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Queen Air began its daily flights to New York’s JFK airport this week. Flights leave Santo Domingo’s Las Américas International Airport at 8:00 am. Return flights to Santo Domingo depart JFK at 12:30 pm. Queen is utilizing a 170-passenger Airbus A-320 for the flights.

The Licey Tigers reminded everyone last night that the Cibao Eagles are not unbeatable, defeating them 3-2 in Cibao Stadium in Santiago. Today at 8:00 pm the Tigers play the Lions at Quisqueya Stadium in Santo Domingo and the Giants play the Eagles at Cibao Stadium.

The Senate suspended work yesterday and postponed debate on the bill to create a Monetary and Financial Code until next Tuesday, just as the Senate did the day before for the national budget. Late Tuesday a compromise accord was announced on the Code by Senate President Ramón Alburquerque and the President of the Association of …

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Prominent members of the Santo Domingo Accord (ASD), the longstanding alliance of the Dominican Revolutionary Party (PRD) with several smaller parties, yesterday rejected suggestions by Secretary of the Presidency Danilo Medina for reform of the Constitution. Speaking on the television program "Hola" on Monday, Medina had suggested that PRD might be persuaded to agree to …

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Home-run king and Most Valuable Player (MVP) Sammy Sosa told Hoy newspaper last night that, as much as he would like to do it, prior commitments in Puerto Rico and the U.S. preclude his participation in the Dominican delegation to lobby for Santo Domingo to host the 2003 Pan American Games. It was announced yesterday …

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The newspaper El Siglo has conducted an informal poll of ODEPA delegates due to vote this weekend on the site for the 2003 PanAm games. According to El Siglo, Santo Domingo already has 23 "solid" votes, enough to ensure that it makes it past the first round of voting and only four votes short of …

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The Administrator of the Banco de Reservas (Banreservas), Roberto Saladín will meet today with President Leonel Fernández and members of the Commission for Public Enterprise Reform (CREP) to discuss what to do with the massive debt owed to Banreservas by the state firms due to be capitalized. Concerns have recently been expressed about whether the …

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A "highly reliable source" in the National Drug Control Directorate (DNCD) told the afternoon news daily El Nacional yesterday that it not only arrested seven associates of accused Mexican money launderer Carlos Cabal Periche, but also has arranged to freeze bank accounts and close five phantom businesses connected to them. Cabal Periche, wanted in Mexico …

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Yesterday the District Attorney for the National District (DN), Francisco Domínguez Brito, added his voice to those warning of increasing credit and bank card fraud in the Dominican Republic. In recent weeks several newspapers have had feature articles on the growing problem, with general statements from regulators and commercial banks about how they are trying …

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The Solicitor-General of Montecristi District, Dr. Elbis Muñoz Sosa, ordered the imprisonment of Nicolás Villalona Marichal, alias "Sasote," for allegedly swindling more than twenty people in Montecristi province in providing false visas. Muñoz Sosa says "Sasote" gained more than RD$500,000 charging RD$60-70,000 a piece promising to deliver visas to Germany, Spain, Switzerland and the U.S. …

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