2004 – Page 71

2004 News

Barge offers transport over Chavon

While efforts continue to restore a vehicular bridge over the Chavon River in order to provide a land link for La Romana and La Altagracia province, a barge is offering an alternative service. The Listin Diario reported that the ferry is charging RD$500 per car or pick-up truck. The ferry is not transporting cargo trucks. …

2004 News

Peso schizofrenia

The Dominican peso, which abruptly shot to a record two-year high of RD$27 to US$1 last week, lost out to the US currency and yesterday was being traded at RD$35.50 and RD$37 to US$1. Exchange banks said there was a scarcity of dollars. Meanwhile, Finance Minister Vicente Bengoa, as reported in Diario Libre, said that …

2004 News

Military have key role in people trafficking

A study conducted by the United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef) and the Faculty for Social Sciences (Flacso) reveals that around 6,000 minors a year are trafficked to the DR in complicity with Dominican and Haitian military members. The organizations say that most of the youths are brought by a relative, but many are victims of …

2004 News

Former Police chief on case of stolen vehicles

The former chief of the National Police, retired Major General Jaime Marte Martinez, classified the report that he was assigned 15 of the stolen vehicles recovered by the police as being false and full of lies. He said the story contains inconsistencies and irregularities and was the result of an investigational committee that never questioned …

2004 News

Focus on Baninter media in court

The former treasurer of Baninter (today Scotiabank), Manuel Guaroa Liranzo, is scheduled to appear next Friday in a court hearing to sustain a lawsuit he filed against the former president of the bank, Ramon Baez Figueroa. The Listin Diario reports that Liranzo was excluded from the allegations of fraud the Mejia government levied against Baninter. …

2004 News

Dominicans in the playoffs

Twenty-two Dominican players are participating in the Major League Baseball playoffs. The teams this year are the St. Louis Cardinals vs the Los Angels Dodgers; the Altanta Bravos vs the Houson Astros; New York Yankees vs Minnesota Twins; and Boston Red Sox vs Anaheim Angels. The players are Jose Offerman, Albert Pujols, Alex Rodriguez, Jose …

Go-ahead for Sans Souci/Malecon projects

President Leonel Fernandez granted a power of attorney to Public Works Minister Freddy Perez to discuss and approve the implementation of a mega-port tourism complex for the Sans Souci, the Eugenio Maria de Hostos park and the tourist terminal at Don Diego. The plans call for the construction of residential real estate, a marina, a …

More British tourists to come

While participating in a tour of ambassadors organized by the Association of Playa Dorada hotels over the weekend, British Ambassador Andy Ashcroft forecast that UK tourists to the DR should increase 15-20% this year, thereby exceeding 200,000 visitors. As reported in the Listin Diario, Ashcroft said that in 2003, some 170,000 tourists had visited the …

Gold for Secrets and Sunscape in DR

For the second consecutive year, Apple Vacations, a leading United States tour operator, recognized the Secrets Excellence Punta Cana and Sunscape Punta Cana Grand with its Golden Apple Award. Out of over 500 hotels that form part of the Apple Vacations program, these resorts are but a handful of quality properties that to earn this …

CBS highlights Casa de Campo as No. 1 Family Travel Spot

Laura Bagley, the editor of Travel & Leisure magazine, appeared on the CBS Morning Show on Saturday, 2 October to promote the publication?s new Fall edition of a Family Travel magazine. The magazine ranked their readers? favorite family destinations around the world and gave top honors to the Caribbean?s Casa de Campo in La Romana, …

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2004 – Page 71

Barge offers transport over Chavon

Peso schizofrenia

Military have key role in people trafficking

Former Police chief on case of stolen vehicles

Focus on Baninter media in court

Dominicans in the playoffs

Go-ahead for Sans Souci/Malecon projects

More British tourists to come

Gold for Secrets and Sunscape in DR

CBS highlights Casa de Campo as No. 1 Family Travel Spot