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Four vacation homes in the exclusive Casa de Campo complex near La Romana have been impounded by the authorities. The houses, valued at a total of US$18 million, are the properties of disgraced Baninter executives Marco B?ez Cocco, Vivian Lubrano de Castillo and bank president Ram?n B?ez Figueroa. The properties are the latest assets belonging …

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Mario Vasquez Ra?a, president of the Pan American Sports Organization, has said that he is ?satisfied? with the progress of preparations for the Pan American Games in Santo Domingo this August. The Mexican official has recently been critical of the delays in construction and refurbishments of the installations. After arriving in Santo Domingo and surveying …

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Toronto?s Globe & Mail published today a Pan Am Games update by William Houston, which indicates that financial problems have forced the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) to cut back on its coverage of the Games. CBC has the rights to the footage of the Games and will distribute it to other media around the world. …

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The Pan Am Games Organizing Committee has chosen chef Rudi Sodamin to be responsible for preparing 372,000 meals for the more than 7,000 visiting athletes and delegates. Sodamin told The Miami Herald that he will be serving ?gold medal food to gold medal athletes?. Sodamin is the consulting master chef for Royal Caribbean International, the …

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Trade union leaders visited President Hip?lito Mej?a at the National Palace yesterday. They left the meeting with a promise from the President to study the possibility of raising public employees? salaries as of October this year. The President will also consider a proposal to remove income tax on monthly salaries of less than RD$15,000. Labor …

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Virgilio Ortega Nadal, president of the private-sector body called the Confederaci?n Patronal or COPARDOM, told El Caribe that the unions? demand for a 50% rise in the minimum wage could not be shouldered by the private sector under current circumstances. Any increase in salaries would only result in more staff dismissals or business closures, said …

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Hoy newspaper leads with the report that some poultry farmers are reducing production due to the rising cost of electricity, and are no longer able to secure bank loans. This claim comes from the northern region?s chicken farmers association, ASOPOLLON. By their calculation, the total losses of their members in June alone stand at RD$112 …

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First Lady Rosa G?mez de Mej?a announced that the first ladies of Latin America, the Caribbean, the United States and Canada will meet in Santo Domingo on 15-17 October. The meeting is to launch a hemispheric strategy for youth and the struggle against poverty. In a press conference at the National Palace, G?mez de Mej?a …

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PRD presidential pre-candidates Hatuey Decamps, Rafael Suberv? Bonilla, Milagros Ort?z Bosch, Ram?n Alburquerque, Enmanuel Esquea Guerrero, Jos? Rafael Abinader and Rafael Flores Estrella are suggesting either a plebiscite or an independent survey of party members to determine whether the current President, Hip?lito Mej?a, should step forward as a candidate for the 2004 elections. A final …

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Leading business sector representatives Lisandro Macarulla, Marisol Vicens and Iv?n Garc?a have called on the monetary authorities to reverse a measure announced by the Central Bank earlier this week to issue RD$10 billion worth of savings certificates. They believe the issuance will ?cool down? the economy because it will result in a rise in interest …

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