1998 – Page 43

The General Controller’s Office announced that it has released the RD$25 million peso September monthly allotment for the Junta Central Electoral following the ruling of Judge Nurys Landry de Castillo. But daily newspapers said that the funds had not been received at the electoral court as of 5 pm yesterday. The JCE is awaiting a …

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Adjunct Secretary of the Department of State for Latin America and the Caribbean, John Hamilton will visit with President Leonel Fernández today. This is his second visit to the Dominican statesman this year. He visited yesterday with the President of the Supreme Court, Dr. Jorge Subero Isa. The US government seeks that the Dominican government …

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Minister of the Armed Forces, Admiral Ruben Paulino Alvarez said that the US is assisting the Dominican military to install three intelligence detachments with personnel trained by US-Mexico border units to detect the contraband of illicit drugs and fire arms. The units will be known as Frontier Intelligence Operations.

Former president of the Chamber of Deputies and president of a Santiago finance firm and of a renown law firm in Santiago, Dr. Edilio Vargas Ortega committed suicide last Friday in Santiago. Vargas Ortega, deputy for the Partido Reformista Social Cristiano in 19986-1990 had also been a former administrator of Molinos Dominicanos, the state flour …

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Laureano Guerrero denied that he has resigned from his post as director of the Comisión Nacional de Espectáculos Públicos. He told the Listín Diario he had not resigned, nor had plans to resign. Hoy reported that Laureano Guerrero had resigned on Friday after the government instructed him to revoke his decision to ban cable TV …

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The general manager of the Commonwealth Development Corporation (CDC), the British international development financial corporation, Paul Jobson visited Santo Domingo last week and in an interview with the Listín Diario explained the scope of CDC activities in the country. The CDC has invested US$74 million in the DR and will at year’s end have invested …

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The Cadena de Noticias (CDN), Channel 37 has high expectations that the Orlando Martínez murder scase will polarize national attention. The case opens Thursday and will be televised by the news network. The Dominican CNN-type network will be giving the case of the journalist against former military the same coverage granted to the case of …

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The Miami Herald reported on 13 October that US fireman Frederick Golba had said there were hundreds of dead buried under mud slides in the southwestern town of Mesopotamia in San Juan de la Maguana province, and speculated that the government was covering up. But after three weeks of seeking to find these, Hoy newspaper …

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The governor of the Las Americas International Airport, Jose Guillermo Sued forecasts that a record number of expat Dominicans will visit their family this year. The increase in the number of travelers will come from those that will travel to see damages caused by Hurricane Georges and bring assistance for friends and relatives. Sued told …

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Dominican Sammy Sosa, of the Chicago Cubs received the most votes in the All Stars vote called by the Associated Press. He received 187 votes, five more than Mark McGwire.