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Navy Chief Luis Alberto Humeau Hidalgo said the Navy will offer technical advice to the Ministry of Industry of Commerce in its purchase of three ships to form a Dominican merchant marine. The ships will be used to transport Dominican produce throughout the Caribbean, taking advantage of the recently-signed free trade agreement. Rear Admiral Humeau …

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The president of the Chamber of Deputies, Rafaela Alburquerque, said that President Hipolito Mejia will meet with former President Joaquin Balaguer to lobby for the passage of the bonds bill. Alburquerque said that after that meeting, the PRSC party deputies will receive their instructions on how to vote on the sovereign bond bill. The government …

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Vice President of the Senate Commission for Justice, Cesar Augusto Matias, has vowed that revised legal codes will be passed by Congress before 27 July, when the legislature closes. The 200-year-old codes were rewritten by the Comisionado de Reforma y Modernización de Justicia during the Fernandez administration. They encompass the penal code, criminal code, penal …

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El Siglo newspaper today denounces Haitian merchants for exporting charcoal produced in the DR to Haiti. It is illegal to cut trees to produce charcoal in the DR. The charcoal is transported in trucks and sailboats from the border zones where it is processed. A bag of charcoal sells for 160 pesos in Port au …

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The Dominican Republic will export more than 350 million cigars to Europe and the US this year. The director of the Instituto Nacional del Tabaco, Fabio Fermin Acosta, told El Siglo newspaper that this is a hefty increase over last year’s export total of 200 million cigars. The newspaper reports that the leading exporting companies …

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Luis Ernesto Camilo says that his Department of Passports is ready to issue digitalized passports using equipment donated by the US government. Dominican passports were handwritten until now. He said the Department has digitalized about half of the seven million passports on file. The process will be completed in a month and a half. Camilo …

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The Ministry of Public Works is working on the installation of new traffic lights at 267 intersections in Santo Domingo. The new system comes with TV cameras that synchronize the lights with the traffic flow. It is the same system they have in Madrid and Malaga in Spain, Gaudalajara, Mexico, Sao Paolo, Rio de Janeiro …

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Power distributors requested the government get up to date on paying its power bills. Reportedly the three distributor companies have only received payment of RD$1.5 million on a debt of RD$25 million. Minister of Industry and Commerce Angel Lockward, and the general administrator of the Dominican Electricity Corporation, Cesar Sanchez, called on all government offices …

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