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Public relations expert Manuel Quiterio Cedeno comments today in El Caribe on how the Ladom dairy company, which was denounced for supplying below standard products to public schools, has committed a long series of communication strategy errors. “First, when they thought that no one would dare report on the production of “milk” with whey without …

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Judge Eduardo Sanchez Ortiz discharged Hoy newspaper journalists Odalis Mejia and Jose Alfredo Espinal, who had been accused of defaming a man who the National Police had erroneously included in a case for the kidnapping of a child, from all responsibility. The journalists were declared innocent of articles 367, 371 and 372 of the Penal …

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Peravia Senator Wilton Guerrero has criticized the National Police’s report on the 4 August massacre of seven men in Bani, saying it is an insult to the public’s intelligence. Guerrero added the report didn’t name any of the masterminds behind the massacre, only those who are suspect of having done the dirty work. Guerrero says …

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Higuey district prosecutor Dario Morla survived an attempt on his life by suspected drug dealers who shot at him last night. He is recovering in the Clinica Dr. Perozo after receiving a bullet in an arm. He declared that three individuals in a white Mitsubishi Montero intercepted him near Iberia supermarket on the Mella highway, …

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Dominican basketball player Charlie Villanueva has been named the recipient of the NBA Community Assist Award for August, in recognition of his community service efforts. This is the second time Villanueva has received this award. The young star is being honored for his participation in the Tenis Para Ninos initiative, which has worked with the …

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President Leonel Fernandez will travel to the US on Sunday to address the 63rd United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday, 24 September at around 11am. He is scheduled to hold a meeting that same day with US President George Bush and counterparts from Central American nations to evaluate the first year of the DR-CAFTA free …

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President Leonel Fernandez is to present his bill proposal for constitutional reform to Congress today. There is speculation that the ban on running for President more than twice consecutively will be maintained, and that the congressional and municipal elections will be merged with the presidential election. The reform proposal is the most comprehensive ever to …

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PRD secretary general Orlando Jorge Mera says that the President’s suggested members for the Chamber of Accounts “reflects the clientelism resulting from the re-election pacts”. Jorge Mera was speaking on the Rafael Molina Morillo morning talk show on 106.5FM. President Fernandez has presented a selection of 27 names, dominated by dissident politicians who backed his …

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Roland Dubertrand (France), Luis Carresse (Uruguay), Gregoire Laitan Houde (Benin) and Johannes Dahl-Hansen (Denmark) presented diplomat credentials to President Leonel Fernandez yesterday. Fernandez was accompanied by VP Rafael Alburquerque and Foreign Relations Minister Carlos Morales Troncoso. Dubertrand has served as ambassador to the DR in the past and has a Masters Degree in Public Law …

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Dominican Ambassador Hans Dannenberg to Malaysia presented his credentials yesterday to King Kizan Zainal in Kuala Lumpur. He is the first Dominican ambassador to Malaysia. He presented his credentials together with the new ambassadors of Luxembourg, Bulgary, Germany, Czech Republic, Sudan and Canada. “Malaysia and the DR have much in common,” said Dannenberg. He said …

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