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The Superintendence of Power obliged power distributors to credit consumers with RD$22.5 million for last year. The 7,560 consumers who underwent the often torturous process of filing a claim received the credits from the company to make up for the excess billings in 2002. The Superintendence determined that the consumers were in the right in …

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El Caribe reports that bills that have been marked will no longer be accepted as legal tender as of 31 January. The Central Bank is expected to apply the deadline given last year for the removal of all such bills. After that date, people will need to be especially cautious when receiving cash, as any …

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Diario Libre newspaper explains that US dollars are increasingly scarce because the exchange houses want the government to lift the RD$20.80 to US$1 ceiling for the purchase of US currency. Removing this limit on currency exchange would break the so-called agreement the government had made with banks and exchange houses last month. The newspaper reports …

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According to a report in Diario Libre, the gross international reserves of the Dominican Republic stood at US$828.9 million at the end of 2002. Diario Libre says the figure is similar to that of 2001, less the US$500-million sovereign bond placement made in October 2001. The newspaper observes the reserve level kept high despite the …

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The spokesman for the majority PRD block of senators, Pedro Antonio (Papo) Luna (PRD-Sanchez Ramirez), says the PRD block will choose the two new judges for the Central Electoral Board (JCE), the government body responsible for organizing the 2004 presidential elections. As a result of a political agreement, the number of judges on the JCE …

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The president of the Central Electoral Board, Manuel Ramon Morel Cerda, said that the JCE has nothing to do with the hundreds of ID cards that were dumped in the Duquesa landfill. Instead, he blamed the political parties, who accuses of purchasing the cedulas when they suspect someone will vote against them. Morel Cerda said …

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Former Vice President Jacinto Peynado says he does not favor his party, the PRSC, allying with the ruling PRD in the 2004 presidential election. In the past, Peynado has ranked as the leading PRSC presidential candidate.  There has been recent speculation that the PRD would devise a pact with followers of a new PRSC contender, …

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El Caribe reports on a high number of child abuse cases being treated at the Robert Reid Children?s Hospital, the largest public children?s hospital in the country. Ninoska Isidor Ysmg, spokeswoman for the hospital?s Department for Protection of Children and Teenagers, called the situation alarming. She said that since the hospital began keeping statistics on …

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Forty-two graduate students of the agrochemical-engineering program at the Instituto Superior de Agricultura (ISA) in Santiago completed an intensive study of golf course maintenance. The Central Bank (Definpro) picked up the tab for the training that took place at the Playa Grande Golf Course on the North Coast. The Central Bank owns two golf courses, …

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Pilot Miguel Perez is recovering satisfactorily after performing a landing at sea on January 4. 32-year-old Freddy Medina, an airplane mechanic, died from injuries sustained in the emergency crash-landing. The two had taken off from Las Americas and were making their way to the Herrera airport, when the aircraft was forced from the skies into …

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