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Daily News Archive January 2002
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Thursday, 31 January 2002
  • Licey: Champion 2001-2002
  • A case of mistaken identity
  • Presidency office to manage bond money
  • Dominicans can fly charter
  • Guillo Perez and Candido Bido together with Pavarotti
  • American Eagle’s Barahona connection
  • Record highs for US dollar
  • Fuel savings offset lull in tourism revenues
  • Jorge Volpi coming for 2002 Book Fair
Wednesday, 30 January 2002
  • AMET at work
  • Learning from the Argentine crisis 
  • Senate president warns against more loans
  • Macroeconomic stability, regardless of who is in power
  • Using bonds money for social programs?
  • Government moves to detect fraud in fuel sales
  • Extradition treaty to be approved
  • US wants DR to hold tenders for major public works
  • Resignation of Nicaraguan consul to be accepted
  • Only 12% of Haitians living in DR have documentation
  • The most exciting final baseball series
Tuesday, 29 January 2002
  • 2.5%-3% GDP growth in 2001
  • AMET to remove street vendors
  • School assistance program resumes today
  • US$141 million loan for northwestern aqueduct
  • Honorary consul may be fired
  • Government not saving to pay off sovereign bonds
  • Economist says government needs to restrain spending
  • Visual pollution as politics takes hold of city
  • Better days for sugar industry in DR
  • Aguilas could become league champs today
Monday, 28 January 2002
  • Official rate to float
  • Government is main obstacle to exports
  • Foreign debt payments on schedule
  • Four key farming projects on hold
  • Didier Schuller is still here
  • President Mejia optimistic on alliances
  • Jaquez arrested, relatives say he is the wrong man
  • Buy your hands-free mobile phone adaptor now
  • Doctors don’t like controls
  • 91-year-old writer receives Literature Award
  • Social trip to Puerto Rico turns into scandal
  • Honorary consul suspected of money laundering
  • New Spanish ambassador
  • Lots of talk, little action
  • Airfare competition on Miami route
  • PhDs to debate the issues on new TV Show
  • The rising cost of VIP service
  • Rod Stewart booked for Altos de Chavon
  • Licey gives the Aguilas big battle
  • Lots happening in the DR
Friday, 25 January 2002
  • Balaguer says no to alliance with PRD
  • No report on use of sovereign bonds money yet
  • Kmart investment in DR is still on
  • Mayor short of money to pay garbage bills
  • Carlos Alberto Montaner on Haiti
  • Users complain of power bill increases despite long blackouts
  • TV show to provide new insight into the issues
  • Mondesi stars in opening of baseball finals
Thursday, 24 January 2002
  • Candelier gives in to influential unions?
  • US$181 million to build new dam
  • Contradictions over new highway deal
  • San Pedro port gets a start
  • Suspect in Senator's death could be in US
  • French fugitive left DR for Bahamas
  • Challenge to new police chief
  • Big projects to bring progress to Santiago
  • Tourism stats for Punta Cana
  • Handicraft Center for Bayahibe-Dominicus
  • Hertell advocates alternatives to all-inclusives
  • Taiwan ambassador decorated
  • Mexicana offers great fares to Miami
  • Floor nearly sold out in Pavarotti concert
  • Baseball finals calendar
Wednesday, 23 January 2002
  • President decorates five women who fought Trujillo
  • AMET regulates use of overpasses
  • Japanese to help Dominican fishing industry
  • 2,008 government posts
  • Russian-made helicopters for the Army?
  • FBI investigates Senator’s death
  • More details on use of sovereign bond money, please
  • Kmart bankruptcy expected to affect DR investment
  • All judges should retire at 75
  • Didier Schuller is missing
  • Mejia shrugs off financial burden of Pan Am Games
  • The evolution of Haiti in art
  • Biodiversity congress
  • Japanese art at the Museum of Dominican Man
  • Circus on the Malecon
  • Taiwan business event
  • Dominican rock show
  • Rubby Perez at the National Theater
  • Analyzing the future of the free zone industry
  • Estrellas eliminated
Tuesday, 22 January 2002
  • Bishop says corruption is worst enemy
  • President Mejia touchy about sovereign bonds
  • Don’t read the newspapers every day
  • President tells Leonel “Mind your own business.”
  • President relaunches his social program
  • From paquetazo to paquetico, says Leonel
  • Leonel Fernandez: new PLD President 
  • Money in circulation up 35% in 2001
  • Where did travel advertising funds go?
  • Banana exports up
  • French fugitive lived here
  • Dr. Benoit passes away
  • Placido Domingo booked for 16 April
  • A hole-in-one prizewinner
  • Vladimir Guerrero goes to bat for the Estrellas
Friday, 18 January 2002
  • New cars can wait to get inspection stickers
  • OMSA buses get their lanes back
  • Government takes another loan
  • Contradictions regarding RD$300 welfare program
  • Record decline in hotel occupancy
  • DR still does better than rest of Caribbean
  • Trade impasse with Costa Rica continues
  • Controversial privatization of highway
  • New York Times was wrong
  • Trade corridor sought for Haiti
  • It’s official, Codetel is Codetel
  • Bank statements by mobile phone
  • Martin Duran denies seeing skin color
  • Richard Clayderman to perform in Santo Domingo
  • The three tenors come to Santo Domingo?
  • Licey leaps to second place
Thursday, 17 January 2002
  • President Aristide in the DR
  • JCE offices in Miami and Spain
  • DR to coordinate ACP trade negotiations
  • Better system for vehicle inspections considered
  • PRD primary set for Sundays in February
  • Who did it? Osama bin Laden?
  • Business advertising down, government advertising up
  • Pavarotti at the National Theater
  • DR1 relaunches its Calendar Page
  • Aguilas maintain their lead
Wednesday, 16 January 2002
  • President of Haiti visits today
  • RD$40 million in unfair billing
  • Congressional agenda?
  • Child labor poll grim 
  • Use of sovereign bonds money
  • Freedom of speech case
  • Leaving Haiti up to the DR
  • Head of public medicine program seriously injured
  • Government corruption?
  • Scandal unfolds in Senator’s murder
  • XVI Juan Marichal Golf Classic
  • Estrellas tie with the Aguilas
Tuesday, 15 January 2002
  • Indotel releases new guidelines for claims
  • Why mothers welfare program was suspended
  • JCE judges disagree
  • Contesting a JCE decision
  • PLD warning: more new loans coming
  • More on the murder of Senator Gomez
  • Hubieres to mobilize “scrap iron” cars
  • Kent and Belmont cigarettes launched here
  • Clearance sales in Santo Domingo
  • Merengue man arrested for wearing army uniform
  • Whale-watching in Samana
  • The 21 January long weekend
  • Pan Am Games get new offices
  • Licey hangs on in baseball 
Monday, 14 January 2002
  • President Hipolito Mejia comments on judges
  • What happened to the Paquetazo Social?
  • School age illiteracy
  • Cibao airport opening now set for March
  • More Casandra Awards nominees
  • Aguilas vs. Estrellas in the baseball finals?
Friday, 11 January 2002
  • Drastic reduction in dangerous boat trips
  • Restructuring the Dominican police
  • Private jail for traffic violators
  • New senator for Santiago Rodriguez
  • More loans passed by the Senate
  • RD$5 billion borrowed from Dominican commercial banks
  • Warning against increased spending and borrowing
  • Haitian opposition protests Aristide’s visit
  • Winning a case against the power distributor
  • Casandra Awards nominations
  • Estrellas: No one can stop us
Thursday, 10 January 2002
  • North satellite to be built at Las Americas Airport
  • More aggressive role for Cedopex?
  • 6% salary increase for government employees
  • President Mejia visits Cuban ambassador 
  • Central Bank to intervene in exchange market
  • Caucedo Port gets okay
  • Police chief visits head of Supreme Court
  • Twice as many employees fired in 2001
  • Mejia to meet PRD president
  • JCE revokes decision on minority parties
  • Will Bush visit the DR in 2002?
  • The Estrellas take off
Wednesday, 9 January 2002
  • New police chief
  • Candelier returns to AMET
  • New date for Aristide’s visit
  • Work advancing on Santiago-Navarette
  • Attorney General appoints commission
  • Donate your organs
  • Debating the urban renewal
  • Clash within the PRD continues
  • Placido Domingo & Dominican songs
  • Rodeo in Punta Cana
  • Aguilas lose their first game in six
Tuesday, 8 January 2002
  • Candelier transferred to AMET
  • Senators retaliate?
  • Constitutional reform is closed case for PRSC
  • JCE announces RD$20 million advertising campaign
  • Violating rules to issue pardons
  • Join the US Army
  • Semi-finals continue today
  • Finally, you can get a dr1 link!
Monday, 7 January 2002
  • Life returning to normal after the holidays
  • President Aristide arrives 14 January
  • Year-end inflation: 4.38% 
  • One paycheck only for government employees
  • Check your money
  • Back problems or depression?
  • Natural gas to fuel Los Minas plants
  • Aguilas maintain their lead
Friday, 4 January 2002
  • Supreme Court annuls constitutional reform law
  • Census now set for July
  • New roads commission to prepare 10-year plan
  • Looking for place to send Guy Philippe
  • Minister of Tourism disputes lack of governmental support for Tourism
  • CAB says it has not been partial to American Eagle
  • More dollar transactions go to the free market
  • Synchronizing the DR trade negotiating team
  • More on the case of the pardoned drug dealer
  • 2002 Central American and Caribbean Games events to be held here
  • Licey and Aguilas continue to lead baseball semi-finals
Thursday, 3 January 2002
  • President disputes lack of government support to tourism
  • AA must have good connections in DR
  • AES says 2002 will be a good year for power sector
  • Santo Domingo Stock Exchange in 2001
  • The 2002 business challenge
  • Unemployment up in 2001
  • Significant reduction in death toll over the holidays
  • Rethinking prison term pardons
  • People like the new look of DR1
  • Aguilas and Licey win their first games
Wednesday, 2 January 2002
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