Dolores Vicioso – Page 7248

The press has denounced confrontations between competing drug gangs in the Capotillo slum of Santo Domingo, to the point the area has been called “no man’s land.” When journalists asked the president of the National Department for the Control of Drugs (DNCD) about this, he responded: “That is what we want, that the drug dealers …

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President Hipolito Mejia announced that as of Monday, 2 July members of his cabinet will appear on TV to explain how they found their departments and the programs they have carried out during the first year of government. The presentations will be on Mondays and Thursdays on Television Dominicana, Channel 4, the state television station. …

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President Mejia urged his government officers to not discuss their differences in public. He especially referred to the heated debates between government officers on economic matters. The President said that the discussions are projecting a distorted image of the present administration. Furthermore, during the Government Council held yesterday at the National Palace he urged the …

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The garage and maintenance workshop of Urbaser Dominicana, a private garbage collection company, were closed down yesterday by the Ministry of Environment. The Ministry had given the company 80 days to relocate from the La Isabelita neighborhood, in eastern Santo Domingo. The neighbors had protested the bad smells generated when the trucks were washed, the …

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Physicians at the Centro de Gastroenterologia of the Luis Eduardo Aybar public hospital say that cancer of the colon is up significantly among Dominicans. They attribute this to diet changes in the past 10 years. The physicians said there has been an increase in fried foods and fast food consumption over the past decade. He …

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The Attorney General of the Province of Monseñor Nouel (Bonao) said that anti-narcotics agents are in complicity with the leading drug dealers in Bonao. Nicanor Martin Ferreira said that the bosses of drug trafficking in the area have arranged so that the Drug Control Department may arrest one or two small time dealers from time …

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The director of the children and teenager protection department of the Attorney General’s office, Elisa Sanchez denounced the use of Haitian children by gangs to introduce drugs and guns across the frontier. She said the number of Haitian children arrested in the frontier area for this crime is increasing at alarming rates. She said the …

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Top executives from Hyundai, Hanjung and Samsung, three large Korean manufacturers, will travel to the DR next month to promote the installation of nuclear, hydroelectric and petroleum-powered electricity generators. Kook Bo Yang, spokesman for the Korea Trade Center said that executives from Hyundai Heavy Industry will use the DR as a platform to launch their …

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Dominican apparel export volume to the US declined 14.48% from January to April 2001. During that period 22,424 square meters of clothes were exported. The value in US$ of those exports, nevertheless, only declined 0.17%. The stagnation is attributed to the slowdown of the US economy and the competition from El Salvador and Honduras. From …

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