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The president of the Trinidad Chamber of Commerce in the Dominican Republic, Fernando González Nicolás said that 36 companies from Trinidad will visit Santo Domingo on a business mission. The Trinidad Manufacturers Association, the Dominican Embassy in Trinidad and the Trinidad Chamber of Commerce in the DR organize the mission. The Caribbean businessmen will be …

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School starts today in most public and private schools in the DR, but thousands of children had a thrill of the lifetime yesterday when participating in an event in their honor at the National Palace on Sunday. President Hipólito Mejía, after speaking on occasion of the opening of classes, invited the thousands of public school …

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President Hipólito Mejía ordered that tobacco farmers be paid RD$90 million for their crops that have not found buyers. The tobacco has been stashed away in warehouses for two years. The tobacco was planted in a boom year for cigar sales in the US. At that time anyone with a piece of land in the …

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President Hipólito Mejía again defended his right to the "spoils system" and rejected criticism from historian Mu-Kien Sang Ben and Luis Scheker Ortiz, a lawyer and Minister of Sports in a previous PRD administration. Mejía said these two could say whatever they wanted, but that he would continue firing government employees to make way for …

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Francisco Alvarez, coordinator of the Participación Ciudadana civic movement, criticized the firing of skilled government employees and said this is affecting government activities. He said that the government of Mejía is acting more with authoritarianism than with authority by making decisions removed from what the Constitution and laws establish. He said authority is power exercised …

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Engineer Cesar Sánchez, the new administrator of the CDE, said that the government will be paying RD$460 million a month in subsidies for power supply. This includes RD$330 million for the adjustment in fuel prices and RD$130 million to pay for power used by government offices.

El Caribe newspaper reported that the president of the Dominican Telecommunications Institute, Indotel, Orlando Jorge Mera announced tenders will be held to choose companies to install telephone service in rural areas, install community telecommunications centers and install Internet service in public libraries from 2001-2003. He said that despite the boom in telecommunications service in the …

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