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The National Police closed a clandestine consulate that operated in Los Girasoles, in Santiago. News reports in El Siglo and the Listin Diario say that four individuals were arrested. Their main clients were Dominicans who had been deported from the US and wanted to return to the US under another identity. At the clandestine consulate, …

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Antonio Reynoso, the director general of the Oficina Técnica de Transporte Terrestre, the office in charge of regulating transport in the DR, announced the provisional appointment of Nelson Estevez to the OTTT Santiago regional office. The incumbent, Guillermo López, who had just been appointed by the present government, was temporarily relieved by the post after …

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The official Dominican delegation to the Sydney Olympic Games leaves today. The DR will compete in five sports — judo, boxing, track & field, weightlifting and swimming. The official delegation is as follows: Jose Joaquin Puello, president of the Dominican Olympic Committee Luisín Mejía, Secretary of the Dominican Olympic Committee Hector Duval, head of the …

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Isabel Aracena (Isha), the well known child TV star, announced she will be back on TV again starting 18 September. Isha and her husband-producer Angel Puello will produce a Monday to Friday variety show, "Buenas Tardes, Isha," on Channel 4 from 4 to 6 pm. Nelson Marte, director of Channel 4 made the announcement. Isha …

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President Hipólito Mejía signed yesterday a cooperation memorandum for the donation of US$2.5 million with United States government during his visit to New York for the Summit of the Millennium. The agreement was signed by the President and Andrew Cuomo, Secretary of the US Housing and Urban Development Department. The money will be used to …

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Hoy newspaper journalist, Asela Lamarche, who traveled to New York City to cover President Hipólito Mejía’s visit, asked President Mejía what he didn’t like about being President. "May I say that I have never liked gossip," he said. "Gossip makes me feel bad, and iniquity, people that tell you things and you know they are …

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President Mejía then made it clear that he didn’t believe in government officers remaining for than two-years on the job. He said in his government no one would stay on for four years. "Whoever does things well, may stay at most two years, he who wins the respect of the community. He who does not, …

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Technical Secretary of the Presidency, Rafael Calderon announced that President Mejia has chosen that development councils on national, sectarian, regional, provincial and municipal levels will be the organization units that help plan how the national budget will be distributed nationwide. Decree 685-00 creates the new organizations, that will be made up by government institutions, and …

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The president of the National Association of Young Entrepeneurs (ANJE), Ignacio Guerra said that the present economic model suffocates the development of business as it contains measures that affect competitiveness, restrict access to vital resources and penalize the productive sectors. "The Dominican economy cannot achieve sustained development if we maintain an economic model that displaces …

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Former President Leonel Fernández returned yesterday evening via Miami, Florida. He had traveled to Santiago de Chile to participate in the Círculo de Montevideo talks on 25 August. On his way back, in Washington, D.C. he participated in the Interamerican Dialogue talks. He had no comments on reported scandals of corruption in his government.