1998 – Page 111

The president of the Asociación de Empresas Industriales de Herrera, Ignacio Méndez called abusive and not understandable the increases in the electricity bill being levied by the Corporación Dominicana de Electricidad (CDE), the state electricity utility, on industrial consumers. He said they are hard to understand in these times when the cost of petroleum is …

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Howard Johnson International of the United States in alliance with Corporación Hotelera Boyce of Mexico will operate the 170-room Hotel Macorix, in San Pedro de Macorís, 15 minutes from Juan Dolio Beach, half an hour from La Romana and an hour from the capital city of Santo Domingo. The hotel was recently refurbished and new …

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Windsurfers of the world will again gather this year in Cabarete, Puerto Plata for the Cabarete Race Week. The competition opens Friday, 19 June at the windy North Coast beach and will last through Friday, 26 June. This is the second year of the Cabarete Race Week, an amateur event held at a world class …

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Important advances were made in the negotiations that are leading to the signing of the free trade agreement between the DR and English-Speaking Caribbean Community this year. In the sixth round of negotiations held in Miami, Florida over the weekend, Caricom agreed to include free zone exports in the free trade agreement. The DR agreed …

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Minister of Foreign Affairs Eduardo Latorre said that agreements on tourism, health, agriculture, environment and commerce and migration will be discussed during the meeting of President of Haiti Rene Preval and President Leonel Fernández in Port-au-Prince this 18-21 June. There have been contradictions over whether the migration topic, the most controversial, will be part of …

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Samuel Conde y Asociados, the contractors, announced they have begun the construction of the tunnel underneath the Abraham Lincoln Avenue at the intersection with 27 de Febrero Avenue. The Abraham Lincoln tunnel is one of three the government is building, along with overpasses, to resolve the traffic bottlenecks at the intersections of Abraham Lincoln, Winston …

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The Junta Central Electoral has begun to issue new identity cards to Dominicans and foreigners resident in the Dominican Republic. The "cedulas" are issued immediately if no changes are needed in status, name, address or other data on the card. Nine centers are open in Santo Domingo for the issuing of the new cards. Dates …

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Chief of the Police Major General Jose Aníbal Sanz Jiminián believes it is "very difficult" to regenerate the Dominicans that are deported from the United States after serving time for crimes committed there. The chief of the police explained that most of the persons who have been booked for committing crimes in recent years have …

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Dr. Joaquín Balaguer favored the restructuring of the board of directors of his party, the Partido Reformista Social Cristiano. President of the Senate Amable Aristy Castro said last week that the party should change its directors. The former President of the Republic said that a convention would soon be held to discuss the presidential candidate …

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The head of the Roman Catholic Church in the Dominican Republic, Archbishop of Santo Domingo, Cardinal Nicolas de Jesús López Rodríguez favors the establishment of an age limit of 75 years for judges. The Supreme Court seeks that retirement be an option exercised voluntarily by the judges. The Supreme Court of Justice opposes limiting the …

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