2004 – Page 98

Felix ?Super? Sanchez returned to the track today to show his determination to win the DR?s first Olympic gold. The 26-year-old athlete earned himself a time of 47:93 in the 400-meter hurdle semifinals today, easily beating his fellow competitors. During yesterday?s preliminary heats, Sanchez scored a time of 48:51, which was bested by Jamaican Danny …

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President Leonel Fernandez was busy over the weekend, naming PRSC activist Humberto Salazar as his medical advisor, via Decree 905-04, and also appointing 11 under-ministers, 23 provincial governors, 35 assistant district attorneys for the National District (Santo Domingo) and two assistant legal councilors. The decree designated Julio Anibal Fernandez Javier, Rolando Perez Uribe, Griseldy Rodriguez, …

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Secretary of State Colin Powell offered his support to new Dominican President Leonel Fernandez, according to Carlos Morales Troncoso, the Minister for Foreign Affairs. As reported in the Listin Diario, Morales was participating in the XXIII Summit Meeting of Chancellors of the Group of Rio, when he received a call from Powell to congratulate the …

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Newly seated President Leonel Fernandez, who was widely criticized for his many trips overseas only to be far outdone by Hipolito Mejia, will be on his way to Panama and the United States in September. Fernandez will be in Panama on 1 September for the inauguration of Omar Torrijos, that nation?s new head of state. …

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An IMF team of experts identified the causes of the banking crisis that immersed the country into the critical economic situation it finds itself today. The pundits hired by the IMF to analyze the collapse of three important banks said that an independent Central Bank and Superintendence of Banks, along with a clear definition of …

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Attorney General Francisco Dominguez Brito told reporters that he was waiting for the finalized list of employees to be posted to the Justice Department in order to begin the process of evaluations of the different district attorneys. These steps are necessary to fulfill the requirements for the irrevocability established under the Statute of the Justice …

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The new chief of the National Police, Major General Manuel de Jesus Perez Sanchez, has ordered that members of the investigative departments be in uniform when conducting patrols. At the same time, he ordered members of the police force and representatives of private investigators to meet on a daily basis to exchange information, with direct …

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AES-Andres has received a shipment of LNG (Liquid Natural Gas) for its generators in Andres and Los Mina. The newly arrived fuel will provide as much as 510 megawatts to the national system. According to reports in the Listin Diario and other papers, the announcement by President Fernandez that he would provide US$50 million to …

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Writer and commentator Emilio Lapayese lost his long battle with diabetes at the age of 69 over the weekend. Lapayese was the author of the short column ?En solo cien palabras? (?In Just 100 Words?) that appeared nearly every day in Hoy newspaper. His writing was described as ironic, critical and incisive and his comments …

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The Diario Libre celebrates its 1,000th edition today, the oldest and largest of the new-style, smaller-format free press in the Dominican Republic. The inspiration for this new type of newspaper came from Sweden, where the Metro appeared as the first of the new format newspapers, designed to be read quickly. Today, three years and three …

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