .
The first president was Pedro Santana, who was invested on 14 November 1844 by decision of the Central Government Junta. The current president of the Dominican Republic is Luis Abinader of the Modern Revolutionary Party, who won the 2020 Dominican Republic general election and took office on 16 August 2020 from Danilo Medina.
President Joe Biden vigorously defended his fitness for office in a high-stakes press conference Thursday evening, fielding several questions about his age and calls for him to step aside.
For an alternate area figure of 48,730 km 2 (18,810 sq mi), calling code 809 and Internet TLD: [ 4] The Dominican Republic[ a] is a North American country on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean Sea, bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the north. It occupies the eastern five-eighths of the island, which it ...
Founded in 1883 as All America Cables & Radio Dominican Republic (an ITT subsidiary), the company was the country's first telecom to offer telegraph services to the Antilles . In January 2000, Centennial Communications purchased 70% of the company, forming Centennial Dominicana. [1] The company later launched a CDMA2000 network and provided ...
The Dominican Republic is a North American country on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean Sea, bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the north. It occupies the eastern five-eighths of the island, which it shares with Haiti, making Hispaniola one of only two Caribbean islands, along with Saint Martin, that ...