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President Mejia, who at the start of his government said that cabinet posts were for one year only, told the press that he would continue with the people who have worked hard (“fajao”) at his side. Regarding errors his cabinet ministers may have made, he said, “The only one who knew everything was Superman and …

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School starts nationwide on Monday, 3 September. The Ministry of Education says 2,337,920 students have enrolled in elementary and high school. This is broken down into 1,831,289 in the public school system and 461,936 in private schools. El Siglo newspaper reports that the Ministry says 100,00 new students have registered.

The board of the Partido de la Liberacion Dominicana (PLD) declared itself in permanent session yesterday and appointed Norge Botello to coordinate protocol and military honor preparations for the possible demise of former President Juan Bosch. The 92-year-old politician/writer is in the intensive care unit of the Abel Gonzalez Medical Center on Abraham Lincoln Avenue. …

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The Chamber of Deputies has elected PRD party spokesman Alfredo Pacheco (PRD-National District) to represent the Chamber of Deputies in the National Council of the Magistracy. The deputies voted 78-49 in his favor. The Council was convened to choose three new Supreme Court judges. Internal rivalry in the PRD kept the Senate from choosing its …

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No one doubts boy pitcher Danny Almonte could become another Pedro Martinez. Playing for the US, he led the Bronx team to win the third place in the Little League Baseball World series. But the same outstanding performance that made him the star of the recently ended series also put the spotlight on an investigation …

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President Hipolito Mejia said yesterday that he will not change his ways just because he is President. “I am a president, like all of you,” he said at a meeting of his social program ministers at the National Palace. “I have not wanted the countryside to get out of my head,” he said. “There are …

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A Peruvian company, Corporacion de Negocios y Lacteos, has signed an agreement with the Dominican government for the installation of a plant to process plantains for fortified plantain flour and other products for public school breakfasts. The plant calls for a US$15 million investment over two phases. The plant will go up in the north …

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Hoy newspaper reports on the almost two-hour traffic jams during peak times on Sunday afternoon, returning to Santo Domingo from the East. President Hipolito Mejia got a taste of the bottleneck when returning from his Juan Dolio vacation home last Sunday. To skirt the bottleneck, his caravan moved into the opposite lane, causing even more …

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The National Association of Informatics Companies (Aneinfo) is complaining that a new US$300 million government plan to open computer schools nationwide will put them out of business, says El Caribe newspaper. The new governmental Instituto Audiovisual de Informatica (IADI) took a small computer school owned by Nazir Attalah and turned it into a nationwide program. …

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