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Those who read List?n Diario?s online version early in the day received a rude awakening this morning. Instead of the sober layout usually found there, the website?s homepage had been taken over by a message that read: Hip?lito Mej?a, m——–, sal de este pa?s. The media publication, which is under governmental intervention as part of …

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The Dominican Liberation Party (PLD) will hold its primary this Sunday, 29 June. The two leading contenders are former President L?onel Fernandez Reyna and former Vice President Jaime David Fernandez Mirabal, both of whom held closing events for their campaign yesterday. Fern?ndez Mirabal, of the ?Somos M?s? faction of the party, spoke out against corruption …

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Bear and Stearns in its 20 June report titled ?Emerging Markets Sovereign Journal Weekly?, indicated that the Dominican Republic, which had been praised for the past year for its sustained economic growth, will emerge from the present economic and banking crises looking ?more like some of its regional neighbors (particularly in Central America), where both …

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Several world marine-life experts will be in Santo Domingo for a conference on dolphin wellbeing, including Dr. Toni Frohoff, a marine-mammal scientist; Dr. Naomi Rose of the Humane Society of the United States; Brigit Winning, director of the San Francisco-based Oceanic Society Expeditions; Carole Carlson of the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW); and Natalie …

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The government will be allotting two preferential lanes of the Las Americas highway for buses transporting athletes of the 14th Pan American Games, most of whom will be staying at the athletes village situated near the Las Americas International Airport.  The Pan American torch is scheduled to be lit today in Teotihuacan, Mexico, and is …

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The Organizing Committee for the Pan American Games must send 2,000 air tickets to judges, technicians, presidents of sports federations and special guests of the Panamerican Sports Organization (PASO). Given the devaluation of the Dominican peso, these airline tickets will now cost much more than originally budgeted.  In the 1998 agreement whereby the Dominican Republic …

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The DR1 Daily News will not be updated tomorrow, 19 June, in view of the legal holiday in the Dominican Republic to commemorate the Roman Catholic Corpus Christi Day. Because it is a religious holiday, it will not be shifted to Friday. For those who can take Friday off, however, it will become an extra-long …

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The List?n Diario reports that President Hip?lito Mej?a announced yesterday a twelve-year RD$57-billion program to fight poverty. National Planning Office director, Fernando Mangual said that the program is conditioned to the country maintaining a growth rate of 4.5%. Economists are forecasting this year the DR will grow 0.5%, at most.  The program to fight poverty …

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Enrique Iglesias, the head of the IADB and a frequent visitor to the Dominican Republic, told reporters yesterday that the cost of any reforms required by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) would be much less than the cost of the crisis now affecting the Dominican economy. El Caribe newspaper reports that ?Don Enrique? would not …

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Economist Pedro Silverio warned that, no matter what, there would be new taxes after the IMF accords were signed. Speaking to reporters from Hoy newspaper after presenting his evaluation of the current economic situation to the National Association of Young Business People (ANJE), Silverio said that either openly or under some sort of subterfuge, the …

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