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President Hipólito Mejía was scheduled to travel on Wednesday, 29 November to Mexico to attend the inaugural of President-elect Vicente Fox. He will make a stopover in Miami. Fox will be sworn in on Friday, 1 December in Mexico City. Mejía is scheduled to travel with First Lady Rosa de Mejía, Minister of Foreign Relations …

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The government has begun the construction of a highway that would link the Port of Haina with the Duarte Highway that heads north. Construction works have started at Km. 28 of the Duarte and residents of Pedro Brand complained bulldozers destroyed their plantings and their water supply was disconnected. The Oficina de Ingenieros Supervisores de …

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Corredor Naco is the new bus route that will soon service the Polígono Central of Santo Domingo, the booming commercial and residential area of the capital city. The new bus route will have stops near the Plaza de la Salud, Ministry of Public Works, Armed Forces Hospital, Juan Pablo Duarte Olympic Center, Quisqueya Ballpark, Plaza …

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The Police impeded from the start a march to the National Palace of a group that was protesting the new tax bills package of the government. The march began yesterday around 10 am at Parque Independencia and was to head up to Calle 30 de Marzo to the National Palace when it was forcibly disrupted …

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A Hoy newspaper-Hamilton Staff poll showed that Vice President Milagros Ortíz Bosch (PRD), former Vice President Jacinto Peynado (PRSC) and former Vice President Jaime David Fernández Mirabal (PLD) would be the most voted presidential candidate choices in the 2004 election. Interestingly, Jaime David Fernández Mirabal, whom the PLD party discarded in favor of then Secretary …

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Father Jorge Cela, executive director of the Center for Social Studies Juan Montalvo, said that it is an inadmissible attitude and shameful that the government feels it had to pay delinquents so that these abstain from protesting against the government. He was commenting on President Leonel Fernández’s justification of the PEME program that made pay …

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The president of the American Chamber of Commerce, Andrés Aybar warned that the 2% advance on the payment of income taxes for businesses will have an inflationary effect on the economy. He said similar measures have been discarded as economic policy in South American countries. If the government stands on its position, he said that …

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