2004 – Page 60

Aerodom, the company that oversees all airline operations in the DR, told the Listin Diario that while the contract they signed on 7 July 1999 called for an investment of US$203 million in a first phase, it also established that if international long-term financing could not be obtained, as is the present case, the investment …

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The National Police announced that some 15,562 agents have been assigned to patrol city streets, of which 5,562 have been designated to the National District and Province of Santo Domingo. This number is up from the 4,000 agents who were previously assigned to street service under the former police chief. Metropolitan Transport Authority (AMET) traffic …

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Santiago prosecutor Raul Martinez says that several of the minors being questioned by the youth court judge for involving themselves with a pornographic website will assist them in identifying the people responsible. Martinez said that while no one has been arrested yet, they are working on various leads to solve the case. Judge Antia Beato …

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Air Force swat teams combed an Iberia flight that was bound for Madrid, after an anonymous call indicated there was a bomb was on board. Accompanied by trained dogs, the investigators revised the plane but did not find anything unusual. It was later discovered that the anonymous call was placed by a businessman who did …

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Harold Priego, the political cartoonist who imbues his characters with what everyone thinks but dares not say, announced that his popular Boquechivo cartoon character will be made into a movie titled “Boquechivo, Presidente.” The film will be released in time for the 2006 congressional and municipal elections, he told Diario Libre, the newspaper in which …

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Eyes in the DR are on Manny Ramirez and David Ortiz, third and fourth bat and pitcher Pedro Martinez of the Boston Red Sox, and Alex Rodriguez of the New York Yankees as they fight to represent the American League in the Major League baseball playoffs. Channel 37 is transmitting the first game of the …

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President Leonel Fernandez traveled to Miami yesterday. During a meeting with Dominicans living in Miami, he addressed the recent wave of violence in the DR and attributed this to an increase in drug trafficking following the relaxing of law enforcement efforts to combat drug trafficking. He said that his government will confront crime without respite …

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Diario Libre pointed out on Saturday that Armed Forces Minister Sigfrido Pared Perez has made comments that contradict statements made by other high-ranking civilian government offices. For instance, Attorney General Francisco Dominguez Brito had spoken that he backs a project to purge the Armed Forces. Pared Parez would respond in a press interview that reform …

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Political commentator Orlando Gil writes on Saturday in the Listin Diario that the issue of the government appointing more deputy ministers than those established by law per ministry is hurting the government’s image. Gil emphasizes that President Leonel Fernandez had pointed out that his government would only appoint those established by law, but in practice …

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Former Central Electoral Board judge Julio Cesar Castanos Guzman considered abusive that the government disbursed RD$412 million to the political parties when public hospitals do not have medicines, there are not enough schools for children, as reported in Hoy today. He says politicians are a privileged class in the DR. Castanos Guzman spoke during the …

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