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Minister of Education Milagros Ortiz Bosch said that the start of the school year will be used by the government to bolster programs to reduce poverty. She said her department will distribute 200,000 school uniforms, an equal number of shoes, 10 million textbooks, 25,000 bicycles and will issue a monthly expenditures card of RD$300 to …

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The National Council of the Magistracy will meet on 13 September, convened by President Hipolito Mejia. Guido Gomez Mazara, legal advisor to the President, said the three new judges on the Supreme Court will be chosen with transparency. Diario Libre explains that the PRSC allied with the PRD, giving the ruling party dominance in the …

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Commuters who have to drive through the Navarette crossing from Santiago to Puerto Plata find it hard to understand why the government is taking so long to finish the expansion of the highway. It was begun three years ago and is proceeding at an unusually slow pace for the past year. Nevertheless, the Minister of …

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Whoever said that show business success can translate into good government? Whoever said that a TV producer makes a good manager? There is evidence to the contrary, but Dominican political parties still want to piggyback on the popularity of show people. TV and radio producer Rafael Corporan has been the mayor of Santo Domingo, and …

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Former Vice President Jacinto Peynado, the most likely presidential candidate for the PRSC in the 2004 election, suggests that the government reduce the three main taxes to 10%. He proposes in an article in the Listin Diario today that the government reduce the ITBIS (sales tax) to 10% and apply it to all products, reduce …

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The Listin Diario reports that the Mejia administration has told the contractor that won a tender to build major highways that it is no longer interested in their participation in the RD$6 billion projects. The contracts were signed in February between the Ministry of Public Works and the Concesionaria Dominicana de Autopistas y Carreteras, S.A. …

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A French company chosen by the Mejia administration to turn Manzanillo port into a container terminal has announced the start of work on the project. Groupe Balguerie is the shipping port development partner of Trans Dominicana de Desarrollo. A first phase calls for the investment of US$200 million in the next two years. The port …

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The DR is about to become the leading exporter of potatoes to potato loving Puerto Rico. Juan Figuereo, general manager of Frito Lay Dominicana, said their plantations will soon produce enough potatoes to turn the DR into the leading potato exporter of the Caribbean. He says potato production in the DR will be tripled.