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The Dominican Association of Teachers is on strike today in the National District and Santiago, demanding back pay owed to teachers across the country and a pay raise in next year’s budget. A report in Listín Diario says the work stoppage will give more than half a million students a day off. The union had …

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The Chamber of Deputies has finally approved an exchange of land for apartments where the Pan Am Village is being built. The contract was approved yesterday without any of the opposition and difficulties that had stalled it in previous sessions. With this act, the state passed ownership of a piece of land in La Caleta …

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US government authorities are in the DR investigating vehicles stolen in the states and brought to this country with fake consular documents. El Siglo says it has learned that more than 50 luxury vehicles of various makes and models were stolen in New York, Boston, Miami and New Jersey and sent here using false invoices …

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The majority of candidates for the 2002 congressional and municipal elections have broken an agreement not to put election posters on the main streets and avenues of the capital. The accord prohibits placing campaign publicity on public property on Avenida 27 de Febrero, John F. Kennedy, Independencia, Winston Churchill, Abraham Lincoln and other major thoroughfares …

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A union representative says the new “4 x 4” work schedule for free zones will lead to more work-related accidents. Carsten Flint Hunneche of the Danish Union Council says the new hours violate international agreements and the laws of this country. That opinion is shared by the National Council of United Syndicates (CNUS) which had …

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