The law firm of Russin, Vecchi & Heredia Bonetti has announced the Dominican Week it sponsors every year in the United States will take place 22 September to 4 October. The event that promotes investment, business, and culture is in its seventh year. Activities will be held this year in Ponce and San Juan, Puerto Rico; Jacksonville and Miami, Florida; Washington, D.C.; South Orange in New Jersey and New York City. Dr. Luis Heredia Bonetti, promoter of the event, said that in Ponce, an exhibition of photographs commemorating the 500 years of Santo Domingo will be shown, and Architect Eugenio Pérez Montás will confer on historic aspects of the city. In Jacksonville and Miami, a video on contemporary Dominican art and the archaeological findings on the Taino culture will be shown. Dominican university rectors will travel to Washington for meetings on future cooperation programs with Georgetown, George Washington, American Howard, Catholic and other Washington universities. In the University of Seton Hall in New Jersey, the Dominican government will present its privatization program for Dominican state enterprises at the university’s business school. As part of Dominican Week activities, a conference on migration, deportation and extradition will take place at the John Hopkins University in Maryland. Likewise, events will be held at the Bankers Club in Puerto Rico; the University of Jacksonville; and the World Trade Center in Miami and the US Chamber of Commerce in Washington.
