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49-year old Maria Guerrero S?nchez has said she will not desist in her crusade to jail her recent assailant. On 3 February, returning to her home with her three year old grandson in the Jose Contreras apartment complex in Santo Domingo, she was assaulted by a young man, who kidnapped and raped her abandoning her …

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The new chief of the Police, Major General Pedro de Jesus Candelier Tejada is intent of eliminating the practice of policemen serving as guards, chauffeurs of private companies and individuals. Thousands of policemen didn’t turn up to collect their pay checks, preferring their jobs in the private sector to the about RD$1,800 a month Police …

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The Sammy Sosa Foundation will organize a 12 November benefit golf tournament in the DR. He announced recently that Michael Jordan, of Chicago Bulls fame, has confirmed his participation. Several other renown sports stars have also been invited to the fund-raising event.

The Ministry of Public Health alerted all to not purchase food products from city vendors that do not port ID authorizing them to sell food on city streets. The ID is being issued by the Environmental Health Department of the Ministry of Public Health after the undergo courses in food handling hygiene, explained Felix Roa, …

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Spin management, backpedaling, dispelling false rumors or just an honest difference of interpretation? Dominicans are left wondering after the round of pronouncements made yesterday by Dominican Revolutionary Party (PRD) leaders about the Central Election Board (JCE) and its President, Dr. Manuel Ram?n Morel Cerda. On Wednesday evening the political dialogue between the three main political …

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Foreign Minister Eduardo Latorre confirmed yesterday that 19 regional heads of state will attend the second summit of the Association of Caribbean States (ACS), to be held in Santo Domingo April 16-18. Among those attending will be Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo, Venezuelan President Hugo Ch?vez, Colombian President Andr?s Pastrana, and Cuban leader Fidel Castro. Latorre …

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A new study to be published next week finds that the DR’s forest cover is much greater than previously thought. Until now, it was thought that the nation’s forests only covered 11% of its territory. In a study to be published next week in the National Botanical Garden’s scientific magazine "Moscosoa," the Agriculture Ministry’s Natural …

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The designer of the new boulevard on 27 de Febrero Avenue, architect Danny P?rez, plans to summit to the Public Works Ministry and the Technical Secretariat of the Presidency plans and designs for an idea he has to save the Haina River from environmental degradation: the creation of a "Haina Ecological Mirador Park." The concept …

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According to information provided by the Geneva-based International Telecommunications Union (ITU), the United Nations specialized agency that handles all telecommunications issues, the DR already has a "teledensity" (number of phone lines per 100 inhabitants) of 9.4, up from 4.2 just nine years before. During that period some 400,000 new phone lines were brought into service …

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After weeks of trading rhetorical jabs at each other through the media and a series of selective strikes by doctors in public hospitals, the Public Health Minister and the directorate of the Dominican Medical Association (AMD) finally negotiated face-to-face again yesterday. Minister Altagracia Guzm?n Marcelino paid a surprise visit to AMD’s offices to try to …

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