Dolores Vicioso – Page 7519

Michael Small, president of Centennial Communications Corporation, Carlos Bofill, president of Centennial Communication Corporations for the Caribbean and other leading executives of the US telecommunications firm were in Santo Domingo last week for the events that marked the merger with a Dominican company. Centennial Dominicana began operations in the DR in January and expects to …

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Armed forces proceeded to evict 70 families that refused to accept relocation offers by the Grupo Punta Cana in the La Altagracia province. The Punta Cana tourism entrepreneurs battled the eviction of the squatters for more than 20 years. They had received eviction judgments but these had not been able to be implemented by the …

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The director of the National Office of Planning, Rafael Camilo said that at 23% of the public sector employees cannot be cancelled by the new government without there being a violation of the law. The Ley de Carrera Civil y Administrativa, the law regulating public service employees grants special status to public employees with more …

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Former President Juan Bosch, founder of the PRD and PLD political parties, returned yesterday to Santo Domingo. He had been hospitalized at the Centro Medico de Investigaciones Quirurgicas since 28 June. Previously he had been hospitalized at the Air Force military hospital. Bosch is 91 years old and suffers from neurological problems. President Leonel Fernandez …

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President-elect Hipólito Mejia said in Santiago that his government will see that Puerto Plata gets a new power generator to guarantee adequate power supply to the Cibao region. He spoke when visiting Santiago where he attended the 30th graduation of the Instituto Superior de Agriculture. At the event, he was awarded a Honoris Causa doctorate. …

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President-elect Hipólito Mejía is slated to speak in the United Nations Summit of the Millenium that opens in New York City on 6 September and continues through the 8th. His seven-minute speech is scheduled for the afternoon of Friday, 6 September. In the morning, the Presidents of the United States and Russia have been programmed.

President-elect Hipolito Mejia said his government would finish the convention center, started by the Balaguer administration (1994-96) and abandoned by the Fernandez administration. The convention center would be government seat for the Cibao region. The contractors say RD$88 million is needed to complete the center, but that it could be ready for use in eight …

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Luis Emilio de la Rosa Beras, one of the men accused of the murder of Ahora news magazine editor Orlando Martinez, said that then Major of the Air Force Joaquin Antonio Pou Castro directed the plot against the journalist. He said in the ongoing trial being heard in Santo Domingo that Mariano Durán Cabrera and …

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El Siglo newspaper reports that a Dominican swimmer will be present in the Sydney Olympic Games. Guillermo Cabrera, who swims for the Madre y Maestra University team in Santiago, made the times for the event. This will be the first time a Dominican swims in an Olympic Games. Other sports that have qualified to participate …

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Lawyer Luis Heredia Bonetti, a former president of the American Chamber of Commerce, is again proposing that the Dominican and Haitian foreign debt be consolidated into a development fund focused on development in Haiti. The proposal was first made five years ago, but Heredia Bonetti says it is even more timely now. In an interview …

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