1996 – Page 72

Representatives of the board of directors of the Instituto Dominicano de Seguro Social (IDSS) and doctors of the Asociación Dominicana Médica (AMD) employed at IDSS hospitals have not been able to reach an agreement to end the work stoppage that has gone on for more than six months. During a meeting on the night of …

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In its official Good Friday sermon, the Catholic Church criticized Dominicans for being indifferent and for their apathy to the problems that affect the country, stating that the nation is living in a democratic system contaminated by corruption, social disorder, delinquency, violence and a lost of trust in justice and the official institutions. It issued …

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The political campaigns resumed in full after the change of pace for Holy Week. Contenders in the presidential race are Jose Francisco Peña Gómez, Leonel Fernández, Vice President Jacinto Peynado, and José Rafael Abinader and Rafael Alburquerque because other minority parties were disqualified by the Junta Central Electoral last week. The presidential candidates had retired …

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President Joaquín Balaguer maintained his evasive attitude last week when, on Tuesday, after an hour long political procession by himself through Cibao communities to support the PRSC presidential candidate Jacinto Peynado, and following an inauguration of a housing project, he responded to journalists questions. This time the President has not been answering journalists questions since …

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PRSC presidential candidate Jacinto Peynado told Hoy that his supposed differences with President Balaguer are but speculations of an active press. He said that now that President Balaguer is campaigning for the party, and the future work unfolded by himself and his vice presidential candidate Maribel Gassó, it will push the party ahead. “It is …

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Maribel Gassó, vice presidential candidate for the PRSC, challenged her fellow vice presidential candidates to a debate the manifestos of their respective political organizations. Maribel Gassó said that despite what the surveys and polls are showing in this election no candidate can claim victory until the JCE declares the winner. The 37-year old Maribel, as …

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José Francisco Peña Gómez commented in Hoy last week, that if Leonel Fernández, the presidential candidate for the Partido de la Liberación Dominicana, wins the election, he will be subject to the whims of President Balaguer. The PLD only has one senator in Congress and 13 deputies, and will therefore depend on President Balaguer’s support …

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Anisia Risi, the former director of customs who was accused of being a party to defrauding the State of over RD$1,000 million, sent to jail for several months and then freed, made the newspaper headlines again, reminding Dominicans that she is in town and enjoying her alleged new found wealth. A Santo Domingo court examined …

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The PLD presidential candidate, Leonel Fernández, said on television last week that corruption costs the nation RD$30 thousand million every year. In a speech on television he explained his four point anti-corruption program. He said that first he would seek to develop loyalty among public officers, whereby the state recognizes and awards their work in …

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The widow of Jacobo Majluta, the late presidential candidate for the Partido Revolucionario Independiente, has joined the political campaign and will support José Francisco Peña Gómez for the presidency. Mrs. Elisa Villanueva viuda Majluta participated in a campaign rally with Peggy Cabral de Peña, the wife of José Francisco Peña Gómez and Hortensia Méndez de …

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