Dolores Vicioso – Page 7224

The Fundacion Cutural de Rio San Juan proposes to build a museum in that city to tell the cultural origins of the northern region. The museum would take three years to build. The plans calls for the construction of five halls. One would be dedicated to archaeological discoveries. Another would be about ethnography, with the …

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The president of the Hotel & Restaurant Association, Ramon Prieto, said that among the changes to be incorporated into the tourism promotion bill are those that would favor the construction of small hotels and the renovation of existing hotels. The bill was recently passed by Congress but returned by the Executive Branch for modifications. Prieto …

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President Hipolito Mejia has declared 12 August the Day of Industrial Free Zones. At the same time he issued several decrees one of which honors Delta Brush Manufacturing as the first free zone industry in the DR. It was started in 1969 in the La Romana Free Zone, a venture developed by Charles Bluhdorn and …

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President Hipolito Mejia has described as foolish (“disparate”) the opinion of economist Ricardo French Davis of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (CEPAL). Davis says countries should only resort to sovereign bond placements in cases of life or death. On Thursday, chief economist of the World Bank Guillermo Perry also said that …

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El Siglo reports on a tender held by the government for the construction of the Northwest aqueduct, a project estimated to cost about US$160 million. The winning company, Norberto Odebrecht from Brazil, did not present the cost, the design nor explain how the project would be financed nor where its funding would come from. President …

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Smith-Enron Cogeneration, the principal supplier of power to the Cibao region, says its plant will remain shut off until it receives US$14.9 million from the state. Smith Enron in a paid advertisement in the press said that it will keep its Puerto Plata-based plant out of service until the payment is made. Smith Enron says …

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El Siglo newspaper reports that in the past two and a half years, at least 150 police officers have been accused of participating in drug trafficking, extortion, theft, assaults, aggression against judges, operation of bars and gangs dedicated to issuing false checks or credit card fraud.

23-year old Felix Sanchez, who will compete for the Dominican Republic in the 2003 Pan American Games, won the 400 meter hurdles in the CGU British Grand Prix 2001 held in London last weekend. At 47.95 seconds, he clocked the same time as Angelo Taylor, winner of the Olympic Games of Sydney who came in …

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