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Air Jamaica Express links DR and Montego Bay

Air Jamaica began its operations to the DR yesterday with an inaugural flight from Montego Bay. Paul Monreira, president of the airline, announced the flight offers travelers connections to New York, Newark, Atlanta, Baltimore, Chicago, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Miami, Orlando and Ft. Lauderdale. The airline also flies to Cuba, Gran Cayman, Nassau, Canada and Europe. …

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Delta studies DR market

A spokesperson for Delta Air Lines said that it is not true that the airline will fly to the Dominican Republic in November, as announced by Minister of Tourism Ramon Alfredo Bordas and reported in El Caribe yesterday. Christine Frias says that the airline continues to study the market. (3 May 2001)

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Green light to controversial La Vega dam

President Hipolito Mejia announced the start this month of the construction on the Manabao-Bejucal-Tavera dam in the province of La Vega. The President had said in Taiwan during a recent visit that the dam would not be built. The construction is vehemently opposed by environmental and community groups in Jarabacoa that fear it will cause …

US is leading source of tourists to DR; Delta to fly here in November

Tourism Minister Ramon Alfredo Bordas said that last year the US surpassed Germany as the main single-country source of visitors. He said 632,000 US tourists visited in 2000. Most of the US tourists are coming to the Punta Cana area. Minister Bordas also said Delta Airlines will begin regular flights to the Dominican Republic in …

2001 News

Investigating Santiago's collapsed building

The Santiago District Attorney office and the National Department of Investigations (DNI) are in charge of an investigation into the collapse of a movie house under construction in Santiago. Seven people died inside the building after 10 pm on Saturday, 28 April. Construction engineer Horacio Salvador Alvarez said yesterday in a press conference that De …

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Alarming number of child pregnancies

A study carried out in 50 public schools in Santo Domingo in January showed that 160 girls aged 9-13 were pregnant, some of them in the sixth grade. The study, Riesgos en Adolescentes (Risks of Adolescents) was ordered by the Ministry of Education. Most of the girls that get pregnant abandon their studies.

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Public charity funds diverted to wages at City Government

El Siglo newspaper reveals that the City Government of Santo Domingo spent only RD$4.6 million of its RD$36.9 million public charity budget on actually helping destitute people (mostly the handicapped and elderly). Eighty-eight percent of the budget goes to pay monthly wages of staff affiliated with the PRD or to those who are doing the …

2001 News

Major works are truly paralyzed

President Mejia said on Monday that it is not true that public works have stopped due to budgetary constraints. But the Listin Diario newspaper reaffirms today that construction is not advancing on several major public works. The paper reports that the 56-km. Autovia del Este, the central library of the state university (UASD) and the …

2001 News

Dominicans not happy about government fund management

According to results of the Hamilton-Beattie poll carried out for Hoy newspaper, 50% of Dominicans feel the government is mismanaging its funds, 32% feel government management of funds is good, 9% say it is excellent and 9% said they do not know. The same study showed that 81% of Dominicans feel that taxes are necessary …

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Gallup poll shows 21 point drop in Mejia government popularity

The Mejia administration dropped 21 points in popularity from the February Rumbo Magazine-Gallup poll to the present poll. In February, 71% of Dominicans believed that the next three years of government would be good or so-so. Two months later, expectations for good government have dropped to 50%. Those who think it will be a bad …

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Dolores Vicioso – Page 7297

Air Jamaica Express links DR and Montego Bay

Delta studies DR market

Green light to controversial La Vega dam

US is leading source of tourists to DR; Delta to fly here in November

Investigating Santiago's collapsed building

Alarming number of child pregnancies

Public charity funds diverted to wages at City Government

Major works are truly paralyzed

Dominicans not happy about government fund management

Gallup poll shows 21 point drop in Mejia government popularity