2008 – Page 323

The National Council for Social Security (CNSS) will hold an important meeting today to discuss the terms of its agreement with the private clinics and doctors providing services to the Family Health Insurance programs (SFS). At issue is the request made by union leadership that the agreement contained in Resolution 147-07 should be rescinded, and …

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The most striking thing about the PLD announcement of President Leonel Fernandez as the PLD’s candidate to the 2008 May election event at Santo Domingo’s basketball arena yesterday was the fact that former PLD chief strategy mastermind and former Secretary of the Presidency Danilo Medina was not there. Medina, a staunch opponent of presidential re-election, …

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Cucina, kitchen goods store, is announcing the start of 30% sale on all goods, and 50% on selected items. Monday, 28 February to Saturday, 2 February. Located at Roberto pastoriza 321 (between Tiradentes and Lope de Vega). Nueva Dimension, furniture store, advertises sales of 20-50% on furniture sets. Roberto Pastoriza No. 456. LMH is advertising …

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The Dominican Republic lost one of its most famous sports journalists on Friday night. As he watched the Licey-Aguilas baseball game, Johnny Naranjo passed away. The news ran like lightening through all the broadcast booths and took some of the luster from the Aguilas’ victory. Naranjo was a civil engineer who graduated from the University …

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The Aguilas Cibaenas have won the Dominican Winter League Baseball Championship for the second consecutive year, earning the right to represent the Dominican Republic in this year’s Caribbean World Series. It just so happens that the regional tournament will be held in the Aguilas hometown, Santiago de los Caballeros. The final game was a nail-biter …

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Today the Aguilas Cibaenas and the Tigres del Licey will pick and choose from all of the players available from the other teams in the league, to make up their rosters for the Caribbean World Series. The Aguilas have already made it known that their first choice will be Brayan Pena from the Gigantes del …

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On Saturday, 26 January, Dominicans celebrate the 195th anniversary of Juan Pablo Duarte’s birth. Duarte was one of the DR’s three founding fathers who together with Francisco del Rosario Sanchez and Ramon Matias Mella, formed the La Trinitaria underground movement, which led to Dominican independence from Haitian rule. The date is a holiday in the …

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From 1992 until 2007 Dominicans paid a total of RD$125 billion in taxes on gasoline. Hoy writes that from 1992 onwards each government has justified these increases with the argument that fuel tax revenue would be used for the payment of services, interest and capital of the external debt. According to figures provided by the …

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While quick to challenge any controversy pointing in his direction, Senate leader Reinaldo Pared Perez has decided to stay relatively mum in reaction to Hoy’s publication just how much senators cost the country. Yesterday, the Senate leader was asked to comment on reports that each senator costs the state roughly RD$2 million per month and …

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Dominican imports for 2007 increased by US$2.7 billion for a total of RD$10,353,955,609. This is 35% more than in 2006, according to figures released by the Customs Department (DGA). The DGA report says that the increase in exports highlights the dynamism of the Dominican economy in 2007. In 2003 the DR imported US$4.38 billion, and …

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