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Leading executives of Canadian government pro-business and trade organizations are in Santo Domingo for the opening of the First Canada-Dominican Republic Workshop to take place starting at 8 am, Tuesday, 4 February at the Hotel Melia Santo Domingo. The event is being organized by the Dominican-Canadian Chamber of Commerce and the Canadian Embassy in the …

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Former Vice President Jaime David Fernandez Mirabal has launched his quest for the Partido de la Liberacion Dominicana presidential nomination in the 16 May 2004 elections. Fernandez Mirabal was vice president under the Leonel Fernandez presidency from 1996-2000 and his campaign has the support of the Movimiento Nacional Somos Mas. Leonel Fernandez, however, is the …

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The police placed a permanent vigil at the San Pedro de Macoris Antonio Musa public hospital, where 20-year-old Rosa Mirtha Rosario was interned after suffering serious injuries from being beaten and tortured with an iron, electrical wires and other objects by her boyfriend. The woman was rescued by her neighbor. The man responsible for her …

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The La Vega carnival, perhaps the most colorful carnival of the Caribbean, began on Sunday with the participation of 150 groups and about 1,000 costumed characters parading through the streets of the town. La Vega is situated about one-hour?s distance from Santo Domingo. Each Sunday in February (9, 16, 23 and 27 February), as of …

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Power rates will rise 12 percent in February, meaning that residential consumers will now be billed a fixed charge of RD$5.56, plus RD$2.74 per kWh for the first 300 kilowatt-hours, and RD$3.41 per kWh for all additional kilowatt-hours. The Superintendence of Power Resolution SIE-05-2003, published in newspapers today, also aims the increases at industrial and …

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Resolution SIE-06-2003, as published today by the Superintendence of Power, eliminates the so-called toll the department had authorized power distributors to levy on companies to discourage them from purchasing power directly from the large power generators at considerable savings. Large companies had protested the illegality of the toll for months.  Only very large companies are …

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Roberto Salcedo, Mayor of Santo Domingo, denounced the fact that the governmental Banco de Reservas has withdrawn an initial RD$4 million from their city account of RD$26 million. The bank is making good on the city government?s guarantee of a RD$280-million loan taken by Salcedo?s predecessor, Johnny Ventura (PRD). Ventura, despite not having funds to …

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Flavio Dario Espinal, dean of the Law School at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica Madre y Maestra, focuses his column in El Caribe on the challenges ahead for the political parties that need to hold primaries to choose their candidates to the May 2004 presidential election. The PRSC has had to face reality since what its …

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In Ultima Hora, former tourism director Peter Morales wrote an open letter to John Muller, president of the Isla Dominicana, the franchisor of the gas station that is being erected on land that divides the Las Americas Expressway near the Las Americas free zone. Morales publicly requests that Muller explain the premise of the gas …

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After weeks of being undervalued, the Euro has crept up to its estimable real worth in exchange markets in the Dominican Republic. The Listin Diario reports that yesterday, the Euro was being bought for 30 points more than the US dollar at a price of RD$24.74 each. The dollar was selling for about RD$23.50.