Emisión Vespertina de Telenoticias con Azize Mergen 21/03/2025
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00:00Hello, how are you? Good afternoon. I greet you all and welcome you to the newscast of Vespertina.
00:05Today is Friday, March 21, 2025. As always, I bring you the latest news.
00:10To all who follow us here in the Dominican Republic, in New York, New Jersey, with Eric through the networks,
00:15thank you all for joining us and for your loyalty.
00:18We immediately start the content of today.
00:20This Friday, the Director General of Cattle, Abel Madera,
00:24stated that the cases of African pig fever detected in El Pino de Dajabón are being controlled,
00:32as well as other small cases that have also been identified in other regions of the country.
00:38The journalist Ana Mañón talked to the official and explained to us.
00:43After the outbreak of African pig fever, a viral disease that causes the death of pigs in farms
00:49and that has caused concern among producers in the municipality of El Pino de Dajabón,
00:54the head of the Director General of Cattle, Carlos Madera, calls not to be alarmed
01:00and indicates that measures are being taken.
01:03Where it is peaking right now, in the last few weeks, the incidence has increased.
01:10Thank God, we have only had one medium-sized farm.
01:15The others are small producers of less than 50 pigs.
01:21Madera also stated that in other provinces of the country,
01:24small cases of African pig fever have been identified.
01:29For example, yesterday there was a small case in La Vega,
01:34in María Trinidad Sánchez,
01:39there is also a small case in San Juan,
01:44but all those focuses that you mentioned are under control.
01:48The viral disease has been present in Rd since 2021.
01:53According to the official, it is activated at certain times of the year
01:57and as of 2025, about 34 cases have been detected.
02:01For this reason, the Director General of Cattle has a program
02:05to support farms with biosecurity.
02:08Biosecurity in this disease is very important
02:11because even if it is present in the Dominican Republic,
02:14it will not necessarily enter the farms if they are protected.
02:18The head of the official entity also assured that the small cattle farmers affected
02:23will be compensated by the government, but they must report it appropriately.
02:29Everything is under control.
02:32We are doing what we have to do from here, from the Director General of Cattle.
02:38And at a certain time, the Presidency is supporting a project
02:44of compensation, of compensation of those small producers
02:49who have that difficulty to prevent them from running out of resources.
02:57According to the World Organization for Animal Health,
03:00African swine fever or PPA is a highly contagious viral disease
03:05that affects domestic and wild pigs with a mortality rate that can reach 100%.
03:11Although this disease does not pose any danger to human health,
03:16it has devastating effects on pig populations
03:19and on the economy of production systems.
03:23For Telenoticias, Ana Mañón.
03:26An energy cut scheduled for this Friday morning
03:31at the International Airport of the Americas
03:34will disable the operations of that terminal for four hours.
03:38And like the 40 Reina Ramirez,
03:40this is done with the aim of maintaining an electric station.
03:47According to the information provided to this media,
03:50the scheduled shutdown will disable operations at the airport for four hours,
03:55from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. on this Friday, March 21,
04:00without affecting its operation.
04:02This is what the person in charge of public relations and communications of Aerodón,
04:07Luis José López, said.
04:09And if they come to the airport at night and perceive that there are dark areas,
04:14it is in relation to those jobs, but nothing extraordinary is happening.
04:18All operations and all scheduled flights will continue with total normality.
04:25López argued that this time the information was placed in advance
04:30on the screens of the terminals in English and Spanish
04:33to avoid concern of passengers.
04:36So that all those who are going to travel at dawn today
04:39know that these jobs will be done.
04:41And we have also taken the forecast to connect to an alternate system of protection,
04:47all servers, data centers, so that this daily operation is not affected.
04:52It is remembered that on February 7,
04:55a scheduled shutdown was also carried out from 11 p.m. to 3 a.m.,
05:00causing chaos and great annoyance among hundreds of passengers,
05:04causing long queues due to the failures presented by computerized systems,
05:08causing manual checks of passports,
05:11which caused a delay in the flights of people heading to their destinations.
05:16For Telenoticias, Reina Ramírez.
05:19Well and completely deteriorated are the streets of Hato Nuevo in Santo Domingo Oeste,
05:25where its residents say they feel forced and abandoned
05:30by the problems they are facing and the difficulties they live with every day.
05:37Paola Baez expands on this report.
05:41As orphans, so are the communities of Hato Nuevo de Mano Guayabo,
05:45where the streets are impassable.
05:47In addition to the bad conditions,
05:49they assure that due to the lack of sidewalks,
05:51even children are forced to risk their lives walking through the vehicle area.
05:56We, the elderly, cross the street with all the sidewalks broken.
06:01It is dangerous, we stumble, these gentlemen, and so on.
06:04We have serious problems with the street.
06:06Yes, there have been several accidents, even.
06:09The children have to cross the street because the sidewalks were supposedly broken by him
06:13about two years ago, but they have left it as it is.
06:17Abandoned, we are orphans of the government, of everyone.
06:21What is spoken is a lie.
06:23Look, it's all on the screen.
06:25It's all on the screen.
06:27The more range they have, the less they are doing.
06:30It doesn't seem that we have leaders from here, from the area.
06:34The deterioration of their main roads also generates economic losses
06:38since they constantly have to repair the vehicles whose parts are frequently damaged,
06:43as well as delays to reach their destinations,
06:46since they have to cross the streets quite slowly.
06:49Indisputably, the street around here is devastated.
06:53There is no sidewalk, there is no container.
06:55When it rains, people have to walk down the street,
06:59risking being hit because the sidewalk is devastated.
07:03It's been like four years since they broke it, and what to fix it?
07:07And nothing, nothing.
07:08The vehicles are becoming nothing.
07:11Do you understand?
07:12And it's chaotic here.
07:14When it rains, no one can pass here, no one.
07:17It is incommunicable.
07:18Do you understand?
07:19Look, there, mainly, in that hole over there, we have a broken pipe.
07:23That belongs to the house.
07:25We reported that to the city council, and no one has done anything.
07:30The street is absolutely destroyed.
07:33The vehicles are destroyed quickly.
07:37You can't at least walk quickly because of the situation on the street.
07:42The situation also affects the hundreds of families who have decided to move to the community
07:47after acquiring apartments from government programs,
07:50looking for better living conditions.
07:53For Telenoticias, Paola Baez.
07:56We continue with more information here on Telenoticias.
07:59And the president of the Chamber of Accounts, Anel Jaramirez,
08:02has made controversial decisions to promote and fire the institution
08:08just before its possible departure.
08:11According to a source of full credit,
08:15he confirmed to this media that despite his absence
08:18and that the vice president is in office,
08:21Ramirez has carried out indiscriminate promotions to individuals close to his management.
08:27The internal environment has been described by the source as decreasing uncertainty and tensions,
08:34and in turn, he explained that in January and March 2 of this year,
08:41key positions were promoted by Ramirez,
08:45despite the fact that many of the favorites had not completed the probationary period of one year,
08:51a rule that, according to internal complaints, has been blatantly ignored.
08:57In addition, Ramirez has supposedly implemented an internal prosecution campaign,
09:02firing technicians who have refused to submit to what some consider whims and arbitrary decisions.
09:11The permanent attention judge of the Liza Veras National District
09:16imposed an economic guarantee of 100,000 pesos and a periodic presentation
09:21as a coercion measure against the exponent of urban music,
09:24Joan Manuel Nova, known artistically as the subject,
09:28after the complaint filed by Nayeli Nicole Sanchez Batista on February 15.
09:35I believe that in the end, in this process, as should prevail in all processes,
09:42justice prevails.
09:46According to the request for coercion document in which the Public Prosecutor's Office
09:51requested the imposition of preventive prison,
09:53one of the events that occurred on February 14, 2025, around 9 p.m.,
09:58in Sanchez Quisqueya, when the defendant presented himself at the house of the virtual
10:02to physically and verbally attack her and threaten her to death.
10:05While on March 8, the subject again exercised violence against the victim,
10:10locking her in a bathroom, after a discussion in the Cancino sector in Santo Domingo Este.
10:18And an individual who is supposedly sought by the authorities for a supposed sexual violation
10:23against a woman in the Yamasa community, Monteplata Province,
10:28went to this Friday to the facilities of this channel to turn himself in after five years of living.
10:34I am going to turn myself in to the authorities because in 2020 they accuse me of a violation,
10:40so I want to clarify the thing because I do not want to be running like this.
10:44No, we were drinking, so she wanted me to buy her a fridge,
10:48and I told her no, I did not have to buy her the fridge,
10:51and she told me, okay, no problem, when you get it.
10:54So after that, the next day, they were looking for me.
10:57And he says he did not commit the facts,
11:00so we, as lawyers, are turning the citizen to the authorities
11:07so that he is processed and investigated,
11:10and that there is no condition that the truth is not clarified.
11:16Martínez de León was turned in by his lawyer so that his rights are preserved.
11:22to a unit of the national police that was presented to this television station
11:26and immediately transferred him to the headquarters of the institution of the order for his depuration.
11:33Let's change the subject and talk about water.
11:35In an act led by President Luis Abinader,
11:38the director of INAPA, Wellington Arnault,
11:41announced the most important universal sanitation program of tourist and coastal cities
11:46in terms of sanitation in the history of the Dominican Republic.
11:49Guillermo García explains.
11:51It includes the intervention of Boca Chica, San Pedro de Macorís, La Romana and Bávaro Punta Cana,
11:57being the most ambitious program of this kind in the history of the country.
12:02And today we give the flag because in the next few days we will be signing the contracts
12:08for the start of this great program in the municipality of Boca Chica.
12:12Boca Chica, Andrés La Caleta, will be where this ambitious program will begin.
12:18During the announcement, President Abinader was awarded recognition
12:22for being the leader who has invested the most money in the water sector in just four years
12:27and who took advantage of the moment to highlight the weekly meetings
12:31where significant progress has been made.
12:34We had to unify after a while, self-construction,
12:38what happens is that we also have to coordinate,
12:41we were missing a lot because a village was missing and INAPA was coming to apply.
12:46So we have avoided that at least, basically.
12:52Earlier, the president led the graduation of 160 migratory agents
12:58in an event held at the Ministry of Defense,
13:01where a fleet of vehicles was also delivered
13:04to strengthen the control of irregular migration in the country.
13:09For Telenoticias, Guillermo García.
13:13At dawn this Friday, the Dominican Army patrol
13:18intercepted two jeeps on the San Juan-Azua highway,
13:23in which 31 Haitians were transported in irregular migratory condition.
13:28In the first vehicle, driven by Juan Esteban Núñez,
13:3122 undocumented people were traveling, trying to evade the military checkpoint Guanito.
13:38In the other vehicle, the driver was seen fleeing
13:42and 9 Haitians were left near the community of Guanito.
13:48The Haitians will be handed over to the Immigration Department
13:51for the repatriation process.
13:54We continue with more information here on Telenoticias.
13:58Dominican authorities continue the investigation
14:01about the disappearance of Sudishka Koneanki,
14:04a young tourist of Indian origin,
14:06who was last seen on March 6 on a beach in Punta Cana.
14:11Fabiola Núñez presents us with an extended summary of everything that happened in this case,
14:16which aroused international attention,
14:18even provoked the intervention of the FBI and the Interpol in the search.
14:24Sudishka Koneanki, 20 years old, was a medical student in the United States
14:29and had arrived in the Dominican Republic on March 3
14:32with a group of friends to enjoy the spring holidays.
14:36The night of his disappearance was on the beach of the Hotel Rio Republic
14:40in the company of Joshua Stephen Reeve, a 22-year-old American student.
14:45According to his version, they were both at sea
14:48when a strong current dragged them into the sea.
14:52While he managed to get out of the water,
14:54he assured that he lost sight of Koneanki after she walked to the shore.
14:59However, since that moment no trace of the young woman has been found.
15:04The authorities deployed a large search operation by air, sea and land,
15:09using drones, helicopters and specialized divers.
15:13Despite these efforts, no conclusive clue was found about his whereabouts.
15:18Reeve was considered a person of interest in the investigation
15:22and was under surveillance for more than 10 days.
15:25He retained his cell phone and passport, although no charges were presented against him.
15:30Finally, on March 19, after Judge Edwis Rijo received a resource from Avias Corpus
15:35that gave him the opportunity to travel freely,
15:38he left the country after obtaining a new passport at the U.S. Embassy.
15:44Koneanki's family, after days of uncertainty,
15:47requested that his daughter be declared dead,
15:50accepting the possibility that she had drowned.
15:56However, the case is still open
15:58and the authorities have not issued an official report on what happened.
16:02The disappearance of his daughter Koneanki
16:04generated a wave of concern in the tourism sector
16:07and has put to the test the capacity of the authorities to respond
16:11to high-profile cases involving foreign visitors.
16:15For Telenoticias, Fabiola Núñez.
16:20The Administrator of Popular Pension Funds
16:23reached 376,685 million pesos,
16:28consolidating a market share of 33.48%.
16:33This was highlighted by Eduardo Grullón, President of AFP Popular.
16:37Grullón highlighted that this allows an annual profitability of 9.92%
16:42in favor of its affiliates.
16:44This data emerged during the Annual Extraordinary Assembly of Actionists 2025,
16:50in which satisfactory results were presented in the fiscal exercise of 2024.
16:58The AHAINA Industrial Association presented its new emergency plan projects
17:03and technical and professional training
17:06that seek to improve industrial security
17:08and strengthen the technical competencies of the collaborators
17:11of the AHAINA-Nigua industrial district,
17:14contributing to the growth and sustainable development of the region.
17:18The event was attended by Napoleon Rodríguez,
17:22President of AHAINA,
17:25representatives of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce and other personalities.
17:30At Telenoticias, we have that the heads of the Ministry of Labor
17:33and the SuperAde Program signed a collaboration agreement this Friday
17:37in which joint actions will be carried out
17:40that will benefit 35,000 young people between the ages of 18 and 35
17:44with benefits and job insertion.
17:49The doors to youth to enter the labor market
17:54in decent jobs.
17:58The word is that, decent jobs.
18:02Our youth have to work in a decent way.
18:08The World Bank is serving as an articulating umbrella for this agreement.
18:14With its technical and economic contribution,
18:17it will be promoting the exploitation of the skills of our technical teams
18:22and also adding the experience and knowledge of other countries and other regions.
18:30This initiative aims to strengthen social protection services
18:35and promote economic inclusion.