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-The Dominican Republic has gone resort-crazy in the last decade and that’s not good news for budget travelers — or those who like a touch of Dominican culture with their suntan. -The Carter Center has called for a joint effort to eliminate two mosquito-borne diseases,** [|**malaria**] **and** [|**lymphatic**] [|**filariasis**]**, from their last foothold in the Caribbean: the island of Hispaniola. -Haiti and the Dominican Republic split the island down the middle. Haiti is the hemisphere’s poorest country and has been roiled by political unrest, gang fighting and food riots. -But the diseases cannot be eliminated unless both countries work**  **together, and other islands are affected because malaria has been exported from Hispaniola to Jamaica and the Bahamas in the last two years. -That impacts tourist revenues, plus there’s the cost of people who are too sick to work,” said Dr. Donald R. Hopkins, chairman of the International Task Force for Disease Eradication, which is based at the Carter Center. -Malaria**  **kills, especially children and pregnant women; lymphatic filariasis, better known as “elephantiasis,” causes grotesque** [|**swelling**] **of the legs and scrotum that leaves victims miserable and with difficulty walking. -Different mosquito species transmit each disease, but a drive incorporating nets, insecticides and cheap medicines could eliminate both, Dr. Hopkins said.** -Junot Díaz's fiction is propelled by its attention to the energetic hybridity of American life. His debut, //Drown//, a collection of stories, dealt with questions of identity and belonging in the lives of his narrators, many of whom were young Dominicans living in New York or New Jersey. At first glance, //The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao//, his long-awaited first novel, appears to be a classic //bildungsroman//: the story of a charming Dominican-American boy who grows up to be an overweight, lonely nerd more intimate with //The Lord of the Rings// than with the social rings in his high school. But early on, the reader realizes that //The Brief Wondrous Life// is equally a story about the depredations of dictatorship and a powerful examination of the nature of authority.****-Santo Domingo .- President Leonel Fernández yesterday accused the private sector have failed in managing the privatization of electricity companies, while he defended the negotiations undertaken by the government to sell 49% of the shares of the Dominican Petroleum Refinery (Refidomsa) to the government of Venezuela.****- At a luncheon with executives and media representatives, the president said: "The State proceeded to the capitalization of the companies, but what happened to the private sector failed."**
 * -Santo Domingo .- More than 155.000 quarter of high school students are invited today to the first call for national testing standard.
 * “Haiti could do more,” he added. “We want to get the countries together on the border so they can see how aggressive the Dominican Republic is about this.”**
 * -As a start, the center is asking the two nations to cooperatively tackle ma** **laria in two towns facing each other across the Massacre River Bridge: Dajabón, Dominican Republic, and Ouanaminthe, Haiti.
 * -Treasury Secretary of the Dominican Republic and chairman of the National Bank of Development Economic and Social (BNDES) of Brazil yesterday signed a financing contract for $ 48 million for the project corridor Duarte.**
 * || **-Santo Domingo .- A-infectious outbreak erupted in the neonatal intensive care area of the Robert Reid Cabral Children's Hospital would have caused the deaths of at least six babies in the last week, revealed sources from the hospital yesterday.** ||


 * -Santo Domingo .- The internal litis Social Christian Reformist Party (PRSC) for the invitation to two events on Sunday arrived yesterday to the House of contentious the Central Electoral Board (JCE) with a lawsuit to challenge the call to primary managerial organized José Osvaldo Leger, submitted by three members of the Executive Committee**