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Dominican, Canadian leaders meet, dodge sticky gold mine issue
Santo Domingo.- President Leonel Fernandez Canada Governor General Michaëlle Jean met in the National Palace on Wednesday ,where the two leaders spoke about important regional topics.
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Dominican Republic’s most wanted had Puerto Rican politicos in his pocket
Santo Domingo.- None of the politicians of the city of Bayamón who in the mid 1990s asked then governor Pedro Rosselló to pardon the convict Jose Figueroa Agosto sought to learn of the serious crimes he committed, said yesterday one of those implicated.
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Police Chief taps a new top traffic cops
SANTO DOMINGO. – Police chief Rafael Guzmán on Wednesday designated Assistant chief Henry Peralta interim director of the Metropolitan Transit Authority (Amet).
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Residents say Dominican Government officials own condos in tower under probe (UPDATE)
Santo Domingo.-National District prosecutor Alejandro Moscoso said Wednesday afternoon that the owners of the 1,200 kilos of cocaine seized last week in the port of Valencia, Arturo del Tiempo and Núñez Cebria, are now being held in a Barcelona jail.
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After Chavez’s snub, Dominican leader gets Uribe’s thanks
Bogota. - The Government of Colombia expressed its gratitude to Dominican Republic chief executive Leonel Fernandez, for his mediation to ease the strained relations between Bogota and Caracas.
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Batey Relief takes dental, medical care for Haiti’s quake victims
Anse-a-Pitre, HAITI. – As part of its continuing disaster relief intervention in Haiti, the Batey Relief Alliance (BRA) is dispatching on March 27th a team of 20 dental and medical specialists from the United States to far-reached earthquake-affected border commune of Anse-a-Pitre to deliver much needed dental and medical care to children and their families living in impoverished conditions.
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Signed pact seeks a transparent nation
SANTO DOMINGO. - The National Ethics and Anticorruption Commission (CNECC) and the Santo Domingo Technological Institute (INTEC), signed an agreement on Tuesday, to promote ethical values in the academic sphere, aimed at students of the different universities.
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Jehovah’s Witnesses offer free Bible instruction in English
Santo Domingo – There is now help available for English speakers with a spiritual inclination here in Santo Domingo. Starting January 3, 2010 and continuing every Sunday thereafter, Christian meetings are held in English at the “Salon del Reino de los Testigos de Jehová,” #33 Avenida Francia on the corner of Galvan, in the Gascue sector of Santo Domingo.
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Expert: remittances should jump start Dominican economy
Santo Domingo. - The head of the Economic Development Organization’s (OECD) Latin America Unit yesterday said the country must take advantage of remittances its citizens receive and to turn them into a financial catalyst for the local economy, through programs such as bonds focused towards the nationals who live abroad.
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Cable theft prompts Dominican Republic ban on scrap metal exports
SANTO DOMINGO. - The Customs Agency suspended copper exports until the scrap metals market is regularized, a measure taken to prevent the theft of cables which has led to hundreds of millions of pesos in losses to the telecoms and the State-owned power companies.
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