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Noble Peace Prize winner, Argentinean Adolfo P?rez Esquivel said yesterday upon arriving to Santo Domingo that the Kosovo conflict could degenerate in a Third World War. He criticized the bombing in Belgrade by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). P?rez Esquivel flew to Santo Domingo to participate in the international seminar "Journalism and Democracy in …

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The Centro de Operaciones de Emergencias Interinstitucionales (COEI) reported that 46 persons died from noon Wednesday, 31 March through Sunday at 6:30 pm, 4 April. The final report of the inter institutional coordinating group, that sought to prevent lamentable occurrences during the Easter long weekend holiday, a peak for domestic travel, would be issued today …

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Residents and visitors to La Romana, in the southeast of the country, were taken by surprise by a 10-minute hail at around 3:40 pm on Good Friday. The hail storm cracked windows of some cars in La Romana reported El Siglo. Because of the time and day of the occurrence, several local residents kneeled down …

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President Leonel Fern?ndez made changes in his administration over the weekend. The changes in director positions were at the following institutions: Fondo de Promoci?n a las Iniciativas Comunitarias: Taina Gautreau Radio Televisi?n Dominicana: Pedro CabaLas Americas International Airport: Ar?stides Fern?ndez ZuccoCorporaci?n de Fomento Industrial: Lidio CadetNational Lottery: Aristipo Vidal

The Government is advancing on preparations for the II Summit of Heads of State and Government of the Association of Caribbean States. The event opens in Santo Domingo 16 April. Some 25 nations make up the association. Delegations from 14 Caribbean Community nations; Mexico, Venezuela and Colombia; and Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Honduras and Costa …

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The Ministry of Education received a donation of 700 Taiwanese computers, second lot of a total of 5,000 computers promised by the Government of Taiwan for public schools. The Taiwan government had already delivered a first bundle of 500 computers and promises to deliver the remaining computers before the end of this year. The government …

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Don Julio Alberto Hern?ndez, regarded as one of the leading national music composers of all times, passed away Friday, 2 April at the Plaza de la Salud medical center. He died of pneumonia. He was 98 years old. He is the grandfather of outstanding Dominican singer, Maridalia Hern?ndez.

Two persons died and three are missing from a fatal excursion of 20 to the Los Haitises National Park on Wednesday, 31 March. The group was made up by local residents of Sabana de la Mar (this is the city from where most excursions to the park leave) that boarded a National Parks Department boat …

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The District Attorney’s Office confiscated 600 computer terminals property of Caribbean Data Services, the largest telemarketing-call center in the DR, last week. The company is accused of violating Law 32-86 on copyright in prejudice of Microsoft Corporation. The District Attorney detected that 361 terminals were operating without the correct license for Windows 3.11, while 67 …

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Dominican free zone businessmen are making investments in Haiti free zone operations. Fernando Capell?n, of the large Grupo M, the largest textile manufacturing operation in the DR, says they expect to take advantage of Haiti’s trained personnel and unused export quotas to the US. He said that in some operations, they will be using Dominican …

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