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News from the Dominican Republic as of
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Friday, December 30, 2005
WASHINGTON, USA (AFP): Implementation
of the US-Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA), which includes the
Dominican Republic, slated to begin January 1, has been pushed back until
February or March, a spokesman for the US trade representative's office said
Friday...
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Wednesday, December 14, 2005
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP): The Haitian government on Tuesday condemned violent
protests that forced the president of the Dominican Republic to cut short his
visit to Haiti amid tensions between the two countries over the treatment of
Haitian immigrants...
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Friday, November 18, 2005
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic: The new
President of Banco del Progreso, Roberto Bonetti, in a press conference held
in Santo Domingo on November 8, reassured clients about the integrity and
commitment of the bank and its board...
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Wednesday, November 9, 2005
NEW YORK, USA (AFP): Dominican Republic right-handed pitcher Bartolo Colon of
the Los Angeles Angels was named Tuesday as winner of the 2005 American League
Cy Young award as the circuit's outstanding pitcher this year...
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Monday, October 24, 2005
BARAHONA, Dominican Republic (UPI): Tropical Storm Alpha ran towards the open
Atlantic late Sunday after inflicting major flooding on the Dominican Republic
and Haiti...
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Wednesday, September 21, 2005
I was informed recently of an article which circulated in the whole of the
Caribbean region, signed by Sir Ronald Sanders, a Guyanese national and former
diplomat of his country, in which certain affirmations were made on which I
would like to make some comments...
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Thursday, September 8, 2005
WASHINGTON, USA: US Trade Representative Rob Portman has congratulated the
government of the Dominican Republic for its September 6 approval -- by "an
overwhelming margin" -- of a free-trade agreement with the United States and
Central America...
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Thursday, August 25, 2005
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AFP): Three Haitians who were severely burned
by attackers died in a Santo Domingo hospital from their injuries, a hospital
official said Tuesday...
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Wednesday, August 24, 2005
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP): More than 2,000 Haitians have been expelled from
neighboring Dominican Republic in a month's time, according to Haitian and
Dominican refugee defense groups...
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Tuesday, August 23, 2005
 A few
weeks ago, in July, the Foreign Minister of the Dominican Republic suggested
that his country should join the Caribbean Community and Common Market
(CARICOM). This would not be a good development for CARICOM now. This is
not the first time that the Dominican Republic has expressed an interest in
joining CARICOM...
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Monday, August 22, 2005
I traveled on American Airlines from NY with a connecting flight thru Santo
Domingo on July 27th. I would not recommend this flight due to the most
obnoxious, most unfriendly people at this International Airport destination...
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Friday, August 19, 2005
TOKYO, Japan (AFP): The Dominican Republic, along with six Central American
countries, on Thursday affirmed its support for Japan's bid to win a permanent
seat on the United Nations Security Council...
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Thursday, August 18, 2005
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic: Government officials in the Dominican
Republic, including President Fernandez himself, have expressed fears that the
constant hikes in oil prices may undermine economic recovery in the Caribbean
island nation...
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Dominican Republic's Santa bags silver in Sweden
Thursday, August 18, 2005
MALMO, Sweden: The Dominican Republic’s Carlos Santa was a second place finisher in the men’s 400-metres at MAI-Galan in Malmö,
Sweden Tuesday afternoon...
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Friday, August 12, 2005
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic:
Max Puig, Secretary of State for Environment and Natural Resources of the Dominican Republic,
has warned that some sectors (which he did not name) want to be given a blank
check to ruin the riches within the country’s protected areas...
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Sanchez gave it his best in Helsinki
Friday, August 12, 2005
 HELSINKI, Finland: There is no one that could stand up and truthfully say that Felix Sanchez, who was dethroned
as World Champion in the men’s 400m hurdles on Tuesday did not give his best in
Helsinki. Labeled as the event’s superman, Sanchez pulled up with a hamstring injury and failed to finish the
race...
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Thursday, August 11, 2005
My name is Evelyn Vasquez, and I would like to let the department of tourism both here and in the Dominican Republic
about my horrible experience while I visited Dominican Republic two weeks ago...
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Wednesday, August 10, 2005
HELSINKI, Finland (AFP): Bershawn Jackson won the men's 400 metres hurdles title here at the world athletics championships on Tuesday as reigning champion and Olympic gold medallist
Felix Sanchez failed to finish. The Dominican Republic star was running
against his doctor's advice...
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Monday, August 8, 2005
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic: President Fernandez of the Dominican
Republic has reportedly ordered his energy council to disregard an offer made by
Westmont Group to set up two second-hand coal-fired power plants, and stressed
that any contract for additional power generation must be carried out through an
international public tender process...
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Wednesday, August 3, 2005
 WASHINGTON, USA (AFP): US President George W. Bush on Tuesday signed a hotly contested US trade pact with Central America and the Dominican Republic (CAFTA),
saying the move would bolster economic growth and democracy in Latin America.
The House of Representatives passed the agreement late last week by a razor-thin
margin...
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Dominican Republic in search of lost income: The cost of
free trade
Wednesday, August 3, 2005
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic: After extremely heated, divisive and long protracted discussions amongst affected parties, both the US Senate and US House of Representatives approved the DR-Central American Free Trade Agreement with the United States (DR-CAFTA),
by very slim margins, though...
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Saturday, July 30, 2005
WASHINGTON, USA (AFP): Key facts on the US-Central American Free Trade Accord
which the US Congress approved early Thursday...
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Friday, July 29, 2005
WASHINGTON, USA (AFP): The White House scored a major victory in its campaign to
tear down global commerce barriers with the passage early Thursday of a hotly
contested US trade pact with the Dominican Republic and Central America...
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Sanchez wants to double up in Helsinki
Friday, July 29, 2005
 NEW YORK, USA: World and Olympic 400m
hurdles gold medallist Felix Sanchez from the Dominican Republic is determined
not just to defend his title at the 10th IAAF World Championships in Helsinki,
Finland which begin next month, but also to run a leg on his national 4x400
relay team...
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Tuesday, July 26, 2005
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic: Data recently released by the Central Bank of the Dominican Republic show visitor arrivals to the country grew by 9.23
percent in the first semester of 2005, or 174,608 more than the same period in
2004...
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Monday, July 25, 2005
ROSEAU, Dominica: Dominican authorities disclosed Thursday that visa
requirements would be slapped on nationals from Haiti and the Dominican Republic
to curb their illegal migration to neighbouring Caribbean islands...
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Friday, July 22, 2005
WASHINGTON, USA (AFP): President George W. Bush pushed hard Thursday to win
support for the free trade deal with the Dominican Republic and Central America,
which Congress is to vote on next week...
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Wednesday, July 20, 2005
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic: The Dominican Republic government's recently announced plan to award an untendered
contract to two foreign companies to install two second-hand coal-fired power
plants has met with strong opposition from some public opinion leaders here...
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Monday, July 18, 2005
MADRID, Spain: On a night when Olympic Pole Vault champion Yelena Isinbayeva of Russia produced yet another spectacular clearance of 4.95m to improve her World record, World and Olympic champion Felix Sanchez was soundly beaten in windy conditions in the men's 400-metres hurdles at the "Meeting de Atletismo Madrid 2005", the fifth leg of the IAAF Super Grand Prix Series in Madrid
on Saturday...
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Sanchez not worried about losing in Madrid
Monday, July 18, 2005
 MADRID, Spain: Dominican Republic's superman Felix Sanchez said he is not worried about losing to American Bershawn Jackson in the men's 400-metres hurdles at the "Meeting de Atletismo Madrid 2005", the fifth leg of the IAAF
Super Grand Prix Series in Madrid on Saturday. The World champion said the times
are not a problem...
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Friday, July 15, 2005
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic: To follow up on a promise he had made during his last state of the nation address, President Leonel Fernández
of the Dominican Republic was presented Tuesday a final draft of the 'Plan for
Democratic Security' by a commission he had charged with its writing...
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Friday, July 8, 2005
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic: According to local customs authorities’
estimates, the Dominican Republic receives some US$29m in remittances by its
nationals living on the different islands of the Caribbean...
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Monday, July 4, 2005
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic: The
Dominican Republic ambassador to Haiti, José Serulle Ramia, has said that
annual trade between the two countries sharing the Caribbean island of
Hispaniola totaled over US 27 million, and went on to state that “this year,
that figure is over 20 percent more than in 2004...
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Saturday, July 2, 2005
WASHINGTON, USA (AFP): The US Senate has approved a controversial free trade
pact with Central America and the Dominican Republic by a close 54-45 vote, with
a battle likely at its next stage in the House of Representatives...
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Friday, July 1, 2005
On May 16, 2005, a Dominican military truck stopped in front of the Francisco
del Rosario Sanchez High School in the northwest Dominican Republic (DR).
Soldiers jumped out and began to pull students out of the school courtyard and
onto the back of the truck...
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Thursday, June 30, 2005
WASHINGTON, USA (AFP): The free-trade pact with Central America and the
Dominican Republic cleared a major hurdle Wednesday with approval from a key US
Senate committee, setting the stage for a floor vote this week and a July
showdown in the House of Representatives...
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Leaders urge Dominican Republic congressmen to
finalize Congressional approval of DR-CAFTA
Thursday, June 30, 2005
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic: As hearings on the DR-Central American Free Trade Agreement with the United States (DR-CAFTA)
approach in the US house, its supporters in the Dominican Republic are stepping
up their lobbying efforts on the Dominican Congress to pass it into law before
it is debated in the US congress...
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Thursday, June 23, 2005
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic: This month the Government of the Dominican
Republic has announced the start of two important private development projects
for the Dominican Capital, Santo Domingo, that, if ever carried out as planned,
will definitely change the city’s face, constitute a major boost for tourism,
and have a major economic and employment impact upon the country as a whole...
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Thursday, June 16, 2005
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic: President Fernandez, of the Dominican
Republic, in a televised address to the nation Tuesday evening, said his
government would continue subsidizing propane gas for home and transport use,
basing his decision on the reasoning that “it is only now, when the economy
starts gaining some strength”...
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Monday, June 13, 2005
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic: After
several delays and postponements, the Dominican Revolutionary Party (PRD), the
Dominican Republic's main opposition force, was due to conduct its national
convention Sunday in order to elect a new president, secretary general and
organizing director, including as well as 21 of 30 vice-presidents, and some
70,000 other minor leadership posts...
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Thursday, June 9, 2005
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (Prensa Latina): Brazilian Foreign Minister Celso Amorin
confirmed here Wednesday possible negotiations to produce ethanol as an
alternative fuel...
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Thursday, April 21, 2005
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic: Several regional and international
track stars will gather in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic on Saturday 14
May for the Felix Sanchez Invitational, schedule for the Juan Pablo Duarte
Stadium at the Juan Pablo Duarte Olympic Center...
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Wednesday, April 20, 2005
MIAMI, USA: The pulse and fever of the people of the Dominican Republic is demonstrated in their passion for the merengue, their national dance. In honour of this sensual art form, the Dominican Republic hosts merengue
festivals every year during the last week of July and first week of August and
again in October...
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Wednesday, March 9, 2005
HIGUEY, Dominican Republic (AFP): As
officials began to bury fire-scarred bodies in communal graves, relatives of
the 134 victims of Monday's prison fire combed prison name lists and searched
among the scores of unidentified bodies left for family members...
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Tuesday, March 8, 2005
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AFP):
Fire raged through a prison in the Dominican Republic early Monday following a
dawn riot, killing at least 134 people and injuring 26 more, authorities said...
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Dominican Republic endorses Ambassador Ramdin for Assistant Secretary General of the OAS
Friday, February 25, 2005
 PARAMARIBO, Suriname: After Chile, Costa Rica and Nicaragua, the Dominican Republic became the fourth Latin American country to endorse Surinamese ambassador Albert Ramdin
for the position of assistant secretary general of the Organization of
American States (OAS). He has also received the unanimous endorsement of
CARICOM...
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Analysis: Dominican Republic's drug problem
Friday, February 4, 2005
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (UPI): Everything was going according to plan. The blue truck took off from somewhere in the south, toward a destination in the north. Its two occupants only stopped for 10 minutes in one of Quirino Ernesto Paulino
Castillo's businesses to discuss issues that could not be spoken about over the
telephone...
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Taiwan dismisses concerns over diplomatic
ties in Caribbean
Saturday, January 29, 2005
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AFP): Taiwan on Friday dismissed concerns over its diplomatic
ties with Haiti and Dominican Republic in the wake of their Caribbean neighbor
Grenada's recent defection to rival China...
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Canada quarantines two Caribbean flights
Thursday, January 27, 2005
REGINA, Canada (UPI): Canadian officials quarantined two flights from the
Dominican Republic over fears passengers were contaminated with the highly
contagious Norwalk virus...
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Spanish researchers to analyse purported
remains of Columbus in Dominican Republic
Monday, January 24, 2005
BARCELONA, Spain (AFP): Scientists from the University of Granada, deep in
southern Spain, announced this weekend that they will head to the Dominican
Republic next month to analyse human remains in Santo Domingo believed to be
those of Christopher Columbus...
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PADF/OAS strengthening Haitian-Dominican
relations along the border
Tuesday, January 18, 2005
WASHINGTON, USA: The Pan American Development Foundation (PADF), an affiliate
of the Organization of American States (OAS), is implementing an important new
initiative along the Haiti-Dominican Republic border that is designed to
strengthen ties between the two countries and improve living conditions...
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Malaria warning for Dominican Republic
Friday, January 7, 2005
ATLANTA, USA: Visitors traveling to some parts of the Dominican Republic should take the drug chloroquine
to protect themselves from a malaria outbreak, U.S. health officials said on
Thursday...
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Drug smuggler dies on flight from Dominican
Republic
Thursday, January 6, 2005
PARIS, France (AFP): An Italian woman trying to smuggle cocaine into Europe
died on a flight arriving at Paris when one of 77 latex bags filled with the
drug she had swallowed burst in her stomach, police said Wednesday...
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71 dead, 678 injured over holidays in
Dominican Republic
Wednesday, January 5, 2005
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AFP): Seventy-one people died and 678 were
wounded over the Christmas and New Year holidays in the Dominican Republic,
mostly from gunshots and traffic accidents, officials said Monday...
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