2003 – Page 25

The Aguilas Cibaenas have won 10 straight games as they maintain their leadership of the Dominican Winter Professional Baseball Championship. The team is five games ahead of the Gigantes of San Francisco de Macoris and the Licey of Santo Domingo. Next in the baseball standing are the Estrellas of San Pedro de Macoris, who rank …

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The Dominican Republic received US$677 million in direct foreign investment, according to reports in several papers. Danilo del Rosario, the director of the Dominican Investment Center, told the press that as of June the Central Bank had registered US$339.5 million in finalized investments, another US$181.9 million that was “in process,” and a further US$155.2 million …

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Canadian company Unigold promotes its Dominican Republic business as what it’s all about, on its website at http://www.unigoldinc.com In its annual report, the company highlights that it began operations on 1 January 2003 and was established for the primary purpose of exploring, discovering and developing gold deposits on its 81,000 hectares of property held in …

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President Hipolito Mejia promised banana growers a RD$150-million line of credit at the Agriculture Bank (Bagricola) to restore the croplands destroyed by the flooding of the Yaque River. Torrential downpours in the northern section of the Dominican Republic produced flooding along all of the major rivers. The Yuna and the Yaque rivers were estimated to …

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