1998 – Page 79

In two consecutive sessions, and with the support of 69 deputies from the Partido Reformista Social Cristiano, the Partido de la Liberación Dominicana and Partido Revolucionario Dominicano dissident members, the Chamber of Deputies passed the bill that rules the Judicial Career and the National School of the Magistracy. The judge career law limits to four …

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The director of the Customs Department, Miguel Cocco said that the government seeks the congressional passing of a bill that would reduce import tariffs to a maximum 20%, down from 35% at present. The tariffs would then be 20%, 15%, 8% and 3%, with a gradual reduction taking place from 1998 through year 2005. Certain …

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The government will remodel the Darío Contreras Hospital, the principal trauma and orthopedics center in the country. Some RD$50 million will be invested in the renovation of administrative and surgery areas. A heliport will be built and the number of beds expanded from 265 to 500. The announcement was made by the center’s director, Dr. …

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The counselor of the Embassy of Argentina said that during the first four months of the year some 17,000 Argentineans visited the Punta Cana tourist destination, along the East Coast of the DR. He said that a tour of seven days from Argentina to the DR costs US$1,000 to US$1,500, of which US$500 pays for …

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The Dominican Olympic Committee president, Dr. José Joaquín Puello, reportedly told José Ramón Fernández, vice president of the Panamerican Sports Organization, and president of the Olympic Committee of Cuba, that the Dominican government is contemplating purchasing a six hectares lot that is across the street from the Juan Pablo Duarte Olympic Center (Máximo Gómez Ave., …

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Cardinal Nicolás de Jesús López Rodríguez and Monsignor Girolamo Prigione, a special envoy of the Pope John Paul II, will hold mass today at the Cathedral of Santo Domingo, the first in the New World, as part of events held to commemorate the 500th anniversary of the capital city of the Dominican Republic. The mass …

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The Dominican government is assigning a force of 700 agents to ensure the safety of Cuban President Fidel Castro who will be visiting from 20-25 August. The security force will use airplanes, helicopters, and speed boats in addition to ground transport vehicles. Fidel Castro is coming to attend the Caribbean Summit and Cariforum meetings that …

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El Siglo newspaper reports that the government is building a "green frontier" of pine trees along the frontier with Haiti. The newspaper published a front page photograph showing a dense pine tree forest on one side of the Dominican side of the frontier-dividing highway and brush on the Haitian side. The green frontier is part …

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The president of the Senate, Amable Aristy Castro (PRSC-La Altagracia), requested that President Leonel Fernández and the Partido de la Liberación Dominicana (PLD) be brave and modify now the Constitution to re-establish presidential re-election. The PRD, which will be majority in both houses come 16 August when the new Congress is sworn in, opposes the …

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The government will spend RD$100 million to remodel the Robert Reid Cabral Children’s Hospital. Rafael Serulle, director of the Oficina de Ingenieros Supervisores de las Obras del Estado, the government office that supervises the construction of public works, told the press that if the government were to build a new children’s hospital, it would cost …

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