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Thursday, 31 January 2002
- Licey: Champion 2001-2002
- A case of mistaken identity
- Presidency office to manage bond money
- Dominicans can fly charter
- Guillo Perez and Candido Bido together with Pavarotti
- American Eagle’s Barahona connection
- Record highs for US dollar
- Fuel savings offset lull in tourism revenues
- Jorge Volpi coming for 2002 Book Fair
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Wednesday, 30 January 2002
- AMET at work
- Learning from the Argentine crisis
- Senate president warns against more loans
- Macroeconomic stability, regardless of who is in power
- Using bonds money for social programs?
- Government moves to detect fraud in fuel sales
- Extradition treaty to be approved
- US wants DR to hold tenders for major public works
- Resignation of Nicaraguan consul to be accepted
- Only 12% of Haitians living in DR have documentation
- The most exciting final baseball series
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Tuesday, 29 January 2002
- 2.5%-3% GDP growth in 2001
- AMET to remove street vendors
- School assistance program resumes today
- US$141 million loan for northwestern aqueduct
- Honorary consul may be fired
- Government not saving to pay off sovereign bonds
- Economist says government needs to restrain spending
- Visual pollution as politics takes hold of city
- Better days for sugar industry in DR
- Aguilas could become league champs today
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Monday, 28 January 2002
- Official rate to float
- Government is main obstacle to exports
- Foreign debt payments on schedule
- Four key farming projects on hold
- Didier Schuller is still here
- President Mejia optimistic on alliances
- Jaquez arrested, relatives say he is the wrong man
- Buy your hands-free mobile phone adaptor now
- Doctors don’t like controls
- 91-year-old writer receives Literature Award
- Social trip to Puerto Rico turns into scandal
- Honorary consul suspected of money laundering
- New Spanish ambassador
- Lots of talk, little action
- Airfare competition on Miami route
- PhDs to debate the issues on new TV Show
- The rising cost of VIP service
- Rod Stewart booked for Altos de Chavon
- Licey gives the Aguilas big battle
- Lots happening in the DR
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Friday, 25 January 2002
- Balaguer says no to alliance with PRD
- No report on use of sovereign bonds money yet
- Kmart investment in DR is still on
- Mayor short of money to pay garbage bills
- Carlos Alberto Montaner on Haiti
- Users complain of power bill increases despite long blackouts
- TV show to provide new insight into the issues
- Mondesi stars in opening of baseball finals
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Thursday, 24 January 2002
- Candelier gives in to influential unions?
- US$181 million to build new dam
- Contradictions over new highway deal
- San Pedro port gets a start
- Suspect in Senator's death could be in US
- French fugitive left DR for Bahamas
- Challenge to new police chief
- Big projects to bring progress to Santiago
- Tourism stats for Punta Cana
- Handicraft Center for Bayahibe-Dominicus
- Hertell advocates alternatives to all-inclusives
- Taiwan ambassador decorated
- Mexicana offers great fares to Miami
- Floor nearly sold out in Pavarotti concert
- Baseball finals calendar
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Wednesday, 23 January 2002
- President decorates five women who fought Trujillo
- AMET regulates use of overpasses
- Japanese to help Dominican fishing industry
- 2,008 government posts
- Russian-made helicopters for the Army?
- FBI investigates Senator’s death
- More details on use of sovereign bond money, please
- Kmart bankruptcy expected to affect DR investment
- All judges should retire at 75
- Didier Schuller is missing
- Mejia shrugs off financial burden of Pan Am Games
- The evolution of Haiti in art
- Biodiversity congress
- Japanese art at the Museum of Dominican Man
- Circus on the Malecon
- Taiwan business event
- Dominican rock show
- Rubby Perez at the National Theater
- Analyzing the future of the free zone industry
- Estrellas eliminated
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Tuesday, 22 January 2002
- Bishop says corruption is worst enemy
- President Mejia touchy about sovereign bonds
- Don’t read the newspapers every day
- President tells Leonel “Mind your own business.”
- President relaunches his social program
- From paquetazo to paquetico, says Leonel
- Leonel Fernandez: new PLD President
- Money in circulation up 35% in 2001
- Where did travel advertising funds go?
- Banana exports up
- French fugitive lived here
- Dr. Benoit passes away
- Placido Domingo booked for 16 April
- A hole-in-one prizewinner
- Vladimir Guerrero goes to bat for the Estrellas
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Friday, 18 January 2002
- New cars can wait to get inspection stickers
- OMSA buses get their lanes back
- Government takes another loan
- Contradictions regarding RD$300 welfare program
- Record decline in hotel occupancy
- DR still does better than rest of Caribbean
- Trade impasse with Costa Rica continues
- Controversial privatization of highway
- New York Times was wrong
- Trade corridor sought for Haiti
- It’s official, Codetel is Codetel
- Bank statements by mobile phone
- Martin Duran denies seeing skin color
- Richard Clayderman to perform in Santo Domingo
- The three tenors come to Santo Domingo?
- Licey leaps to second place
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Thursday, 17 January 2002
- President Aristide in the DR
- JCE offices in Miami and Spain
- DR to coordinate ACP trade negotiations
- Better system for vehicle inspections considered
- PRD primary set for Sundays in February
- Who did it? Osama bin Laden?
- Business advertising down, government advertising up
- Pavarotti at the National Theater
- DR1 relaunches its Calendar Page
- Aguilas maintain their lead
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Wednesday, 16 January 2002
- President of Haiti visits today
- RD$40 million in unfair billing
- Congressional agenda?
- Child labor poll grim
- Use of sovereign bonds money
- Freedom of speech case
- Leaving Haiti up to the DR
- Head of public medicine program seriously injured
- Government corruption?
- Scandal unfolds in Senator’s murder
- XVI Juan Marichal Golf Classic
- Estrellas tie with the Aguilas
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Tuesday, 15 January 2002
- Indotel releases new guidelines for claims
- Why mothers welfare program was suspended
- JCE judges disagree
- Contesting a JCE decision
- PLD warning: more new loans coming
- More on the murder of Senator Gomez
- Hubieres to mobilize “scrap iron” cars
- Kent and Belmont cigarettes launched here
- Clearance sales in Santo Domingo
- Merengue man arrested for wearing army uniform
- Whale-watching in Samana
- The 21 January long weekend
- Pan Am Games get new offices
- Licey hangs on in baseball
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Monday, 14 January 2002
- President Hipolito Mejia comments on judges
- What happened to the Paquetazo Social?
- School age illiteracy
- Cibao airport opening now set for March
- More Casandra Awards nominees
- Aguilas vs. Estrellas in the baseball finals?
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Friday, 11 January 2002
- Drastic reduction in dangerous boat trips
- Restructuring the Dominican police
- Private jail for traffic violators
- New senator for Santiago Rodriguez
- More loans passed by the Senate
- RD$5 billion borrowed from Dominican commercial banks
- Warning against increased spending and borrowing
- Haitian opposition protests Aristide’s visit
- Winning a case against the power distributor
- Casandra Awards nominations
- Estrellas: No one can stop us
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Thursday, 10 January 2002
- North satellite to be built at Las Americas Airport
- More aggressive role for Cedopex?
- 6% salary increase for government employees
- President Mejia visits Cuban ambassador
- Central Bank to intervene in exchange market
- Caucedo Port gets okay
- Police chief visits head of Supreme Court
- Twice as many employees fired in 2001
- Mejia to meet PRD president
- JCE revokes decision on minority parties
- Will Bush visit the DR in 2002?
- The Estrellas take off
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Wednesday, 9 January 2002
- New police chief
- Candelier returns to AMET
- New date for Aristide’s visit
- Work advancing on Santiago-Navarette
- Attorney General appoints commission
- Donate your organs
- Debating the urban renewal
- Clash within the PRD continues
- Placido Domingo & Dominican songs
- Rodeo in Punta Cana
- Aguilas lose their first game in six
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Tuesday, 8 January 2002
- Candelier transferred to AMET
- Senators retaliate?
- Constitutional reform is closed case for PRSC
- JCE announces RD$20 million advertising campaign
- Violating rules to issue pardons
- Join the US Army
- Semi-finals continue today
- Finally, you can get a dr1 link!
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Monday, 7 January 2002
- Life returning to normal after the holidays
- President Aristide arrives 14 January
- Year-end inflation: 4.38%
- One paycheck only for government employees
- Check your money
- Back problems or depression?
- Natural gas to fuel Los Minas plants
- Aguilas maintain their lead
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Friday, 4 January 2002
- Supreme Court annuls constitutional reform law
- Census now set for July
- New roads commission to prepare 10-year plan
- Looking for place to send Guy Philippe
- Minister of Tourism disputes lack of governmental support for Tourism
- CAB says it has not been partial to American Eagle
- More dollar transactions go to the free market
- Synchronizing the DR trade negotiating team
- More on the case of the pardoned drug dealer
- 2002 Central American and Caribbean Games events to be held here
- Licey and Aguilas continue to lead baseball semi-finals
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Thursday, 3 January 2002
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President disputes lack of government support to tourism
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AA must have good connections in DR
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AES says 2002 will be a good year for power sector
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Santo Domingo Stock Exchange in 2001
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The 2002 business challenge
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Unemployment up in 2001
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Significant reduction in death toll over the holidays
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Rethinking prison term pardons
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People like the new look of DR1
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Aguilas and Licey win their first games
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Wednesday, 2 January 2002
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