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The Ministry of Education yesterday received the first 922 tents of 2,146 donated by a Canadian organization. They will replace makeshift outdoor classrooms. The Canadian Foundation for World Development, due to the efforts of Elina Katsman, honorary consul in Toronto, made the donation.

The Listin Diario reports today on the US$13 million the country has spent in its efforts to restore the right for Dominican registration aircraft to fly to US territory. The FAA banned Dominican registration from flying to US territory in 1993, after several safety violations were detected. Despite seven years having gone by, and more …

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The nation’s treasurer, Pastora Mendez de Fondeur said that the government will pay the announced 10% increase for state employees making up to RD$5,000 starting with the February 15 checks. The February salary will retroactively include the promised increase for the month January, she said. She said there was no time to make the adjustment …

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For the past 24 years, artifacts that are part of the national heritage have been given away as gifts to foreign politicians. According to El Caribe, Balaguer was one of the first to violate Law 318-68 he himself had passed regarding the prohibition of the export of historic objects. Balaguer himself gave Andrew Young, at …

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The Secretary of the Presidency Sergio Grullón told the National Council of Business (CONEP) that the government will reduce import tariffs as per dispositions contained in the Tariff Reform Law as soon as the law is published in the press. Businessmen have complained that while the government has been prompt to apply ITBIS tax increase …

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The Presidency confirmed that President Hipolito Mejia will travel to Canada to participate in the Summit of the Americas, scheduled for 20-22 April in Quebec City, Canada. The third of its kind, the spring 2001 conference will discuss advances towards the Free Trade Area of the Americas, among other common hemispheric issues. Luis Gonzalez Fabra, …

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Father Manuel Antonio Ruiz continues to battle against the government concession to Tokio Motors, an importer of used motorcycles and refrigerators from Japan, of 30,000 meters adjacent to the vocational school the church is building in the area. Supposedly, the entire area is a protected area where constructions should not have been permitted at all. …

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The Consorcio Azucarero del Caribe’s executives left for Mexico supposedly for the Christmas holidays and have not returned. The State Sugar Council (CEA) says that the Mexican company has not made the investments needed to repair the mills, as the contract between Conazucar and the Dominican state establishes. Conazucar says it has records that state …

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The legal consultant of the government Guido Gomez Mazara said that the consular invoice will be history as of this Friday. He said the consular invoice has only served to enrich Dominican consuls, and not much else. A longtime headache to business, the invoice is required to move merchandise. To legalize trade transactions, the consuls …

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