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Rector Miguel Rosado of the state university (UASD) denounced in an interview in Hoy newspaper that Federacion de Estudiantes Dominicanos (FED), William Martinez and Ambiorix, president of MIEL (Movimiento Independiente Estudiantil de Liberacion) were delivering so-called summer courses charging students RD$100 for two hours and making millions. They were selling the credit at RD$50 while …

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The hurricane prediction team head by Dr. William Gray announced that the season wont be as bad as forecast in early June. In the revised forecast and final update for the year, the Colorado State University team is calling for 11 named storms, seven hurricanes and three major hurricanes. An average year during the period …

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President-elect Hipólito Mejía will expand the Fernández administration program that for the first time has provided public school students access to computer instruction. Nazir Atallah, appointed director of the "Informatica para Todos" program of the new government that starts 16 August, says that the plan is to expand computer science education into the elementary levels. …

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The widow of former President Antonio Guzman, Renee Klang widow Guzman warned President Elect Hipolito Mejia that he should choose his collaborators carefully. Interviewed on the Enfoque Semanal program on Channel 9, Color Vision, she said that the choice of collaborators is essential for good government. He said that Mejia will do a good government …

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News reports say that the CDE, the state electricity utility, check for RD$400 million could not be cashed because of lack of funds in the bank. Thus private producers announced they will continue to keep their plants shut down. The private producers want to collect now past debts and are pressuring the government to get …

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The Economic Commission for Latin American and the Caribbean (ECLAC in English and CEPAL in Spanish) released in Santo Domingo a report that presents Dominican economic growth as a textbook case for Latin America. The "Economic and Social Development in the DR: The Past 20 Years and Perspectives for the 21st Century" was released at …

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President-elect Hipólito Mejía announced that the DR will benefit from a US$25 million loan for the purchase of asphalt from Venezuela. The loan is part of a package of funding reaching US$77.5 million the country will borrow from the Fondo de Inversiones de Venezuela, as part of the Acuerdo de San José petroleum purchasing agreement. …

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President-elect Hipólito Mejía spoke up in favor of strengthening Dominican relations with the Caribbean. El Siglo newspaper reports that while making a nine-hour stopover in Curacao on his way back to the DR from Venezuela, the President elect stressed the importance of Caribbean integration for the region’s development and fight against poverty. "We have to …

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President-elect Hipólito Mejía announced in Caracas, Venezuela, that Maximo Aristy Caraballo is his choice for District Attorney. Aristy Caraballo is a PRD deputy (congressman) for La Altagracia province. Mejía had earlier announced that Virgilio Bello Rosa was his choice for Attorney General. Aristy Caraballo is a cousin of former La Altagracia senator, Amable Aristy Castro.

The president of the Grupo Financiero Popular, Alejandro Grullon returned to the DR on Friday. He arrived on a private jet that flew into La Romana airport. He was hospitalized in New York suffering from heart trouble. The GFP is the leading bank holding company in the DR.