1999 – Page 70

President Leonel Fernández said it is not true that he will take a three-month license from his duties as reported by Hoy newspaper yesterday. The President of the Republic supposedly was to take the time off to campaign for Partido de la Liberación Dominicana (PLD) presidential candidate, Danilo Medina. Medina was his campaign manager when …

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Speaking during a visit to Puerto Plata, President Leonel Fernández said that his government will not increase taxes from now to his government’s end in August 2000. "This government has been able to increase collections without increasing taxes," said the President. He was in Puerto Plata to inaugurate several works built by the government. The …

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The Supreme Court of Justice ordered that the Departmento de Inspectoría Judicial carry out an in depth investigation to locate the dossier of the case regarding corruption in office against former President Salvador Jorge Blanco. The SCJ says that when the dossier is located it will issue a statement on the status of the case. …

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El Siglo newspaper reports on the hunger strike started by near 50 contractors that have not been paid on time by the government. They are demanding the fulfillment of the agreement signed with the government last April in which the government committed to clear the debt of US$2,000 million in quotas of RD$20 million a …

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District Attorney Francisco Domínguez Brito warned that foreigners that are arrested and convicted on charges of prostitution, rape of minors, trafficking with weapons, drugs, white slavery and other crimes will have to serve their sentence terms in the DR. He said that while in the past it was a common practice to deport these persons, …

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Sammy Sosa batted his 59th home run yesterday. He has had 88 turns at bat, and has 22 games to go. He is batting for .301, with 127 runs batted in. He hits a home run every 9.22 turns. He has 332 home runs for life. Sports analysts say if he maintains the same pace, …

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Banco Popular Dominicano, one of the leading Dominican financial groups, announced it has purchased El Caribe newspaper. The newspaper was the leading Dominican daily from the 60s to the late 70s, to the point that "Caribe" was synonymous with newspaper. Afterwards, it fell behind with the publishing of more modern newspapers, such as the Listín …

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El Siglo newspaper and the Listín Diario carried headlines highlighting that the dossier with the case on former President Salvador Jorge Blanco who was sentenced for corruption during office, and later appealed, is missing. Jorge Blanco was President of the Dominican Republic from 1982-1986. He was taken to trial by lawyer Marino Vinicio Castillo, during …

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Karl Huber, president of Empresa AES Distribuidora del Este, one of the two companies in charge of the privatization of power supply in the DR, said that long power outages will continue until the company finishes the repair and maintenance of all distribution lines. He said these works will take "several months."

Work is advancing on the Avenida Circunvalación de Santiago, an expressway that will circumvent the centrally located city of Santiago. Once completed, the new expressway will decongestion the city and considerably reduce travel time to cities in the north and south. The government is investing RD$305 million in the eight kilometer expressway that will connect …

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