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President Joaquin Balaguer’s term will end in less than 40 days, with more than 100 public works yet to be officially opened. Dr. Balaguer has put emphasis on building new schools, roads and other facilities since his return to power in 1986, and he would like to put his personal stamp on each one. In …

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Last week, Doctor Alexis Henríquez, the judge in charge of the investigations into the murder of 12 year old Jose Rafael Llenas Aybar and the plan to kidnap a young girl, requested President Balaguer to petition President Carlos Menem of Argentina to remove diplomatic immunity from the husband and a son of the Argentine Ambassador …

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Six senators of the Partido Reformista Social Cristiano (PRSC) have declared their wish to preside over the upper legislative body for the next session which begins on 16 August. The senators vying for the post are: Amable Aristy Castro of Villa Altagracia, the current president; Miguel Andres Berroa of Hato Mayor; Frank Martinez of La …

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Dr. Bautista (Bauta) Rojas will replace Vice President-elect Jaime David Fernández Mirabal as the lone senator of the Partido de la Liberación Dominicana (PLD), according to various high-ranking members of the PLD. Mr. Fernández Mirabal has come out in favor of Dr. Rojas, who was mayor of their native city of Salcedo from 1990 to …

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The Santo Domingo municipal council, the Armed Forces and the Attwoods Dominicana refuse collection company are currently removing all the political publicity from the streets of the city after a campaign of almost two years leading up to the 1996 presidential election. Main traffic arteries in the capital including the Avenidas Winston Churchill, 27 de …

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For most of the last two weeks, the Corporación Dominicana de Electricidad (CDE) has been reducing the length and frequency of power cuts both in the capital and the interior. On Thursday, 4 July, the CDE’s general administrator Amilcar Romero told the news media that the state-owned electricity company was generating 1,200,000 kilowatts, 100,000 more …

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The Ministry of Education has canceled the exclusive contract of Editorial Santillana, which was to provide textbooks for primary schools in the D.R. for the 1996-97 school year. The contract was revoked after the Minister of Education, Jose Andres Aybar Sanchez, announced that the books were not acceptable to the Ministry’s Commission on Books and …

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The administration of the new Gigantes del Nordeste (San Francisco de Macoris) baseball team has assured its participation in the 1996-97 professional winter season by giving the league a check for RD$5,000,000, the last step required by the league’s administration. “With the payment of this deposit, the Gigantes have completed all requirements to become the …

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The European Union has prepared a proposal for a free trade agreement with Mexico. Negotiations towards this end are scheduled to commence in October. The pact is expected to be signed in 1997. Negotiations are said to move along swiftly as Europe is anxious to correct the drop in exports to Mexico. These declined by …

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Engineers Amilcar Romero, administrator of the Corporación Dominicana de Electricidad (CDE) and Temístocles Montás, a renowned energy expert, and a member of the transition team from the Partido de la Liberación Dominicana (PLD), have agreed on the importance of Congress passing the Ley General de Electricidad, the bill that would provide the legal framework for …

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