1998 – Page 146

Ramón Urbaez, reporting from New York for Hoy newspaper, said that the New York authorities have suspended the program whereby illegal residents who had committed non-violent crimes with sentences still pending were deported to their countries of origin. The program was instated to save money to the New York penitentiary system. The program is suspended …

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On the same day the newspaper he dedicated his life to celebrated its 50th anniversary, 78-year old Germán Emilio Ornes Coiscou called it quits. He passed away of cardiac-respiratory arrest shortly before he would have attended the placing into circulation of his book "Monopoly and its Legal Situation in the Dominican Republic," as part of …

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It is expected that Fidel Castro will accept an invitation to visit the Dominican Republic en route to Lisbon, Portugal to attend the 8th Iberoamerican Summit. Latin American, Spanish and Portuguese statesmen participate in that annual summit. The 9th version of the meeting of chiefs of states will be held in Havana. This would be …

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Roberto Salcedo, candidate to mayor for Santo Domingo for the incumbent Partido de la Liberación Dominicana, said that he is capitalizing on what he described as the "irreversible crisis" of the Partido Revolucionario Dominicano, the result of the chaotic primaries held by that organization. He said that recent surveys show that he is gaining on …

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Dr. José Francisco Peña Gómez, leader of the Partido Revolucionario Dominicano and the party’s candidate to mayor for Santo Domingo, said in a press conference in New York City that no important organ of his body was affected by the health problems for which he traveled to New York City for treatment. Peña Gómez suffers …

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A committee of high-ranking members of the Partido Revolucionario Dominicano (PRD) visited the judges of the Junta Central Electoral, the court in charge of organizing the elections, to present proofs that the Partido de la Liberación Dominicana (PLD) is violating the electoral law. During the visit, representatives of the party requested that the electoral court …

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The president of Supreme Court of Justice, Dr. Jorge Subero Isa announced the appointment of 34 new judges that will work in Barahona, Bahoruco, Independencia and Pedernales jurisdictions of the Southwest. The appointments are part of efforts to renovate the Dominican justice system.

The principal federations of grocery wholesalers and retailers reached an agreement with the government and thus will desist from their call to a national grocer’s strike that had been set for 21 and 22 April. The owners of small grocery shops, or colmados, were demanding participation in the government sponsored food sales program, Alimentos para …

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The Ministry of Public Health said that 30-40% of public school children suffer from anemia. The director general of the nutrition department of the Ministry, Matilde Vasquez said that the Ministry is considering programs that would distribute iron supplements to children. Also considered is supplementing flour used to prepare bread.

Key officers of Major League baseball will be in Santo Domingo next week for the signing of a baseball agreement with the Caribbean League that groups baseball league teams in the Caribbean. The Major Leagues will help modernize the winter baseball that is played in Venezuela, Mexico, Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic. It will …

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