1997 – Page 6

The engineering firm of REM and Giscosa Caribe Impermeabilizaciones, which has been granted the contract to repair the 12,000 square meter roof of the Palacio de los Deportes Virgilio Travieso Soto in the Juan Pablo Duarte Olympic Center, has guaranteed their work will last 20 years. The main basketball court of the country has been …

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President Leonel Fernández toured Barahona, Galván, Cabral and other small towns of the Southwest, the most impoverished region, as per findings of a recent study carried out by the government. He promised a crusade against the main problems affecting the nation, which would mostly favor the most impoverished sectors. The President said that his visit …

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The Minister of Public Works Jaime Duran announced that the Autopista Duarte, the main highway of the nation, that crosses the country from South to North, will be completed by February 1998. The highway was built at a cost of RD$6,000 million. He said only remaining is a road stretch in La Vega province.

The Corporación Dominicana de Electricidad chose the British-U.S. energy consortium, Scotia Energy-Congentrix to build a combined cycle power plant capable of generating 250,000 kilowatts to be located in San Pedro de Macorís. The firms won the tender held recently with the participation of 17 firms. Ansaldo Energia and ABB Energy Ventures/Endesa were the runner-ups of …

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Minister of Tourism Felix Jiménez forecast that for the November-April winter tourism season some 450,000 cruise ship passengers could dock in Santo Domingo. He said that if all these passengers choose to come on land they could spend up to RD$360 million, mostly benefiting areas adjacent to the Port of Santo Domingo. He said that …

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It all appears that Rafael Corporán, the TV producer-former mayor of Santo Domingo, and child program star Isha and her husband-producer Angel Puello, have made up. Corporán was responsible for the creation of Isha, who left her popular TV program after marrying Angel Puello, responsible for her TV show, a Corporán production.

The leading batter of the Dominican Winter Baseball League, 26-year old José Oliva, died from concussions received Monday at dawn in a car crash along the Santo Domingo-San Cristóbal highway. He was driving his convertible sports car Toyota Supra, accompanied by a Puerto Rican woman, Esmeralda Cruz. At the time of his death, he was …

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The Chamber of Deputies approved the National Budget for 1998 for a total of RD$38,000 million. The Reformistas, who had opposed the passage of the bill because the government had not included several of their requests – a chapter for RD$500 million to pay arrears with Balaguer government contractors and other chapters for social entities …

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The Partido Revolucionario Dominicano has chosen to hold a new election in Santo Domingo to select the mayor of the city, after a committee determined there were irregularities in the 14 December primary. The election will take place during the third week of January and the members of the 142 voting centers where irregularities occurred …

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The Senate approved an increase in taxes paid by casinos operating in the Dominican Republic. The bill, which will now pass to the Executive Branch for its conversion into law, establishes a single tax on operations of casinos, based on geographic location and number of gambling tables. The funds will be used for health, sport …

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