Dolores Vicioso – Page 7147

El Siglo, the first color Dominican newspaper, will no longer publish after 12 years in print. Its last edition came out today. The newspaper first appeared on 3 April 1989. It is owned by the same financial holding company that last year purchased the Listín Diario, the newspaper with the largest paid circulation in the …

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Chichi Peralta won a Latin Grammy Award yesterday for Best Merengue Album. His second CD, De Vuelta al Barrio, followed up on his very successful first CD, Pa’ Otro La’o (Caïmán Records America Inc.) For his biography, see http://www.worldmusicportal.com/Artists/Dominican/chichi_peralta.htm#Biography or the record company’s page at http://www.caiman.com/chichiperalta/index.shtml Three Dominican performers were nominated in the Second Latin …

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The Listín Diario newspaper explains the government’s dilemma regarding the 2002 National Budget. Sectors within the government want to establish a RD$70 billion budget, an increase of RD$5 billion over this year’s budget. Originally the government had said the budget would be RD$65 billion, the same as in 2001 to take into account the fact …

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The Dominican Republic has asked the World Trade Organization to allow free zone industries to maintain tax exemptions until the year 2018, instead of until 2005 as established in one of the draft proposals to be presented at the 9-13 November WTO meeting in Qatar. Originally, free zone exemptions would have ended on 31 December …

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The president of the Central Electoral Board (JCE) Manuel Ramon Morel Cerda said yesterday that there is no time to include the election of members of the Constitutional Assembly in the May 2002 election. Those members would be in charge of modifying the constitution. Morel Cerda says the 2002 election is complicated enough with the …

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Economists Jaime Aristy Escuder and Andres Dauhajre feel the administrator of the CDE César Sanchez and the Electricity Superintendent Jose Ovalles are to blame for high power rates consumers pay in the DR. Aristy accuses them of favoring the interests of the power companies over those of consumers. He criticized the Madrid Agreement signed on …

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Security staff at Las Americas International Airport confiscated 51,000 contraband watches yesterday. Chief of security Colonel Nelson Jose Florentino said authorities at the airport suspect the watches were illegally brought into the country to avoid paying taxes. The cargo arrived from Panama on a Copa airline flight in nine boxes that were found inside containers …

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Mary home decorations and furniture store. 19 October-3 November. Up to 50% off. Studio Hb, Boss. One week left. 40% off. Marcel’s shoe store. Through 11 November. Codetel. Calls to US and Puerto Rico RD$3.99 a minute from 10 pm to 6 am from home phones. Tommy Hilfiger store at Plaza Central. 50% off. Caribu …

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Dominican athlete Claudine Garcia Albizu is ranked seventh in world women’s professional racquetball (see http://www.ladiesproracquetball.com/rankings.htm). She leaves today for the US to participate in several major tournaments in Colorado Springs, Colorado; Memphis, Tennessee; Saskatoon, Canada and Denver, Colorado. So far she has placed among the top eight in all professional events she has participated in. …

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The Washington Post dedicates a feature in its Sunday newspaper to Michele Jimenez, a 22-year old Dominican danger who is now a principal dancer of the Washington Ballet. The dancer stars in the company’s new production of "Carmen," which Artistic Director Septime Webre has choreographed especially for her. Jimenez was discovered by Lorraine Spiegler, of …

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