2001 – Page 214

President Hipólito Mejia, in Higuey for the celebration of the special mass on occasion of Virgen de la Altagracia Day (21 January), asked the patron saint of Dominicans for help. News reports said he requested that the Virgin Mary orient him to be able to effectively confront poverty in the DR. The Bishop of the …

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The story is a common one. Again, the Navy reports relatives of 40 persons who attempted to make it clandestinely to Puerto Rico have urged them to go to the rescue of their family as these have not contacted them to tell them they arrived safely to their destination. This is interpreted that they have …

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Premium gasoline: RD$42.00 (RD$41.73) Regular gasoline: RD$36.69 (RD$36.48) Premium diesel: RD$26.22 (RD$25.35) Regular diesel: RD$24.14 (RD$23.28)

The National Police said that it arrested another 55 minors for driving over the weekend. The police already had arrested 179 minors, ages 13-17 for driving, in violation of the law. The Police said that parents of the minors will be taken to justice. On last Thursday alone, 120 minors were arrested. The Police announced …

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The Police announced the arrest of 23-year old Liriano Rojas Martinez and 43-year old Virgilio Antonio Rodriguez for the murder of 72-year old Isabel Martinez de Zouain, a much-appreciated Santiago lady. Hoy newspaper says that the cook and gardener of the deceased lady have mutually incriminated each other. Rojas said that Rodriguez planned the murder …

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Opponents to the construction of the Manabao-Bejucal-Tavera dam said that Silvio Carrasco, director of the government National Hydraulic Resources Institute offends the intelligence of the President of Republic when he said that the project does not contemplate the change of the course of the Yaque del Norte, Guanajuma, Arroyo and Los Dajaos rivers. Carrasco said …

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President Mejia said that he has authorized the construction of a north-south highway that would link the agrarian region of San Jose de Ocoa and the Cibao with the South. The cost of the project is RD$250 million, and reportedly, the contract for the construction of the highway has been entrusted to the Pablo Yarull …

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El Caribe newspaper reported that eight of a group of 4,000 Spanish farmers that came in 1955 attracted by a Franco-Trujillo migration treaty signed in 1956 by the two dictators finally got land titles. The titles had been promised to them as part of agreement stipulations. It took them 44 years, and much effort on …

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