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The body of 16 year old Lucecita Valdivia, who lives in Italy with her mother and was vacationing in the DR staying with her grandparents, was found dead on Boca Chica beach on Monday. Her father, Esteban Valdivia, said she had last been seen on Sunday with her boyfriend and neighbor, 21 year old Hamlet …

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Santo Domingo is hosting the 2001 Panamerican Weight Lifting Championships. The event opens Wednesday, 25 July and will continue until Monday, 30 July. Competitors from 18 countries are participating in the event at the auditorium of the Ministry of Public Works. The president of the International Weight Lifting Federation, Dr. Tamas Ajan, is in town …

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President Hipolito Mejia has assumed full responsibility for choosing the builders of the Northwest Aqueduct, a project that will cost more than RD$2,800 million (or US$160 million). News reports indicate that President Mejia favors the Brazilian firm Odebrecht (http://www.odebrecht.com.br/). He said the contract has not been signed yet, but that he will have the last …

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The president of the Senate Ramon Alburquerque warns the Executive Branch about onerous borrowing, sometimes for projects for which the final destination of the money is not known. One of the loans highlighted by Alburquerque is for US$50 million for signposting. President Mejia says that Alburquerque is miffed because he was not chosen as PRD …

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In its editorial today, El Caribe newspaper focuses on the debate between the President of the Senate and President Mejia regarding the recent borrowing spree of the PRD administration. “What is meaningful in the recent statements is not that they were made, as President Mejia says, by Ramon’s “hangover”, who has not yet recovered from …

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The Dominican Republic has established diplomatic relations with Nigeria. Nigeria is the third African country with which the DR has diplomatic relations, along with Egypt and South Africa. Florentina Adenike Ukonga, high commissioner for the Federal Republic of Nigeria in Jamaica, signed the joint declaration that marks the new relationship.

AES Distribuidora del Este announced it will cut service tomorrow to 16 government departments that are in arrears with their payments. Manuel Lopez San Pablo, spokesman for the company, said that of 18 government departments, only the National Palace and the Chamber of Accounts are up to date on their power payments. AES had given …

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President Hipolito Mejia promised apartments would be allotted to members of the national women’s volleyball team which qualified to participate in the Germany World Cup. He said apartments would also be forthcoming to members of the men’s team if they also manage to qualify for the world cup. The men have traveled to Canada to …

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A day before the opening of an International Conference on Seismic Risk in the Caribbean in Santiago, an earthquake registering four on the Richter Scale was felt in the Cibao region. The seismology department of the Universidad Autonoma de Santo Domingo reported that the earthquake was felt Monday, 23 July at 1:50 pm in the …

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Unable to compete with the widespread mobile phone technologies, Skytel has announced it will close its Dominican Republic beeper service on 31 July. El Caribe reports that the company was unable to match rates of competing companies. The entrance of Orange and Centennial into the market also were affecting the company forcing the decision to …

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