Dolores Vicioso – Page 7287

A La Romana court determined it was not true that on 14 April a Dominican flag was burned by a group of Haitians during a "gagá" religious ceremony. Olaya Dotel, a contributor to Hoy newspaper explains that the court determined that all resulted from the imagination of the xenophobia of journalist Julio Perello who was …

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According to an analysis in El Caribe, the year 2000 US Census shows that the Dominican population in the United States has increased 47% in the past 10 years. It has gone from 520,151 in 1990 to 764,945 last year. The census shows that Dominicans make up 2.2% of the Hispanic population, that is in …

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The Dominican government chose the Canadian firm SNC Lavalin International for the construction of the RD$1,600 million aqueduct in the Southwest. The aqueduct is programmed to supply water to some 400,000 inhabitants in the southwestern provinces of Barahona, Bahoruco and Independencia. Ambassador Bruno Picard of Canada was present during the signing of the contract with …

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The Dominican government chose to go ahead with the issuing of the first Dominican sovereign bonds. Advocates of the bond say it will give the government the resources to reactivate the economy and carry out construction projects. The government appointed economist Andres Dauhajre to head the Unidad del Programa de Mediano Plazo de Financiamiento Externo, …

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President Hipolito Mejia has signed into law the Social Security Bill. He did so during a meeting of the cabinet on May 10 to commemorate the third anniversary of the death of PRD party leader, Dr. Jose Francisco Peña Gomez. The signing of the law starts a complex process to create a bureaucracy to manage …

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As reported in Hoy newspaper, the government and the PRD have rejected the positions expressed by the legal advisor to the President, Guido Gomez Mazara. He referred to making modifications to the Constitution "above whomever it may be", and said that all government jobs and social programs should be for PRD members. See http://www.dr1.com/daily/news051001.shtml President …

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Meanwhile, Gomez Mazara assumed full responsibility for the statements he made during the party meeting. He said he had no problem with defending his ideas and what surprised him was that the video was not shown earlier, as it was taken on 29 April. He confirmed that the PRD would reduce tp 40% the percentage …

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