President Fernandez to proclaim new Constitution next month
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Santo Domingo.– President Leonel Fernandez will
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Fernandez taps commission to review new vehicle taxes
Dominican Today (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
SANTO DOMINGO. - President Leonel Fernandez designated a commission to review the taxes new vehicles pay to enter the country, a measure adopted after a more than one hour-long meeting with vehicle importers in the National Palace.
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Dominican Government officials seek the needy's votes with cash
Dominican Today (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
MOCA, Dominican Republic.- President Leonel Fernandez yesterday toured communities in this region to supervise the reconstruction of streets and highways and inaugurate a correctional facility, activities marred when some ruling PLD party leaders party running for elected posts and government officials handed out money in yellow envelopes to the hungry throngs.
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Insulza agrees with Fernandez on the OAS's weakness
Dominican Today (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
SANTO DOMINGO. - Organization of American States (OAS) Secretary General Jose Miguel Insulza today agreed with statements by president Leonel Fernandez on the multilateral organisms’ incapacity to confront situations such as the coup in Honduras.
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Fernandez supervises new works in Santiago
Dominican Today (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Santiago.- President Leonel Fernandez yesterday cut the ribbon for a water treatment plant and a cafeteria for people of low-income, two of a group of works expected to jumpstart the city’s economy.
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Honduras coup ridicules international community, Dominican leaders says
Dominican Today (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
Santo Domingo. - President Leonel Fernandez on Wednesday said the fact that Roberto Micheletti is still in power in Honduras, four months after the coup which deposed Manuel Zelaya, is proof the international organisms have become nonfunctional.
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With its highs and lows, Dominicans have a new Constitution
Dominican Today (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
SANTO DOMINGO.- With the expected spin of legal pundits and which Assembly president Reinaldo Pared called one of the best Constitutions in the last few years, last night concluded the second round of debates for its reform submitted by president Leonel Fernandez, which included proposals gathered during popular consultations and the commission of jurists who drafted the text.
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President Leonel Fernandez “responds” symbolically to the letter of Mr. Luis Fayad
Dominican Today (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
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Fernandez cuts ribbon on 30MW power plant
Dominican Today (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
Pimentel, Dominican Republic. - President Leonel Fernandez and power sector officials headed the ribbon cutting for the expansion of the electrical complex “Electricidad de Santiago” (Laesa), which will add around 30 megawatts to the system, for a total production of 60 megawatts.
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Fernandez to cut ribbon of 60MW power plant in northern town
Dominican Today (Free subscription) | 10/13/2009
Santo Domingo.- The executive vice president of the of State-owned power companies announced the ribbon cutting for a 60 megawatt power plant in the town Pimentel, Duarte province (north), in a ceremony headed by president Leonel Fernandez today.
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Fernandez orders probe of US$68M dam’s alleged ballooned costs
Dominican Today (Free subscription) | 10/13/2009
Santo Domingo. - President Leonel Fernandez yesterday ordered an investigation into the alleged overvaluation in the bidding to design and build the Monte Grande Dam of around US$68 million, just two days after Ethics Commission president Marino Vinicio Castillo’s (Vincho) denouncement.
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Fernandez to break ground for long awaited US$272M Coral highway
Dominican Today (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
SANTO DOMINGO.- Groundbreaking for the long awaited Coral highway to be built at a cost of US$272 million will be headed by president Leonel Fernandez at 11 a.m. Friday, next to the Punta Cana International Airport (east).
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Former CDEEE employees vow protests if not reinstated
Dominican Today (Free subscription) | 10/07/2009
Santo Domingo. – The employees recently laid off from the State-owned power companies (CDEEE) asked president Leonel Fernandez and ruling PLD party general secretary Reinaldo Pared to get them reinstated, or they’ll begin protests starting Friday.
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Lawmakers ban consecutive presidential re-election
Dominican Today (Free subscription) | 10/07/2009
SANTO DOMINGO.- The Constitution Revisory Assembly ratified without debate, the ban on consecutive presidential re-election, as approved in the first vote, and as president Leonel Fernandez and opposition PRD party president Miguel Vargas agreed in June.
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Dominican Government receives credentials of 6 new ambassadors
Dominican Today (Free subscription) | 10/06/2009
Santo Domingo.- President Leonel Fernandez received the credentials of six new ambassadors designated in the Dominican Republic, in separate ceremonies which began at 11 a.m. and concluded at 1:30 p.m.