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Montreal-based Gildan Activewear (GIL) claims 60% of the US wholesale market for simple low-cost cottons and blends. The company sells mostly to wholesalers who in turn sell to companies that personalize the garments. The company attributes its success to its early move to offshore manufacturing in the DR and not Asia. Labor costs in the …

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Today’s lead editorial in the New York Times says that Haiti’s misery is not over. “It’s getting worse, as the outside attention fades away”. The editorial goes on to describe the horrific conditions in the temporary camps that are housing hundreds of thousands of earthquake victims. Overcrowding, disease and vile living conditions are accentuated by …

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Assistant prosecutor Frank Soto says that no villa in Casa de Campo has been confiscated in the case of Spaniard Arturo del Tiempo Marques. Marques was arrested in Spain for attempting to smuggle 1,200 kilos of cocaine from the DR through the Spanish port of Valencia. Soto says that Del Tiempo was renting the villa, …

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Maestro Carlos Piantini died at dawn this Friday after several days of hospitalization in Miami. He would have been 83 on 9 May. Piantini played the violin in the New York Philarmonic Orchestra under Leonard Bernstein for 15 years before choosing to return to the DR in 1973 to be the first artistic director of …

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A benefit to raise funds for an operation for Camila, a 4-year old girl who suffers from Charge Syndrome, is being held at the Ruins of San Francisco in the Colonial City on Saturday, 27 March. Tickets are RD$1,000. Starting at 3pm, Patricia Pereyra, Felle Vega, Marel Alemany, Rita Indiana y los Misterios, Victor Victor, …

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President Leonel Fernandez was at the reopening of the Hospital Rodolfo de la Cruz Lora in Pedro Brand, Km. 28 of the Duarte Highway yesterday. The hospital previously was the leading center for treating tuberculosis, but it has now been converted into a full service hospital. The government says it invested RD$268 million in the …

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City Mayor Roberto Salcedo, who is running for mayor for his third term, turned down the opportunity offered by the American Chamber of Commerce to debate what the city needs with his closest contender for the post, Alfredo Pacheco of the PRD. The candidate who wins in 2010 will stay on for six years, through …

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The Navy has remodeled and equipped the Navy station at the Port of Cabo Rojo, in Pedernales, near the border with Haiti. The station is considered strategic for the security and defense of Dominican coastal waters. Present at the inaugural were Armed Forces Minister Lieutenant General Pedro Rafael Pena Antonio and Vice Admiral Homero Luis …

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The Executive Branch has instructed the Ministry of Hacienda to place US$1 billion in sovereign bonds. The President signed the bill yesterday. The funds would be used to finance road infrastructure, and can also be allotted to health, education and environmental projects. The Presidency explains that the funds cannot be used for current expenses.

Diario Libre publishes today a follow up on TV journalist Nuria Piera’s revelation that a sister of the Minister of Public Health is irregularly profiteering through her company, Meta Seguros that offers life and accident insurance to ministry employees. Public Health Minister had commented he inherited the practice of employee discounts for insurance and that …

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