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Police Chief Antonio Segundo Imbert Tesson handed over 1,142 firearms that were confiscated from people not authorized to carry them. Another 109 weapons were handed in as part of the goods for arms program promoted by the Catholic Church of Santo Domingo and Dominican businessman Fernando Mateo. The Goods for Arms program took place during …

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An agreement was finally reached between the University Council of the Universidad Autonoma de Santo Domingo (UASD) and the professors and lecturers which will allow classes to begin at the end of January after registration is completed. The professors, who had been on strike in protest against the failure of the university to pay their …

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The General Administrator of the Corporacion Dominicana de Electricidad (CDE) has announced that the state-owned electricity company will soon begin a scheme to check some 300,000 meters throughout the country in order to determine whether customers are being over or undercharged for electricity. It is widely recognized that the CDE loses much of its electricity …

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Pascual “Cuta” Perez, one of the most colorful yet controversial Dominican baseball players of the 1980’s and early 90’s, made a modest return to professional baseball last week with the Tigres del Licey. He pitched two scoreless innings against the Leones del Escogido during the “Round Robin” play-off between Licey, Escogido, the Estrellas Orientales and …

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The General Administrator of the Corporacion Dominicana de Electricidad (CDE) has announced that the state-owned electricity company will soon begin a scheme to check some 300,000 meters throughout the country in order to determine whether customers are being over or undercharged for electricity. It is widely recognized that the CDE loses much of its electricity …

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The Dominican ambassador in Spain, the aging veteran Dominican diplomat, Fabio Herrera Cabral, a former under minister for Foreign Relations for many years, told it “as it is”. In an interview with the Listin Diario, he said that the factura consular, or consular invoice, will be maintained because it is used by the Dominican government …

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The PRSC presidential candidate, Jacinto Peynado, successfully held his first mass rally in Puerto Plata. Marking the start of a strong push to make the finals in the race for President, Mr Peynado changed his strategy and put aside his criticism of the Balaguer administration and the close collaborators of the regime. He has now …

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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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