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In an interview in yesterday’s edition of the afternoon daily Ultima Hora, Migration Director-General D?az asserted that the DR is no longer the "bridge" for undocumented aliens seeking to go to the U.S. that it once was. He attributed the change to "harsh" measures adopted by the Fern?ndez Government. He said that under prior governments, …

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Santo Domingo’s Mayor, Juan de Dios ("Johnny") Ventura, left yesterday with a delegation from the municipal government to tour Europe and Israel seeking aid for the capital city’s plans and programs. In Italy he will visit Milan to talk with city officials there about the garbage collection services and technologies they utilize, and in Rome …

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President Fern?ndez yesterday appointed a new DR Ambassador to Colombia. Architect Manuel Del Monte Urraca became the new ambassador under Decree 99-99. Mr. Del Monte Urraca has been Director of the Office of Cultural Patrimony over the last two years.

Today President Fern?ndez will officially present the Organizing Committee for the Pan American Games ("PanAm Games") to be held in Santo Domingo in the year 2003. The Committee President is Dr. Jos? Joaqu?n Puello Herrera, President of the Dominican Olympic Committee (COD), with Diandino Pe?a serving as Executive Vice President and Luis?n Mej?a Oveido as …

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Representatives of the three major political parties – the Dominican Liberation Party (PLD), Dominican Revolutionary Party (PRD) and the Reformist-Social Christian Party (PRSC) – met yesterday with President Leonel Fern?ndez at the National Palace and agreed on several agenda items for the political dialogue convened by the President. According to Monsignor Agripino N??ez Collado, the …

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The Technical Secretary of the Presidency, Tem?stocles Mont?s, has written the President of the Senate, Ram?n Alburquerque (PRD-Monte Plata), asking the Senate to reconsider some of the provisions it included in its first reading approval of the Export Reactivation and Promotion bill. Mont?s says that President Fern?ndez could not accept current provisions regarding the compensation …

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The Director-General of the Metropolitan Transit Authority (AMET), Hamlet Hermann, announced yesterday the appointment of Lieutenant Colonel Manuel Santamar?a Fondeur as the Commandant of the Metropolitan Police. Santamar?a, who had been number two at the Metropolitan Police, replaced Colonel Bienvenido D’Oleo Moreta, who is returning to the National Police (PN) to be its new head …

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Just hours after taking office as Santiago Province’s new Governor, Ram?n Ventura Camejo roundly criticized the existing national law on provincial governments as "obsolete." Ventura Camejo was appointed by President Fern?ndez as a replacement for industrialist Marcelo Berm?dez, who resigned in December. Ventura Camejo said that the existing law is badly out-of-date and needs to …

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President Fern?ndez yesterday created a new permanent commission of experts to examine all the various laws, decrees, regulations, resolutions, manuals, instructions, etc. relevant to the administration of the national government with a view to rationalizing, updating and amending them to create a more modernized public administration. Decree 98-99 names Dr. Crist?bal G?mez Yang?ela to head …

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During a luncheon discussion with the news daily El Siglo, Foreign Minister Eduardo Latorre revealed yesterday that the Chancellery, the Directorate-General of Migration and the Interior and Police Ministry will soon deliver to President Fern?ndez their proposed draft of a new immigration law. The three agencies have been charged by the President with formulating a …

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