1998 – Page 11

Dr. Jos? Joaqu?n Puello was re-elected president of the Dominican Olympic Committee (COD). He defeated Milton Pinedo, president of the Federation of Sports Medicine with a vote 19-7 in his favor. Puello’s major accomplishment as president of the Dominican Olympic Committee has been to win the site of the Pan American Games for 2003. He …

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Sigma Dos poll commissioned by the List?n Diario shows that former President Joaqu?n Balaguer is the strongest candidate of the Partido Reformista Social Cristiano. An earlier Gallup poll commissioned by Hoy newspaper had showed that former Vice President Jacinto Peynado was by far a more preferred candidate. The Spanish Sigma Dos polling organization, nevertheless, found …

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Minister of Tourism Felix Jim?nez is advocating that the central government take charge of the maintenance of the areas adjacent to the Port of Santo Domingo. In 1998 several cruise ships docked there, but they are threatening to remove the city of Santo Domingo from their tours if a clean up is not carried out. …

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President Leonel Fern?ndez and Venezuelan President-elect Hugo Ch?vez agreed by telephone yesterday to establish an alliance that would serve as a bridge between South America and the Caribbean. The press department of the National Palace yesterday issued a brief statement indicating that Ch?vez had confirmed he would visit the DR prior to February and to …

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The Government of Colombia has invited President Leonel Fern?ndez to visit. Minister of Foreign Relations of Colombia Guillermo Fern?ndez Soto brought President Leonel Fern?ndez an official invitation from Colombian President Pastrana to visit Colombia. The minister said that the Colombian government recognizes the Dominican statesman for his leadership in the Caribbean. He said that Colombia …

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The Dominican Republic signed an economic and technical cooperation agreement with Cuba in Santo Domingo yesterday. Technical Secretary of the Presidency, engineer Tem?stocles Mont?s, signed for the DR. Cuba was represented by Ibrahim Ferradaz, Minister of Foreign Investment and Economic Cooperation who traveled to the DR on Sunday, 10 December accompanied by 10 other technicians. …

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To avoid Partido de la Liberaci?n Dominicana party affiliates from corrupting senators and deputies, the country’s leading opposition party, the Partido Revolucionario Dominicano (PRD)’s presiding board is recommending its members interrupt their work at Congress until after the election of the secretary general of the Dominican Municipal League. The PRD says that the government is …

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The peso continues to lose value to the dollar. Banks and exchange houses were offering from RD$15.40 to a high RD$15.95 on the dollar. Dollars were commanding RD$16.14 to RD$16.21 on the exchange markets.

Minister of Tourism F?lix Jim?nez would like to see the elimination of income tax on hotel investment in 11 provinces of the Northwest, Southeast and Southwest. The measure would also benefit mountain vacation resorts in the central province of La Vega. Southwestern provinces that would be included in a bill that will be presented to …

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Spokesman for the Police, Sim?n D?az said that several persons have been detained in regards to the murder of Lourdes Mayelin Crisp?n on 2:30 pm of Saturday by a stray bullet at the TGI American Bar of Naco. The Police is investigating all registered owners of black Toyota Lexus’s, the vehicle from which individuals fired …

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