1998 – Page 136

The parents of José Rafael Llenas Aybar, the 12-year old boy stabbed to death two years ago, requested that the lawyers of the two 18-year olds who have confessed their participation in the assassination reveal the names of others supposedly involved and who are not yet part of the judicial record. The sixth grader’s corpse …

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Father Milton Ruiz, preaching during the mass held at the Iglesia Cristo Salvador in the Honduras neighborhood, said that 12-year Jose Rafael Llenas Aybar had become "the nation’s son." The boy who "one day left his home as the son of the José Rafael Llenas and Ileana Aybar, overnight became the son of a nation …

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The Dominican Republic won the Group III of the American Zone of the Davis Cup 1998 in Santa Cruz, Bolivia. The Dominican team defeated Costa Rica. Winning players were Johnson García and Rodrigo Vallejo. The captain of the team, Rafael Moreno, is a former winner of many Davis Cup games.

Air Force corporal Santos Segundo Eusebio del Rosario gave the Dominican Republic its only medal, a gold, that was sufficient to rank the DR sixth among the 22 nations that participated in the weekend’s Pan American Karate Championships. The championships were preparatory rounds for the Central American and Caribbean Games of Venezuela, the Pan American …

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The DR1 daily news service will not be updated on Monday, 4 May. Monday is a holiday in the Dominican Republic commemorating International Labor Day. While the Labor Day actually fell on 1 May, the day off was passed by law to Monday to not interrupt the Saturday morning work day. The DR1 news and …

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The Junta Central Electoral president Juan Sully Bonelly said that President Leonel Fernández is in his full right to campaign for the candidates of his party and attend promotional events organized by his party, the Partido de la Liberación Dominicana. Opposition parties have criticized President Fernández’s presence at acts where PLD candidates to congress and …

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President Leonel Fernández traveled to La Vega, in the center of the Dominican Republic, to formally inaugurate the expansion of the Autopista Duarte, the nation’s main thoroughfare. The 180 kilometer stretch from Santo Domingo to Santiago of the highway that continues on to Puerto Plata in the North Coast was expanded to four and six …

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American Life and General Insurance Company (Alico) became the second Dominican company to launch a private individual pension plan. Alico follows the Grupo Financiero Popular which earlier launched a plan that provides for the retirement years of Dominican employees. Francisco Cabreja, president of Alico, said that employees’ moneys are best handled by private companies rather …

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The Ministry of Education and the Corporación de Fomento Industrial, which administers 13 industrial free zone parks around the country, signed an agreement whereby the Ministry of Education will assist the CFI in setting up programs principally to educate illiterate free zone workers. The programs will be expanded to facilitate that free zone workers may …

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Antonio Espín, candidate to vice mayor of Santo Domingo, on the Partido Reformista Social Cristiano (PRSC) ballot, is advocating that the citizens of Santo Domingo demand responsibility from the next mayor of Santo Domingo. Some 2.7 million people live in the National District (Santo Domingo) which has an area of 200 square kilometers. While the …

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