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A new online store is making it possible for persons living abroad to send appliances, food items and even flowers to persons they care for in the DR. This is coming in especially handle with St. Valentine’s Day coming up. The online store, lacentralexpress.com will be promoted regularly on dr1.com to daily news subscribers and …

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Body Shop, the biggest gym in the DR, announces the start of its birthing lessons for Friday, 11 February. 549-6620. The class instructors are certified by the International Childbirth Education Association Inc. (ICEA).

The Luther College Jazz Band announces an 8:30 pm presentation at the Instituto Cultural Dominico-Americano in Santo Domingo. On Tuesday, the group travels to the Teatro de La Vega for a presentation, then moving on Wednesday to perform at the Hotel Puerto Plata Beach and Thursday at Casa Marina Reef in Sosua. Dominican Tony Guzmán …

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"Men at Work," the popular Australian rock group is coming to the DR in February. They will present a concert at the Salon La Fiesta of the Renaissance Jaragua Hotel on 6 February. The group won the 1982 Grammy Award. They are known for their hits: "Who can it be now?" "Down under," Be good, …

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The Estrellas Orientales pushed the finals to the end, winning the fourth and fifth game over the weekend, losing in a 10th inning on Sunday. The Dominican Winter Baseball Series was decided in an extra inning at the Cibao Stadium, with the Aguilas winning a dramatic game, 3-2. In the ninth inning, the Estrellas Orientales …

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The Dirección General de Impuestos Internos announced that it has increased the monthly salary level that is exempt from income taxes to RD$8,566. This is up from the RD$8,150 ceiling of last year. The level is adjusted annually for inflation. The measure is retroactive to 1 January 2000. Those making up to RD$102,792 a year …

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In his State of the Union Address of yesterday, his longest and his last, President Bill Clinton urged the United States "to move forward on trade". " open markets and rules-based trade are the best engines we know for raising living standards, reducing global poverty and environmental destruction, and assuring the free flow of ideas," …

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Dominican drug control authorities expressed their concern that the MDMA semi-synthetic pill, known as Ecstasy or Extasy, is being introduced into the DR. Rear Admiral Luis Alberto Humeau Hidalgo, president of the National Drug Control Department and Vinicio Marino Castillo, president of the National Drug Council, announced that a prevention campaign will soon start to …

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The Chamber of Accounts, as reported in Hoy newspaper, suggested that the Senate suspend the study of the State Sugar Council (CEA) land sale contracts until they complete an ongoing in-depth investigation. Newspaper reporters were told by congressional sectors that the Cámara de Cuentas has alerted congressmen that serious irregularities have been found in the …

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Several public employees did not collect on the 25th, the government pay day, a rare happening. The Treasury said that it had requested that government institutions send their payroll lists by the middle of the month, but that several institutions did not send these in on time. The government says that all checks have been …

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