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The Partido Revolucionario Dominicano is protesting that the government, through the National Treasury, has only delivered to municipalities 40% of the funding corresponding to the 4% of government revenues. This has affected more than 50,000 municipal employees that have not been paid in March. The PRD says the government is conspiring against the PRD, which …

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Judge Katia Miguelina Jim?nez sent back to the C?mara de Calificaci?n the dossier on the assassination of journalist Orlando Mart?nez. The judge ordered that the process start over because of irregularities in the presentation of the case. The Dominican judiciary also awaits the extradition from the US of former Air Force sergeant Mariano Dur?n Cabrera, …

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The Minister of Education, Ligia Amada Melo guaranteed that 18-year old Claubian Jean Jacques of Villa Altagracia, will not be expelled from his public school because of his lack of a birth certificate. The student made the headline in El Siglo yesterday because of the irony of his being honored by the government in February …

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Miguel Concepci?n, the private watchman who assassinated engineer Luis Liriano in the parking lot of Palacio del Cine, gave himself in to the Police yesterday. He alleges he was physically attacked by the victim and has a medical certificate to prove this. Witnesses say this is not true. Concepci?n turned himself into the police accompanied …

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The government of Japan donated US$2 million to the Dominican government, primarily in the form of farming equipment, such as tractors. The equipment will be used to improve productivity of agriculture after Hurricane George. The donation agreement was signed by Minister of Foreign Relations Eduardo Latorre and Ambassador of Japan Masato Akazawa.

According to a report in El Siglo newspaper, the Dominican Republic, one of the world’s leading sugar exporters, will have to import at least 30,000 tons of refined sugar for the domestic market. Last year, according to data from the Dominican Institute of Sugar (INAZUCAR), the country consumed 299,515 tons of sugar: 178,835 of crude …

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Monday afternoon, while they were making their way back to Santo Domingo to fly back to Puerto Rico, a bus overturned killing the driver and injuring 20 children on the La Cienaga-Manabao highway, near Jarabacoa. The bus slid down a precipice along the mountain road. The 20 children were returning from an excursion up the …

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The common bond is returned Peace Corps volunteers and staff who served in the Dominican Republic and desire to stay in touch with the country. That’s the profile of the newly organized Friends of the Dominican Republic, which will have its first Annual Meeting and Reunion Aug. 12-15 in St. Paul, Minnesota in conjunction with …

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Sammy Sosa got off to a bad start in his first day in the Major League baseball season. He struck out three times of four at bat. He told the press that what is important is not how one starts the season, but how one ends the season. Sosa hit 12 home runs in spring …

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MSH Entertainment has scored what might be equivalent to a towering home run by gaining the rights to a two-hour, made for television, animated biography on Sammy Sosa, last year’s Most Valuable Player in the National League who hit 66 home runs and has become Major League baseball’s newest icon.The animated telefilm, which is scheduled …

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