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Public Health Minister Altagracia Guzm?n Marcelino has signed a health cooperation agreement with her counterpart from Cuba, Carlos Dotres. The agreement provides for Cuban assistance to the DR in primary health care delivery, hospital management, salvage of medical equipment and in technology transfer. The pact was signed against the backdrop of a meeting of Health …

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150 students participating in the school breakfast program in San Francisco de Macor?s were sickened yesterday by contaminated milk. Dozens were hospitalized with severe dehydration due to vomiting and diarrhea before health officials traced the common thread between the cases. Officials are now trying to determine the source of the milk and how it may …

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International recording star Gloria Estefan is ruffling many feathers among the organizers and the sponsor of the Cassandra Awards, the DR’s equivalent of the Grammy Awards for musical acts. The awards, named for legendary Dominican performer Cassandra Damir?n, are given each year by the DR’s Asociaci?n de Cronistas de Arte (Association of Art Reporters — …

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A special commission designated to start the preparation process for the 2003 Pan American (PanAm) Games delivered their initial report to President Fern?ndez at the National Palace yesterday. A delegation from the special commission formed by the Dominican Olympic Committee (COD) was led by COD President Dr. Jos? Joaqu?n Puello and COD Secretary-General Luis?n Mej?a …

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The Licey Tigers won Game Eight of the Winter Professional Baseball Tournament’s Final Series, making tonight’s match the one that determines the champion. Licey beat the Escogido Lions 4-2 after coming from behind to tie the Lions in the seventh inning, and then sealing Escogido’s fate with two runs in the eighth. The last game …

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Accompanied by the Interior and Police Minister and a heavy security contingent, Senator Amable Aristy Castro [Reformista Party (PRSC) – Altagracia] yesterday was led into the headquarters of the Dominican Municipal League (LMD) and sworn into office in a brief, impromptu ceremony. Interior Minister Ram?n Andr?s Blanco Fern?ndez did the swearing in, proclaiming, on his …

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Reactions to the events surrounding the LMD fight have come from all quarters within the last 48 hours, in large part due to the shootings on Monday and the Tuesday deployment of armed troops. On the international side, Socialist International (SI), the international political organization to which PRD is affiliated and of which deceased PRD …

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The Senate yesterday adopted a resolution demanding that Interior and Police Minister Blanco Fern?ndez appear in its chambers next Tuesday, February 2nd, at 3:00 pm to answer its questions about the "arbitrary and abusive" closing of the LMD facilities and impeding the access thereto of Senators. The resolution was proposed by Senator Milton Ray Guevarra …

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The Executive Vice President of the National Association of Hotels and Restaurants (ASONAHORES), Arturo Villanueva, worried aloud yesterday that the widely reported LMD struggle and associated scenes of violence and disorder might harm the DR’s tourism industry this winter and spring. In a presentation yesterday of the 1998 results for the sector, Villanueva reminded politicians …

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The famous Orlando Mart?nez case resumes today in the Tenth Penal Court of the National District under the direction of Judge Katia Miguelina Jim?nez Mart?nez. The trial concerns the 1975 murder of journalist Orlando Mart?nez Howley. Mart?nez had been critical of the government of then-President Dr. Joaqu?n Balaguer, but it is believed that he may …

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