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Teams from thirty-five countries will compete for the World?s Juvenile Bowling Championship starting Saturday, October 28. The competition will be staged at Santo Domingo?s Sebelen Bowling Center. President Hipolito Mejia will bowl the first frame. Teenage competitors from Ireland and Qatar were the first to arrive, and most other teams are expected today. The event, …

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In the October 26 edition of DR1, under the headline, ?Movement toward Pan Am Games detected, but disputes reign,? the figure of DR$16 million was converted as US$97,000,000. In fact, it should have been US$970,000.  In the October 25 edition of DR1, under the headline, ?Local company included in Forbes Magazine list,? the term ?small …

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The influential Archbishop of Santo Domingo appealed to the government not to burden poor people any further with new taxes. Speaking at a conclave of some 20 Latin American bishops convened in Santo Domingo to launch the ?new evangelization of the Americas,? Nicolas de Jesus Cardinal Lopez Rodriguez said that he had ?no right to …

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Two important Dominican-Haitian meetings will take place in Santo Domingo today. Former Venezuelan President, Carlos Andres Perez, will lead discussions between rival Haitian political factions. Since the parliamentary elections held last May 21, Haiti has been wracked by political turmoil, with the opposition charging fraud against the Lavalas family, which was reported to have gained …

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Though Speaker Rafaela Alburquerque had announced it as imminent, the Chamber of Deputies was unable to approve the long-pending bill on Hydrocarbons and Fossil Fuels yesterday. A heated debate over the bill?s new amendments, which were proposed by a bi-cameral committee, led to a walk out by the PLD Party?s deputies. When the PRSC Party …

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The introduction of daylight savings time, scheduled for next Sunday, will be advanced by 22 hours, due to a modification of the original decree issued last month. The change responds to concerns expressed by local telecommunications companies about the difficulties of adapting their computers precisely at the stroke of midnight. Accordingly, a new presidential decree …

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A noisy gathering of thousands of public school teachers ended inconclusively with their organization?s president being shouted down, and a call for an end to the ?honeymoon? with the Mejia administration. Olympia Gonzalez, President of the Dominican Teachers Association (ADP) called for an increase in teachers? salaries. While all present were in accord with her …

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Police arrested a Cuban national, Simon Mu?oz Diaz, and two Dominican women, Celeste Polanco Castillo and Ana Yocasta Sanchez, in a raid on a house in an undisclosed neighborhood of the capital yesterday, and charged them with the production and distribution of counterfeit currency. A search of the premises produced 173 thousand peso notes which …

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The photo of an interminable traffic jam appears on the front page of today?s El Siglo above the caption, ?Transit on 27th of February Avenue in Disarray due to Inoperative Traffic Lights.? The city?s longest East-West thoroughfare, named for the country?s date of independence, is reported to have few functioning traffic lights. Certain stretches of …

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