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The US Consulate has invited US citizens to take advantage of the special services for US citizens that will be offered on Thursday, 20 September in Santiago. Consulate personnel will travel from Santo Domingo to Santiago to register children born in the DR, issue passports and renewals, offer notary public services, registration for the US …

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Operation Hispaniola takes off today with 16 people between 22 and 44 years old being left in Los Haitises National Park to spend 40 days incommunicado, without electricity, food, potable water and defying all odds in order to win RD$500,000 in prize money. Channel 13 cameras will follow their quest to survive. Depending on how …

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President Hipolito Mejia said yesterday on the El Dia TV morning show on Channel 11 that he will include in the constitutional reform bill a provision that would ban anyone who has already been president of the country from running for office again. Costa Rica has a law like this. If applied retroactively, it would …

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For many months, the press has focused on legislators’ desire for a reform to the Constitution that would allow them to extend their terms two more years. They say they want this change so that presidential and congressional elections occur at the same time. Political analysts have explained the real intent is to prolong their …

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The Dominican Republic has negotiated a deal to export sugar to China with a preferential tariff. Federico Cuello, ambassador in charge of negotiations with the World Trade Organization, said the DR has joined a group of countries that will benefit from a quota of 1,680,000 metric tons of sugar that will enter China paying a …

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Physicians working in the Robert Reid Cabral Children’s Hospital limited their work yesterday to emergencies and critical cases only. An estimated 300 children who visited the center were sent home. The hospital is the country’s leading children’s medical center and parents come from all around the country. The physicians, with the support of the Dominican …

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Dominican airport authorities have established new restrictions for the arrival and departure of citizens from Pakistan, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon and Arab countries. The Migration Department has ordered these citizens to be questioned at the airport prior to their entry or departure. News reports yesterday said residents from Afghanistan have been detained by the National Department …

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US dollars were reaping more pesos yesterday, but market experts believe the increase just reflects the difficulties to the market caused by the terrorist attack on NY. Exchange houses were buying dollars at RD$16.90 to RD$17.00, while commercial banks were offering RD$16.55 to RD$16.95. The official buy rate is RD$16.66. Meanwhile, commercial banks were selling …

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President Leonel Fernandez has agreed to appear today before the District Attorney Maximo Aristy Caraballo for questioning regarding a RD$1.4 billion fund managed during his last eight months in office. Fernandez had rejected an “invitation” from Jesus Felix, director of the discredited Department for the Prevention of Corruption, an office of the Attorney General. Head …

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President of the Supreme Court Jorge Subero Isa said he would resign if political criteria prevail in the making of court decisions. “I will leave through the same door that political criteria enters in the decision making of the Supreme Court of Justice,” he said when interviewed after the swearing in of three new judges. …

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