2008 – Page 336

The European Union, under the newly signed Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) will guarantee preferential treatment for the DR for 30,000 metric tons of its sugar. EU country spokesman Jonathan Pitts said that the DR has become extremely competitive in the area of sugar. The CARICOM block, as part of the agreement, will have preferential treatment …

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The president of the Dominican Medical Association says that physicians working at the country’s public hospitals plan to campaign for the authorities to increase their wages to RD$58,400, up from the maximum RD$24,000 that a specialist currently earns. The campaign comes on the tails of complaints of high wages for legislative, municipal and central government …

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In true political fashion PLD officials answered a question with a question. At a press conference yesterday leading party members, including Senate president Reinado Pared Perez and Fernandez campaign manager Francisco Javier Garcia asked the PRD presidential candidate Miguel Vargas Maldonado to explain his connection with a money laundering and drug trafficking case currently being …

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Eight of the police officers who were injured earlier this week when an elevator at the Malecon Center dropped seven floors have been sent home from the hospital. El Caribe reports that the officers with the more serious injuries were two officers who are being treated for fractures in their legs. Malecon Center administrator Porfirio …

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Business owners are defending the use of signs that absolve establishments from liability in case of damage or theft of a vehicle, on the grounds that there would be an increase in car theft without them. Malecon Center administrator Porfirio Rodriguez, quoted in Listin Diario, said that if businesses didn’t put up these signs people …

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Super Pola is advertising sales in its fish and seafood department and super-sales in its poultry products, with a pound of frozen chicken reduced to RD$16.95, and chicken breasts down to RD$39.95lb. La Isla is advertising 35% off towels, sheets, lamps and accessories and 50% off select textiles for upholstery on Friday 1, Saturday 2 …

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The Latin American Table Tennis Championships will take place in Santo Domingo from 30 March to 6 April. A total of 14 spots need to be filled for the Beijing Olympic Summer Games. Two competitors from the Dominican Republic, Lin Ju and Wu Xu, qualified in the Pan American Games held in Rio de Janeiro …

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The International Monetary Fund has finished its eighth and final review of the Stand-by arrangement with the DR. As a result, the IMF has approved the disbursal of US$122.3 million, of which $77.05 million are in Special Drawing Rights. The review of the letter of intent was on the agenda after being delayed for “unintentional …

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Farmers taking part in the bi-national market between Haiti and the DR have decided to boycott this coming Monday’s market in response to the Haitian authorities’ reluctance to lift their ban on Dominican chicken and egg imports. The ban has been in place for two weeks, following an Avian flu scare in the DR, but …

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The PRD is asking President Leonel Fernandez to explain his relationship with Nelson Solano Guzman. A Supreme Court document indicates that Solano had ties to numerous mega-projects in the DR at the time of his extradition to the US on heroin trafficking charges. During a press conference held at the PRD headquarters, party general secretary …

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