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El Siglo newspaper reports that fuel consumption increased 24% during the first semester of the year, compared to 1999. According to the Dominican Petroleum Refinery, only the consumption of premium unleaded gasoline declined, reflecting a price increase in October 1999, and the start of sale of cheaper-priced regular unleaded gasoline. The Dominican Petroleum Refinery reports …

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News reports indicate that President Leonel Fernandez’s father continues in coma. On 20 June, he suffered a double heart attack in Panama, where he was serving as the nation’s general consul. He was brought back in coma to the DR on 6 July and remains in coma at the Plaza de la Salud hospital. He …

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Radhames Segura, general administrator of the state electricity utility (CDE), clarified that it is not true that the Smith Enron power plant corporation continues to charge as per installed capacity. He said that during his administration, the contract was renegotiated. He said that now the state only pays per generated electricity. Likewise, he said the …

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President-elect Hipólito Mejía has chosen Luis Gonzalez Fabra as press director. Luis González Fabra will be the new Director of Information and Press of the National Palace as of 16 August. Yesterday he visited the press facilities at the National Palace. González Fabra carried out similar work during the President Salvador Jorge Blanco government (1982-86). …

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The Dominican Republic is working closely with Haiti to reduce the incidence of malaria on the island. Guillermo Gonzálvez, director of the National Center for the Control of Tropical Diseases said that there have been 867 cases of malaria reported this year, down from 3,590 last year. Most of these cases have occurred in the …

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President Leonel Fernandez received the credentials of ambassadors Dag Mork Ulnes of Norway, Erika Liebenwein of Austria and Antonin Blazek of Checoslovakia yesterday at the National Palace.

President Leonel Fernández addressed the nation and afterwards gave a press conference. He spoke in the presence of his cabinet members. Following are some of the main topics addressed and summaries of the answers. INDOTEL President-elect Hipólito Mejía has said that even if he violates the Constitution he will replace President Fernández’s recently appointed Telecommunications …

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The president of the National Business Council (CONEP), Celso Marranzini; the president of the Herrera Industrial Association, Antonio Espín, and former government officers Arturo Martínez Moya and Leopoldo Espaillat, as well as Arturo Villanueva, vice president of the Association of Hotels and Cardinal Nicolás López Rodríguez when interviewed by the Listín Diario newspaper favored the …

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The National Police reported the arrest of 50-year old Luis Colón Osorio a well publicized Puerto Rican terrorist who has been accused of drug trafficking and has been linked to the armed group that in 1983 stole US$7.2 million from a Wells Fargo bank in the US to help finance Puerto Rico independence activities. Colón …

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President Leonel Fernández is scheduled to address the nation tonight Monday, 17 July. At the end of his address he will take questions from the press. The Radio Televisión Dominicana telecast is scheduled for 8 pm. The last time he took questions from the press was on 9 February, when he addressed the capitalization process.