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Hundreds of boxes of cigars were confiscated n a series of raids carried out in a dozen gift shops in Boca Chica and Santo Domingo?s Colonial Zone yesterday by tax agents in collaboration with police. The shops were allegedly selling locally made cigars in boxes marked ?Romeo & Juliet,? ?Monte Cristo,? and ?Arturo Fuente,? well-known …

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The ex-Director of Civil Defense, Army General Jose Antonio de los Santos Sanchez has been asked to explain the origins of his assets. The general, who submitted a financial statement last August, as required by law, raised eyebrows when he reported a net worth in excess of DR$23 million (around US$1.4 million). ?No one is …

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The Santo Domingo City Manager (Secretario General del Ayuntamiento del Distrito Nacional), Luis Jose Chavez, met with Santo Doming District Attorney, Maximo Aristy Caraballo, and National Chief Of Police, Pedro De Jesus Candelier, to plan the measures they will take to recuperate various green areas of the capital. City Hall is making an inventory of …

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The head of the organizing committee for the 2003 Pan Am Games revealed that he informed the Pan American Sports Organization (ADEPA) that the DR would forego its right to host the games if it failed to fulfill the conditions it accepted at last weeks meeting in Colorado Springs. According to Jose Juaquin Puello, Dominican …

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The Dominican embassy in Port-au-Prince has received requests for political asylum from two police officers implicated in the recent, unsuccessful coup d?etat against the government of President Rene Preval. The pair has taken temporary refuge in the embassy awaiting the official governmental response. This brings to nine, the total number of Haitian police officers who …

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The District Attorney of Santo Domingo, Maximo Aristy Caraballo, stated that he has ?a space to lodge ex-officials [of the Fernandez administration] who refuse to respond to subpoenas.? Former Secretary to the President, Alexandrina German, has refused to appear before the special anti-corruption prosecutor to answer questions about alleged improprieties in the awarding of U.S. …

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A high ranking official of the Santo Domingo Autonomous University (UASD) revealed that ?irregularities? have been detected in the granting of degrees. Ramon Valerio, Secretary of the UASD Corporation, said that the Registrar?s Office suspects that degrees have been presented to some students who have not earned them. Valerio refused to provide further details, but …

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Just six days remain before Dominicans are scheduled to turn their clocks back by one hour, but ?differences and confusions among citizens and sectors? are sufficiently pronounced to justify the lead headline in today?s Listin Diario. The daylight savings measure, promulgated by President Hipolito Mejia last September 26, is scheduled to take effect next Sunday …

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A high level team returned from Saturday?s meeting in Colorado Springs with an amber light for the Pan Am Games. Cesar Cede?o, the Minister of Sports and Physical Education, Miguel Vargas, Minister of Public Works, Jose Joaquin Puello, head of the Dominican Olympic Committee, and Mario Vasquez Ra?a, head of the Organizing Committee for the …

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