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The JCE has decided that women will vote in the first session on election day following the new closed college voting scheme established by the modified electoral law. The president of the Junta Central Electoral, Dr. César Estrella Sadhalá, said on television last week that an estimated 3,700,000 people have the vote in the Dominican …

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Jacobo Majluta, the presidential candidate for the Partido Revolucionario Independiente, considered the fourth most important political party in the Dominican Republic, will remain in the United States until February to continue with his medical treatment. He left for the United States in mid-October, and while it has been said he is being treated for problems …

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Dr. Jose Francisco Peña Gomez returned on 12 January to Santo Domingo after a tour of India, the United States, and France., according to a press release from the PRD. He attended the funeral of the former French President Francois Mitterand. He was present in his capacity as president of the International Socialist organization’s Committee …

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Senators from the Acuerdo de Santo Domingo, the alliance of the PRD and minority parties, are delaying on the approval of the Codigo Monetario y Financiero given the fact that that law is a pre-requisite for the disbursement of US$102 million granted by the Interamerican Development Bank to strengthen the financial sector. The Acuerdo de …

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Leonel Fernández, presidential candidate of the PLD, returned to Santo Domingo on Wednesday, 10 January, after several days visiting Miami and Taiwan. He spent five days in Taiwan at the invitation of its government. He met the Taiwanese President and the ministers for the economy, health, education and foreign affairs. Upon his arrival he told …

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The Federacion Dominicana de Colonos Azucareros (Fedoca), which groups sugar cane growers, said that the State Sugar Council (CEA) has not been able to pay off its debt with them, because it has been administered to favor political people who traditionally collect monthly checks from that institution. It condemned the practice in the CEA where …

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High prices for four products and a crisis in the state sugar industry marked the opening of the New Year. 1996 brought higher prices in basic staples such as rice, potatoes, cooking oil and butter. Also, the information published in the evening newspaper Ultima Hora adds, flour is now being sold at RD$300 instead of …

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Mr. Cesar Garcia Victoria, president of the Association of Brokers, told the newspaper Hoy that “there are still quite a lot of limitations which do not allow normal operations at the Santo Domingo Stock Exchange. “For instance,” Mr. Garcia said, “in Santo Domingo we are not allowed to trade in hard currencies such as Sterling, …

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The Federacion de Colonos Azucareros (FEDOCA), says that the State Sugar Council will incur a deficit of RD$1,100 million during the next grinding season. This will not allow the State sugar industry (CEA) to pay the RD$419 million they owe the organization’s members. During the last two years, continues the report in the Listin Diario, …

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The country exported minerals worth RD$2,884 million during the final quarter of last year, according to the Central Bank bulletin, Principales Indicadores Economicos del Banco Central. Gold production for the last quarter of 1995 was 75,843 troy ounces, while during the first nine months of last year, Falconbridge Dominicana produced 23,113 tonnes of nickel. Falconbridge …

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