1996 – Page 62

Expo USA will again take place in Santo Domingo. The exhibition of U.S. goods sold in the country will be held this year at the Salon Las Tres Carabelas of the Hotel V Centenario from June 14-16. The exhibition is sponsored by the Commercial Section of the U.S. Embassy. Expo USA is in its seventh …

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The new Minister of Foreign Affairs, Caonabo Javier Castillo, will now decide whether the country adheres to agreements signed with GATT and the World Trade Organization in regard to staples such as sugar, rice, milk, chicken, beans, garlic, onions and corn, or gives way to local special interest pressure groups which are advocating protectionist measures …

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There are 405,458 vehicles in the Dominican Republic, says the Dirección General de Rentas Internas, the government department in charge of issuing number plates. Of these, 294,110 are from Asia, 36,062 from Europe and 44,559 from the United States. There are 234,482 cars, 133,400 goods vehicles, 19,533 buses and 17,973 “jeeps”. According to the figures, …

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Following the deportation of ex-Haitian military officials from the D.R. to Honduras, a mass operation to repatriate Haitians illegally residing here has been undertaken. According to press reports, more than 5,000 have been sent back to Haiti during the last two weeks. The operation has been criticized by the Dominican Committee on Human Rights, Virgilio …

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The Dominican Foreign Minister, Carlos Morales Troncoso, and the United States Ambassador to the D.R., Donna Jean Hrinak, have signed an agreement that outlines the mechanism for the return of vehicles stolen in the U.S. and brought to the D.R., to be returned to their legitimate owners. Mr. Morales Troncoso praised the accord as a …

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The charges made in March by the General Controller Victor Grimaldi, in which he accuses two Ministers of Industry and Commerce of embezzling money destined for the purchase of stoves for poor families in the national parks, have been disregarded by the National Attorney General, Luis Nelson Pantaleon Gonzalez. On 12 March, Mr. Grimaldi made …

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On 30 April, doctors belonging to the Asociación Médica Dominicana (AMD) finally returned to work in the public hospitals, after exactly six months on strike. Their return took place after they were paid for the months of January, February, March and April by the Ministry of Public Health despite not having worked during those months. …

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The director of the Clinica Corazones Unidos, one of the most well-known charitable private clinics in the D.R., has complained that several patients destined to receive kidney transplants have not been given new organs and subsequently died. Dr. Luis Cuello Mainardi claims that of approximately 100 transplants that are needed in the D.R. every year, …

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After the lightning operation against heavily armed drug dealers in the neighborhood of Gualey on 12 April, a wave of calm and tranquillity has hit the area, which was widely recognized as one of the most dangerous in the capital and as the center of heavy drug-traffic. According to Arsenio Ramirez of the Listin Diario …

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The construction of buildings which are to be used for two-year technical degrees at the state-run Universidad Autonoma de Santo Domingo (UASD) is about to be stopped, according to the Listin Diario newspaper. In its 3 May edition, the newspaper reports that the Interamerican Development Bank, which is sharing the cost of the project with …

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