1996News

Power cuts return

Nothing is new. The electricity shortage in the Dominican Republic is far from over. In the past four years, there has been a de facto privatization of the generation of power in the Dominican Republic in response to the reluctance of the government to invest in power stations. More than 40% of the electricity generated …

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1996News

Banco de Reservas in clear

The Dominican Association of Banks has published a paid advertisement in the dailies indicating that the statements made by the General Controller of the Republic, Víctor Grimaldi, on a Sunday television program, clears the Banco de Reservas de la República Dominicana, and confirms that there has been no robbery nor fraud involving the Dominican Republic …

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1996 Travel News ArchiveTravel

New flights by Continental Airlines

Last week, Continental Airlines announced its new flights from the United States to Latin America and Japan. These will be non-stop flights from Newark, New Jersey, to Panama and Guayaquil, Ecuador. The new flights will provide excellent connections for other Latin American destinations. Recently Continental began non-stop flights to Lima, Peru and to Bogotá, Colombia. …

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1996News

Public vehicles without identification plaques will be impounded

The director of the Oficina Técnica de Transporte Terrestre (OTT), Federico González Aviles, has warned that all public transport vehicles that do not carry identification plaques with the drivers’ photograph will be impounded by the police with immediate effect. The plaques, implemented last November, are designed to increase passenger safety by preventing “unknown” drivers from …

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1996News

Escaped drug trafficker did not have exit restriction

The convicted Venezuelan drug-trafficker, Cesar Simon Abreu Suarez, whose escape from jail has constituted a well-publicized scandal in the news media, did not have an exit restriction, according to the director of the Immigrations Department, Vitelio Mejia Ortiz. Unnamed sources in Immigration told the newspaper El Nacional that when the news of Mr. Abreu Suarez’s …

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