Dolores Vicioso – Page 8229

The Dominican Republic has joined the bandwagon of those accusing the Cuban-Venezuelan banker, Orlando Castro Yunes and his relatives, saying that they defrauded their insurance company’s Dominican policy holders alone of RD$200 million, not taking into consideration the huge losses suffered by shareholders and depositors in his banking concerns in this country before he fled …

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The country’s most modern rice mill, built in Nagua for more than RD$300 million contributed by the Italian government and the Dominican Republic, has remained closed since its official opening last year because the government has not disbursed the RD$50 million it committed to lend to the cooperative of growers to put the mill to …

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The price of unleaded motor fuel has increased to RD$26.20 a gallon, following an increase in international prices for the product which is imported. Unleaded fuel fluctuates according to market prices, as it is not controlled by the government as in the case of the standard petrol.

Two more buildings have been added to the medical complex under construction on the grounds of the old Perla Antillana horse-racing track. A nursing school and an outpatient consultation building have been added to the “Plaza de la Salud”, complementing the maternity-infant, geriatric, and traumatology hospitals, together with the Center for Advanced Medicine, the headquarters …

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President Joaquin Balaguer has ordered the Telecommunications Department to shut down the transmissions of Medios Educativos S.A., which has been broadcasting on channel 6, causing interference with the established user of that frequency, Circuito Independencia. Since the frequency unification measure enforced by Telecommunications, which orders all stations to broadcast on only one frequency throughout the …

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