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El Caribe points out that in just one week, construction materials have increased in price by 16.35%. Hardware store representatives say that these increases are due to the very high banking interest rates, the depreciation of the peso, and increases in fuel prices.

Former Dominican ambassador in Washington, D.C., Bernardo Vega, writes in El Caribe that while trade negotiations in Central America have been transparent, in the case of the Dominican Republic one must access documents and statements from the US negotiators to find out what is happening. He says that the local press has not reported on …

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Deputy Pelegr?n Castillo urges the government to put the interests of the Dominican Republic first and not give in to international pressures in regards to Haiti. Speaking on TV last night with Frederico Henriquez Gratereaux, he questioned how former Haitian police chief Guy Phillipe entered the Dominican Republic from Ecuador when there is a prohibition …

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Baroness Amos, who recently visited the Dominican Republic, has just been appointed to International Development Secretary in Tony Blair?s cabinet. BBC news reports that she landed the job following the resignation of Clare Short, and that the reconstruction of Iraq will be at on the top of her in-tray. In the Dominican Republic, the Baroness …

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Diario Libre reports on the nudists that paraded along Abraham Lincoln Avenue on Sunday afternoon and early evening. Five smiling youths aboard a SUV Toyota Land Cruiser Prado, with license plate GR 6302 toured that area of the city, stopping in front of the Haagen Dasz ice-cream store on Rafael Augusto S?nchez and Restaurant Lincoln …

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The Dominican Republic won the ninth Central American and Caribbean Judo Championship, which was held at the handball pavilion of the Parque del Este and in which athletes from 20 countries participated. Gold medalists in the event were Jose Vicbart Geraldino, Juan Carlos Jacinto, Roberto de Le?n, Dulce Mar?a Pi?a, Tahira Alc?ntara and Jenny Mart?nez. …

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President Hip?lito Mej?a has cancelled his planned 12-day trip to Europe and the US, which was scheduled to begin tomorrow, Saturday 10 May. This news came too late for this morning?s papers, but by mid-morning other media were reporting on this sudden decision. The official reason given by government Press and Information director Luis Gonzalez …

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The reconciliatory lunch between PRD President Hatuey Decamps and President Hip?lito Mej?a, which was organized by fellow PRD presidential hopeful Rafael (Fello) Suberv? Bonilla, and was planned for today, has been postponed. The newspapers report that Decamps wants to meet with other party figures before sitting down with the President to discuss their differences of …

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The Dominican authorities yesterday released the five Haitians suspected of planning a coup against the Aristide government. The five men, among them ex-police chief Guy Philippe and former Haitian ambassador to the DR, Paul Arcelin, were arrested in Dajab?n on Tuesday. Direcci?n Nacional de Investigaciones (DNI), the Dominican version of the FBI, representative Fernando Cruz …

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Hoy newspaper reports in its lead story that Venezuela appears to be responding to last week’s granting of asylum to two dissident military officials by the Dominican authorities. Dominican oil refinery (REFIDOMSA) president Amaury Justo Duarte confirmed that three oil tankers scheduled to leave for Santo Domingo on Wednesday were not given permission to leave …

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