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Representatives of the Ministry of Public Health, the Instituto Dominicano de Seguro Social (IDSS), the Cuerpo Médico y Sanidad Militar, the Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo (UASD), and the Asociación Médica Dominicana (AMD) have agreed to extend doctors’ residencies by six months because of the time they lost during the six-month AMD strike in public …

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President Joaquin Balaguer received the new ambassadors from El Salvador, Austria and Belgium on 26 June. Carlos Ernesto Mendoza Collado of El Salvador, Johannes Skriwan of Austria and Ronald A.A.R. De Langhe of Belgium met with President Balaguer, Vice-President Jacinto Peynado and Foreign Minister Caonabo Javier Castillo, among others, at the National Palace. Mr. Mendoza …

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Maria Luz Garcia Varona, the young woman whose name surfaced, during the questioning of Mario Jose Redondo Llenas, one of the confessed killers of young Jose Rafael Llenas Aybar, as the proposed victim of a kidnap attempt which was never carried out, was interviewed by Judge Alexis Henriquez Nunez. According to the Listin Diario newspaper, …

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The president of the Basketball Association of the National District, Andres Liberato, announced that its professional basketball tournament will begin on 18 July. The summer professional league consists of teams from clubs in Los Mina, San Lazaro, Los Prados, Villa Duarte (Calero), and San Carlos will participate in the tournament. The games will be played …

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A “retrospective exhibition” by Dominican painter Jaime Colson is currently being featured at the UNESCO building in Paris. The 72-works will be on show to the public until 17 July, and then transferred to the Casa de America in Madrid. A chronological presentation has been adopted, starting with Mr. Colson’s time in Barcelona in the …

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Criticism continued against the conviction and jail sentence of journalist Juan Bolivar Diaz, the director of news at TeleAntillas (channel 2). The Lawyers’ Association of Haina and the Movement for the Transformation of Dominican Justice have come out against the verdict, arguing that judicial standards were not followed in the case. Much of the testimony …

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Employees of the government agency, known as the Instituto de Estabilizacion de Precios (INESPRE), claim that they have not been paid for two months. People from the agency, including supervisors, visited the Listin Diario newspaper to call attention to their plight. They asked President Balaguer to intervene on their behalf. INESPRE has experienced serious financial …

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Angel Barrioso of the newspaper Hoy says that “every day we move a step ahead, and in the next election we will note something different: it will just be a matter of ‘daily routine'”. In his column on Monday, 1 July he commented on how politicians should look into reducing the cost of an election. …

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The Dominican Republic could export some US$25 million in bananas to Europe this year, according to a report in the newspaper Hoy. Last year, banana exports brought in US$20 million. Belgium and Portugal purchased 80% of the fruit. Hoy also quotes the last publication of the Junta Agroempresarial Dominicana (JAD), the principal farming organization, saying …

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The Banco Hipotecario Dominicano (BHD) has received a US$11 million loan from the British Commonwealth Development Bank (CDC), for a special mortgage scheme in U.S. dollars for Dominicans living abroad, and for medium-term loans for businesses providing goods and services. José A. Caro, president of BHD, and Michael Bax, the local CDC representative, signed the …

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