The imminent passage of Tropical Storm Bertha forced by Dominican Republic this Saturday, August 2, to the cancellation of several flights to different parts of the Caribbean and South America, sources in the area. The canceled flights are the 500 and 501 of the LIAT airline to and from the island of Antigua; 302 and 317 of the Air Antilles Express from Pointe-a-Pitre (Guadeloupe) bound for Fort-de-France (Martinique) and the Gol airline bound for the Brazilian cities of Sao Paulo, 7725, and Campinas, the 7713, detailed the sources. Cancellations of these departures occurred from José Francisco Peña Gómez International Airport Las Americas, according to a statement released by the company that operates the terminal, which serves Santo Domingo.
Bertha, the second tropical storm of the hurricane season in the Atlantic, held on Saturday and his career was over eastern Dominican Republic, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) USA The CNH detailed in its bulletin at 21.00 GMT (16:00 Ecuador time) on Saturday that Bertha is located about 150 kilometers east of Santo Domingo and 440 kilometers southeast of Grand Turk Island. The tropical storm has maximum sustained winds decreased to 75 mph and was moving west-northwest with a speed of 35 kilometers per hour. It is expected that on the night of Saturday, August 2, take a gradual turn toward the northwest and keep this movement until Sunday night.
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