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The vice president of Liz Claiborne International, Liz Kane, said last week upon visiting the Dominican outlet that the local franchise is the largest outside of the United States and is a replica of the store the company has on Fifth Avenue in New York City. Angel Guidicelli was the architect, while the interior decoration …

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The Monetary Board authorized the Central Bank to assume control of the operations of the Banco del Comercio Dominicano which is in the final stages of selling its majority shareholding to the Banco Central Hispano de España. The Central Bank took the action to stop a run on the bank that would cause its collapse. …

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The principal executives of Petrolera Once Once, Jaak and John Rannik, say that after carrying out new seismographic studies they have decided to relocate their third exploratory drilling for natural gas. They will be drilling the third 2,000 feet hole in La Guiza, San Francisco de Macorís, after analyzing data from their first drilling which …

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The suspended Director General of Prisons, Alberico Hernández, has been arrested and charged with permitting the escape of the convicted drug trafficker, Simón Abreu Súarez, as well as keeping large percentages of the money allocated for the purchase of food for the inmates at La Victoria prison in the National District. Two of Mr. Hernández’s …

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With the payment of US$4,500,000 by the government to the Smith-Enron corporation for the purchase of fuel for its power station in Puerto Plata, the electricity service in the D.R. improved substantially last week. Power cuts were reduced in length and frequency, and the usual complaints heard from almost all sectors of Dominican society were …

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The Dominican Republic has deported at least two ex-officials of the Haitian government of General Raoul Cedras (1991-1994). The ex-chief of police of the Cedras government, Michel Francois, and the former mayor of Port-Au-Prince, Franc Romain, were both given political asylum in Honduras. The deportations come after rumors of a plot among former officials of …

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The National Meteorological Office recently released a bulletin in which it warns that this year “we will have more hurricane activity than is usual, in comparison to the last 45 years.” It says that seasonal forecasts have predicted a higher number of tropical storms in the Atlantic Basin in 1996 than in previous years. The …

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The state-run Universidad Autonoma de Santo Domingo (UASD) was the site of student protests on 24 April, the 31st anniversary of the “Revolution of 1965” which resulted in a limited civil war in the D.R, mostly concentrated in the capital. During the protests, students threw rocks and other objects at police, who responded with tear …

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The film “Para Vivir o Morir” by director Fidel Muñiz and directed by Radel Villalona, currently on view for the general public in Santo Domingo, opened on 23 April. The third Dominican film with considerable domestic promotion in the last year and a half (the others being “Pasaje de Ida” and “Nueba Yol”), it addresses …

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Participating in the first major campaign rally with Partido Reformista Social Cristiano (PRSC) candidate Jacinto Peynado and his vice president Maribel Gassó, President Balaguer swore “before the Santísima Virgen de la Altagracia” and the Dominican people that he supports the two as the candidates for his political party. President Balaguer joined Jacinto Peynado in a …

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