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The National Social Security Committee (CNSS) and insurers have not yet reached an agreement on the contentious points under discussion. The scheduled implementation date for the National Social Security System (Law 87-01) was postponed to allow these issues to be resolved. According to CNSS general manager Arismendy D?az Santana old-age and disability pensions would come …

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Hoy leads with the news that Central Bank governor Jos? Lois Malkum announced yesterday that he will do all that is necessary to control the soaring exchange rate. Yesterday the peso stood at a new record low, valued at RD$27.85 to the US dollar.  The recent measures aimed at curbing this that include removing RD$10 …

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The economic effects on the public are being felt more and more, local newspapers report today. As well as the sharp rise in bus fares, airline tickets have gone up by 22%, medicines by 30%, hardware store items are up another 15% and gasoline and domestic propane gas are also set to increase in price. …

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Former Dominican ambassador in Paris, businessman Luis Alvarez Renta who was removed from his diplomatic post by President Hip?lito Mej?a after being named in the Baninter case, flew into Santo Domingo?s Herrera airport on a private plane from Miami yesterday, and handed himself over to the authorities. He arrived at District Attorney Maximo Aristy Caraballo?s …

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Jorge Subero Isa, president of the Supreme Court, has called on the public to have faith in the independence of the legal system in the Baninter case. Supreme Court justices have been named as possible beneficiaries of Baninter?s “generosity.” Subero Isa denied the accusation and guaranteed that the Court would ensure that all parties involved …

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Banco Central Governor Jos? Lois Malkum has said that it is possible that Baninter?s media assets, which include newspaper List?n Diario, seized by the authorities last week, could be returned to proprietor Ram?n B?ez Romano. No formal agreement has yet been reached, but the proposal is that B?ez Romano, father of disgraced Baninter president Ram?n …

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Political analyst of the Listin Diario, Orlando Gil focuses today on the Power Point document those attending the press conference of Central Bank Governor Jose Lois Malkum at the Presidential Palace received that evening. The document, with ample details on the Baninter scandal, has been circulating widely by email. ?Nobody has asked why this document, …

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The PRD?s hopes for holding on to power in 2004 are under threat due to internal party wrangles, according to an analysis of the state of the three main parties in El Caribe. All three have at some time in their histories been subject to a split, but experience has shown that no breakaway leader …

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The country?s biggest port, Haina, west of Santo Domingo, has returned to its former dynamism following the removal of the 10% surcharge on imports imposed by the government as part of an austerity package earlier this year. El Caribe reports from the scene, where 50-60% more containers a day are coming in compared to the …

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Santo Domingo Sportswriters voted Juana Arrendel and Felix S?nchez, Athletes of 2002. The event sponsored by Cervecer?a Nacional Dominicana (Presidente Beer and Malta Morena malt) took place last night. Both athletes received RD$40,000 awards.  Arrendel had a great year and won the high jump gold at the Central American and Caribbean Games held in El …

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