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If you can deal with getting up at 3 am to be at the Museum of Natural History by 3:45 am, then you can get a look at the meteorite rainfall that can be spectacularly seen by telescope at dawn of Wednesday, 17 November. The Museum is charging RD$50 admission. The rainfall of baseball to …

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Dominican home run king Sammy Sosa yesterday sold at auction in Japan bats and uniforms to raise US$37,000 to bring home to the DR to help the families left homeless by Hurricane Georges. He also visited with Japan’s Foreign Minister, Masahiko Komura, to solicit Japanese aid for the Dominican reconstruction effort in the wake of …

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Los Leones del Escogido routed the Gigantes del Nordeste yesterday, 11-3, in a game played in San Francisco de Macoris. In the process the Lions secured at least third place in the Winter Professional Baseball Tournament. The two teams are due to play each other again today at 8 PM in Quisqueya Stadium, while the …

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The State Department has confirmed that US First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton will visit the DR for 36 hours starting on Thursday, 19 November. She will arrive in Santo Domingo after a three-day tour to Central America. In Honduras, Nicaragua, El Salvador and Guatemala, the First Lady will tour devastated areas or visit with officers …

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President Leonel Fernández vetoed the changing of the name of the Las Americas International Airport, the principal Dominican passenger port of entry. Congress has passed a bill that changes of name of the terminal to that of Dr. José Francisco Peña Gómez, in honor of the late long time Dominican Partido Revolucionario Dominicano politician. The …

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The Chamber of Deputies, which gathers the best paid Dominican public employees, in its most recent sessions period, is able to show as results only two bills passed and an international treaty. The Chamber spent most of the three months of the session approving 49 resolutions. The resolutions cannot be enforced and serve merely as …

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Partido Revolucionario Dominicano pre-candidates’ propaganda has begun to litter the capital city of Santo Domingo. Posters and bill boards promoting Hipólito Mejía, Milagros Ortíz Bosch and Rafael (Fello) Suberví now pollute city space that Hurricane Georges had cleaned up quite a bit. These politicians, along with Hatuey De Camps and Rafael Abinader, aspire to become …

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El Siglo political analyst Emilio Herasme Peña comments that the Partido Reformista Social Cristiano of former President Joaquín Balaguer is holding on to the possibility of a PRSC man being elected secretary general of the Liga Municipal Dominicana in order to maintain an important political presence. The PRSC launched the successful "come-solo" slogan in the …

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Johnny Ventura is trying, making the announcement of cancellation of 800 PRD activists at the municipality, but he will have a hard time changing the image of the Santo Domingo Municipality as a welfare institution which houses thousands political activists who can use the income. Wendy Santana of El Siglo newspaper did a breakdown of …

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The Dominican Mining Chamber president, Luis Rafael Pellerano urged that President Leonel Fernández decide over the future of the Rosario Mining Company. The exploitation of the sulphide ore reserves are estimated at more than 100 millions tons, which could generate billions during the well over 30 years life span of the mine. In 1996, the …

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