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The XXII Vuelta Independencia Nacional will take place 20-27 February. The cycling race is broken down into eight stages in seven days that take competitors throughout the DR. Teams from 16 countries are expected. Confirmed participants are coming from Brazil, Italy, Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela, Costa Rica, Puerto Rico, Guadeloupe, St. Maarten, Guatemala, United States (Miami, …

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President Hipolito Mejia traveled today, 19 January to Jamaica to be present at the meeting of Caribbean heads of state and the Prime Minister of Canada Jean Chretien. President Mejia travels with empty hands, though, not having been able to come through with his promise to Caribbean heads of state of the congressional approval of …

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AAA Dominicana won the contract to install 35,000 water meters in Santo Domingo. With the granting of the contract, the Santo Domingo water corporation (CAASD) seeks to improve the management of its resources and reduce losses due to leakages and waste. At present, consumers are billed fixed sums, despite the amount of water consumed. CAASD …

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The District Attorney announced the persecution of owners of three entertainment centers in Andres, Boca Chica, the town adjacent to the tourist resort area of Boca Chica. The owners of the pension Los Coquitos, the bar Lindo Amanecer and the Café Nuevo Milenio are accused of hiring minors. It is illegal to allow minors into …

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Police investigators uncovered yesterday the corpse of 72 year Isabel Martinez de Zouain, from the city of Santiago. She was the wife of musician and businessman Moises Zouian. Her cadaver was found when Police investigators noticed the shuffling of an area in the patio of the lady’s house in the Del Este neighborhood in Santiago. …

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Codetel, the leading telecommunication company in the DR, delivered to the Ministry of Education the first three modular mobile units for the start of the Virtual Classrooms project. The classrooms will be used for public school student computer classes. The project calls for an overall RD$85 million investment in the installation of 90 such classrooms. …

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The Ministry of Agriculture’s Cattleranching Department says that all meat product imports from Europe are banned. The ban is on to protect the country from the entry of the mad cow illness.

El Caribe newspaper reports that in 2000 the Instituto Seismological Institute at the Universidad Autonoma de Santo Domingo, the state university, registered 78 earthquakes, between 2 and 4.5 on the Ritcher scale. University equipment registered eight hurricanes of more than 4 on the Ritcher Scale. Thirty-four registered 3-3.5 on the scale. Most of these earthquakes …

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