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The Junta Agroempresarial Dominicana is leading an effort to motivate the authorities into investigating and stopping illegal occupation of private property throughout the country. The influential private agricultural business organization said that the illegal occupations are taking up the same pattern as has occurred prior to previous elections, which leads the JAD into thinking that …

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Thousands of bags of imported rice are being stored at Almacenes Dominicanos de Depósitos (Almadom), a customs approved warehouse, after arriving in the country on 30 March via the port of Haina. The shipment has met with opposition from the Federación Dominicana de Comerciantes, whose executive director, Danilo Clime, said that the marketing by rice …

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Nothing is new. The electricity shortage in the Dominican Republic is far from over. In the past four years, there has been a de facto privatization of the generation of power in the Dominican Republic in response to the reluctance of the government to invest in power stations. More than 40% of the electricity generated …

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Minister of Foreign Relations Carlos Morales Troncoso denied that the DR is among the Latin American countries placing obstacles to the importation of U.S. products. A press release from Washington D.C. revealed that President Clinton has blacklisted its principal seven trading partners and another six on the American continent obstructing U.S. exports. He said there …

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The Dominican Association of Banks has published a paid advertisement in the dailies indicating that the statements made by the General Controller of the Republic, Víctor Grimaldi, on a Sunday television program, clears the Banco de Reservas de la República Dominicana, and confirms that there has been no robbery nor fraud involving the Dominican Republic …

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The director of the Oficina Técnica de Transporte Terrestre (OTT), Federico González Aviles, has warned that all public transport vehicles that do not carry identification plaques with the drivers’ photograph will be impounded by the police with immediate effect. The plaques, implemented last November, are designed to increase passenger safety by preventing “unknown” drivers from …

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The convicted Venezuelan drug-trafficker, Cesar Simon Abreu Suarez, whose escape from jail has constituted a well-publicized scandal in the news media, did not have an exit restriction, according to the director of the Immigrations Department, Vitelio Mejia Ortiz. Unnamed sources in Immigration told the newspaper El Nacional that when the news of Mr. Abreu Suarez’s …

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Contingents from the Dominican and United States Navies conducted a joint operation from 26-28 March with the purpose of trying to stop the flow of illegal emigrants from the D.R. to Puerto Rico through the Mona Channel. Operation “Halcon IV” included eight vessels from the U.S. Coast Guard and Border Patrol and two U.S. helicopters …

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The general administrator of the Corporación Dominicana de Electricidad (CDE), Amilcar Romero, has said that he will present a plan to illuminate Las Americas highway, which has been almost completely in the dark for five years. The highway links Santo Domingo to Las Americas International Airport. In the last two years, the highway has been …

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The Foreign Minster of the D.R., Carlos Morales Troncoso, met last week with the Director of the Latin American High Commission for India, Vibya Bushan Soni, in order to discuss efforts to forge closer relations between the two nations that could eventually lead to official diplomatic relations. During his visit to Santo Domingo, Mr. Soni …

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