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Hotel Grand Dominicus is the newest hotel to open in La Romana. The hotel was built by the Italian group of investors head by Bruno Colombo, of Viages del Ventaglio. It has 448 rooms, three restaurants, three tennis courts, an Italian soccer court, amphitheater, and areas for water sports. The hotel is located adjacent to …

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Dominican art collector Juan Jos? Bellapart inaugurated over the weekend his Museo Bellapart, where he exhibits an important part of his art collection, one of the best, if not the best in the DR. The collection on exhibition earlier has toured Europe, with exhibitions in Paris, Madrid, Barcelona, Rome, Palma de Mallorca prior to its …

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The ambassador of France in the Dominican Republic, engineer Francois Javier Deniau said that the government of France has decided to include the Dominican Republic in their "priority cooperation zone", which will benefit Dominicans. France has been assisting the DR with the renovation of its judiciary. Key French justice officials are expected in Santo Domingo …

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Cardinal Nicol?s de Jes?s L?pez Rodr?guez urged on Sunday that Dominican politicians put aside their own personal agendas and focus on subjects that are on the national agenda. He urged politicians to put behind them their "political mischief." He said that what the parties should be talking about are the national problems and not their …

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President Leonel Fern?ndez will participate in the Central American summit meeting with US President Bill Clinton in Guatemala this coming 11 March. Dominicans and Central Americans are lobbying together to seek a freeze or reduction of the deportations of Dominicans who have been arrested for committing crimes in the US and are returned to the …

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Local press is speculating that former President Joaqu?n Balaguer could return to the DR on Thursday, 25 February. He would arrive on a private jet into the smaller Herrera International Airport, in the city of Santo Domingo. He had been scheduled to return last week, but because of medical check-ups with ophthalmologist Salomon Melgen, he …

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The second round of the Universidad Aut?noma de Santo Domingo, the state-funded university, will take place today. The university elections are highly politicized, with the major political parties supporting the individual candidates, for the most part unknown to the national society prior to their running for rector of the largest Dominican university. The contenders all …

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The State Sugar Council (CEA) urged Dominicans to cut sugar cane, while announcing it is importing 12,000 Haitian cutters. Cutters make about RD$3,000 a month (slightly above minimum wage) for their hard labor, and the money’s earned are only attractive to Haitians that have less options in their own country. Increasing the pay is controversial, …

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The District Attorney’s office has announced the operation of its Computer Center (Centro de Inform?tica), whereby all judicial cases are being computerized. A report in El Siglo newspaper indicates that every day 1,000 cases are entered into the system and automatically raffled out to the courts and chambers. The report indicates one has only to …

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The Direcci?n General de Impuestos Internos, the national tax office, said that it will step up efforts to detect tax evasion this year. It announced it will investigate 5,500 firms of 20,000 that are registered in the DR. Four thousand of these will be audited for showing no accounting movement in recent years, and another …

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