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Leading Santiago de los Caballeros business, religious and neighborhood groups formed a board to support the work of the Cibao Central Police Command. The new board is presided by Alberto Yunen, who is also president of the Association of Industries of the Northern Region (AIREN). The board will seek funds to assist the police in …

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Smith Enron donated a power plant to the Northwest Regional Command of the National Police. Kevin Manning, general manager of the Smith Enron power generator (installed capacity 185 megawatts) that is located in Puerto Plata handed the 27 kilo plant Kevin Manning to zonal regional police chief Vinicio Hernandez. He stressed that the contribution will …

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Police agents modeled the new National Police uniforms that were designed by Oscar de la Renta. Police Chief Pedro Jesus Candelier on a trip to New York City made the request directly to the famous designer. Oscar de la Renta replaced with blue hues and white the police uniforms that dated back to 1936. Privates …

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The National Police arrested the Dutchman who is accused of being the head of a major European-Dominican prostitution operation. Francisco Antonio Maas (Otti Maas) had been filmed by a Spanish news operation, El Mundo, when negotiating women in Santo Domingo with whom he thought was a potential buyer (but were really undercover journalists). The evidence …

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The separated Siamese twins Jasmin and Nasmil Campusano Frías returned to DR last week after successful operation in the St. Joseph Hospital in New Jersey. The girls were born 25 May 1999 in San Cristóbal, joined at the abdomen and sharing a liver. The operation to separate them lasted five hours and cost US$1 million, …

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Boxers from 13 countries are participating in the Copa Independencia de Boxeo that opens 28 February at the Palacio de Deportes of Santiago de los Caballeros. President of the organizing committee, Marino Collante said that boxers have arrived from Brazil, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Guatemala, Colombia, for the event. The event will last through 3 March …

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Venezuelan cyclist Hussein Monsalve won the 6th stage of the Vuelta Ciclística Independencia Nacional, a major cycling event in the Caribbean. He finished first on the 160 kms. Santiago-La Cumbre-Puerto Plata-Imbert-Navarrete-Mao distance. On Saturday, Wendy Cruz won the 7th stage circling the Monumento a los Héroes in Santiago. On Sunday, Gustavo Carrillo, of the Asociación …

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President Leonel Fernández was present at the groundbreaking ceremony to start construction of the 300 megawatt Cogentrix Energy power facility in southeastern San Pedro de Macorís. The project will utilize oil-fired, combined cycle technology and has an expected total cost of around US$300 million. Cogentrix, a US power plant developer headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina …

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The presidential candidate of the PRD, Hipólito Mejía defended his colorful language. He said it helps him better communicate with the Dominican people. "I want to be Hipólito, the farmer who knows the difficulties the people who work the fields have to go through, whose family still resides in the countryside, and whose activities have …

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Engineer Daniel Gómez, general coordinator of international loans of the Ministry of Public Works, said that government will be issuing a RD$15 million check to Mera Muñoz Fondeur, the contractor of the expansion works of the Las Americas Highway. Truckers and laborers stopped work demanding payment of RD$10 million owed to them for six months …

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