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Air Santo Domingo announced the start of its first international flights. The airline will fly three times a week to Port-au-Prince, Haiti as of this coming Wednesday. Fernando Rainieri, president of the airline, said that as the demand increases, the airline plans to increase flights to a daily frequency. The flights will depart from the …

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A Dominican resident in New York for the past 15 years has launched the Constriction Belt, a device that intends to compete with Viagra, the Pfizer drug. The Constriction Belt is being marketed as producing the same results sought with Viagra, without the negative side effects. The inventor, 26-year old Ramon Jaquez says it can …

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The visiting mission of the Panamerican Olympic Organization concluded that Santo Domingo has all necessary to organize the Pan American Sports Games in year 2003. The presidents of the Olympic Committees of Uruguay, Honduras and Cuba, Julio Cesar Maglione, Julio Villalta and José Ramón Fernández, respectively were in Santo Domingo last week to evaluate the …

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Puerto Rican Victor Vargas won the first place in the Primera Carrera Puntuable del Campeonato Presidente de Jet Ski, the most important jet ski competition held annually in the DR. The championship will continue on 13 September at the Avenida del Puerto, along the Ozama and Isabela rivers. The finals will be held in Boca …

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Sociologist Carlos Dore Cabral, one of the leading political strategists of the government, and the closest in this government to a "house spokesman", said yesterday that President Leonel Fernández has not rejected the possibility of running for President in year 2000. Re-election is banned by the Constitution. Dore said that the President, in his recent …

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The Listín Diario reported that it has heard from reputable sources that the dissident president of the Chamber of Deputies Hector Rafael Peguero Méndez has said he will convene the Chamber back to work on Tuesday, a week after President Leonel Fernández requested that congressmen get back to work. Among the bills that will be …

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Representatives of the government and the leadership of the three principal political parties of the country, as well as the civil society, will meet next week to discuss the national agenda proposed by President Leonel Fernández Reyna. The Catholic Church will mediate the meeting. El Siglo reported that Monsignor Agripino Núñez Collado met at Casa …

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The Ministry of Foreign Relations has confirmed that the President of Cuba, Fidel Castro will visit the DR for five days. The Cuban statesman will participate as an observer in the meetings of the Cariforum, that groups Caribbean members signatories of the Lomé Convention. The chiefs of state of the English-speaking Caribbean, CARICOM nations, will …

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The Fernández administration has begun the construction of the Autovía del Este, an ambitious project that will communicate San Cristóbal province with San Pedro de Macorís by way of a major highway, as reported in El Siglo newspaper. Ministry of Public Works contractors have already completed clearing up several kilometers of the areas through which …

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The Oficina Técnica de Transporte Terrestre, the government department that regulates the public transport vehicles in circulation, has announced it will now be formalizing the circulation of the so-called motorcycle taxis, or "motoconchos". It is estimated that over 1,000 motoconchistas age 18 to 30 that offer their services to over 300,000 persons a day. The …

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