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The government announced that the new 100 megawatt Siemens turbogas power generator installed in the Haina power generator plant park will enter into service this week. With the Siemens plant, the state has on line six new units purchased by Fernández government to complement energy purchased by private power generators installed during the Balaguer administration. …

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The Dominican Republic imported fuel products for US$4,770 million during the period 1990-1997. The total was 16% of the total imports for the period, according to statistics from the Dominican Petroleum Refinery, Falconbridge and the Dominican Electricity Corporation (CDE), the three largest importers. Total imports for the period were US$29,756.2 million, according to statistics of …

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The free trade agreement the Dominican Republic will sign with the Caribbean will not include the telecommunications sector, according to services sector negotiator Federico Cuello. Cuello explained that the negotiators agreed to incorporate the services sector when the individual nations pass telecommunication reform bills. The DR recently passed a modern telecommunications bill. Chief negotiator for …

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The Minister of Public Health Altagracia Guzmán said that a disciplinary court will decide the sanctions to be applied to the medical team that attended Jafreisy Cruceta King, who required an amputation of her right hand after an antibiotic was incorrectly applied at the Hospital Materno Infantil San Lorenzo de los Mina. The court is …

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Former colonel, Venezuelan presidential candidate Hugo Chávez is scheduled to travel to the Dominican Republic next week to attend a seminar on Constitutional Reform organized by the government department in charge of the modernization of the Dominican state. He is one of special guests coming from Latin America and the Caribbean. Others are Luis Verde …

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The director of the Dirección General de Impuestos Internos (DGII), Juan Hernández said that despite the success of his department in increasing the fiscal tax revenues, the amounts are not sufficient to compensate for the loss of income forecast for when the government reduces import duties. The government wants to reduce import duties, but increase …

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The Central Bank announced that new dollar rate is RD$15.34, up from RD$15.32 last week. Dollars were being sold for RD$15.42-RD$15.45 in commercial banks and exchange houses and purchased from RD$15 to RD$15.20, in these. Citibank, Scotiabank and Popular were purchasing dollars at RD$15.20. BHD was offering RD$15. Baninter, Progreso and Bancredito were offering RD$15.15.

A report in the Listín Diario indicates that the Instituto Dominicano de Seguros Sociales (IDSS) has an excess of 1,940 physicians on their payroll. International indicators call for eight physicians per 10,000 insured persons. A recent study carried out by the Unidad de Modernización y Desarrollo Institutional, the IDSS unit that seeks to modernize the …

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The Fernández administration rejected a proposal of the Partido Revolucionario Dominicano (PRD) that would condition the reaching of an agreement on the national agenda to the participation of PRD legislators in the preparing of the Budget Bill for 1999. Technical Secretary of the Presidency Temístocles Montás said that the PRD cannot impose itself on what …

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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 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 will …

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