Dolores Vicioso – Page 7495

High jumper Juana Arrendel and weight lifters Miosotis Heredia and Wendy Santana finally received their promised apartments. The winners of gold medals in international competitions are thrilled that the governmental promise was at last fulfilled. Miosotis Heredia and Juana Arrendel are neighbors in a new government complex in San Pedro de Macorís, their hometown. Wendy …

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Fuel prices went up in the DR on Sunday, 27 August at 6 am. Fuel prices had been last increased in October 1999, when international market prices were nearing US$25 the barrel. They are now beyond the US$30 level and some market observers have said they could reach the US$40 level. New prices are: Premium …

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District Attorney Máximo Aristy Caraballo ensured that the judiciary would be back at work today (Monday) with the integration of new assistant district attorneys, including the confirmation of 20 previously employed. Last Thursday, the government fired 84 assistant district attorneys. President Hipolito Mejia appointed their replacements on Friday by Decree 605-00. The cancellations disrupted operations …

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Former controller of the Republic Haivanjoe Ng Cortiñas presented official documents that show that the Fernández administration paid US$3,874,0000 for the eight Chilean T35 B Pillan airplanes and not US$22 million as Puerto Plata Senator Ginette Bournigal had denounced making front page headlines. The Puerto Plata senator had denounced that the Fernández administration had paid …

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Nassim Alemany, president of the Association of Industries of the Dominican Republic (AIRD), said that the new building that will house several of the leading business organizations in the DR will be operational in December of this year. The project is an initiative of AIRD and is carried out together with Promotora García Armenteros. The …

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President Hipólito Mejía created the Consejo Nacional para el Desarrollo Minero and the Unidad Corporativa Minera to reinforce Dominican efforts at developing a mining industry. and appointed himself the head of the new Council. Board members of the new Consejo Nacional para el Desarrollo Minero, a national council for mining development, will be the Minister …

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After a decade of a positive trade balance with the US, globalization has turned things around for the DR. According to a report in El Siglo, the US-DR trade balance is now in the US favor. The DR had imported US$134 million more than it had exported in the first semester. Import levels are increasing …

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Bernardo Vega, a well known Dominican historian and economist, writing in the Listín Diario, favors what he describes as the peaceful and civilized repatriation of illegal Haitians living in the DR in order to reduce the presence of Haitians in the DR. He says that the ongoing unchecked massive immigration of indigent Haitians will eventually …

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El Siglo newspaper reports on comments made by the president of the Dominican Olympic Committee and Organizing Committee of the 2003 Santo Domingo Pan American Games. Dr. José Joaquín Puello said on the Uno + Uno television program produced by Juan Bolívar Díaz and Adalberto Grullón on Teleantillas that the Games will cost RD$900 million …

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The National Orchestra of Spain, the most important in Spain, is scheduled for a 14 September performance at 8:30 pm at the National Theater. Theater-goings will be treated to the Concierto de Aranjuez and El Amor Brujo. The orchestra is directed by Rafael Fruhbeck de Burgos. Tickets: RD$500 and RD$1,000, RD$300-RD$750 are for sale at …

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