1998 – Page 137

Michael Jordan confirmed to the Listín Diario, the leading Dominican daily, that he will visit Santo Domingo at the end of June. It is my pleasure to accept the invitation of the President of your country and my friend Sammy Sosa to visit, Jordan said in an exclusive interview with the Listín Diario after the …

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Karate champions from Canada, the US, Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Nicaragua, Venezuela, Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay, Brazil, Peru, Argentina, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Honduras, Bahamas, Trinidad & Tobago, have arrived to participate in the XII Karate Pan-American Games that open 1 May in Santiago de los Caballeros. Competitions will be held all throughout …

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The National Theater will celebrate its 25th anniversary with the presentation of La Traviata, the renown opera by Giuseppe Verdi, on 20, 22 and 24 August. The theater was inaugurated 25 years ago with the presentation of La Traviata. Natacha Sánchez, director of the National Theater made the announcement. La Traviata will be directed by …

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The governor of the Central Bank, Hector Valdez Albizu has reiterated the government will not devaluate the Dominican peso, but there has been a defacto devaluation. The official government rate to the dollar is RD$14.02 but only 22% of national exchange transactions are carried out at that rate. The dollar, stable at RD$14-US$1 during 1997, …

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President Leonel Fernández authorized the construction of the Puerto de Tortuguero Megaport, a free trade zone in the Bay of Ocoa, southern Azua province. Decree 150-98 creates the Puerto de Tortuguero with areas for light assembly manufacturing plants, service industries, warehousing, handling of merchandise. Inversur, S.A., is developing the project. The project will be built …

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Owners of dilapidated carros publicos, buses, minibuses, microbuses have cut a deal with the government whereby these will gradually be removed from main city streets. The Oficina Metropolitana de Servicios de Autobuses (OMSA), the new government division that operates the large buses that are circulating on the new transport corridors on main thoroughfares is in …

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Mayor of Santo Domingo Rafael Suberví Bonilla said that he has been assured that the government does not have plans to eliminate the recently-built Boulevard de la Churchill. The director of the Oficina Coordinadora y Fiscalizadora de Obras del Estado said that President Fernández does not share the opinion of engineer Felix Bautista opinion that …

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Luciano Pavarotti has invited Dominican orchestra director José Antonio Molina to direct his benefit concert, "Friends of Pavarotti" that will take place 9 June in Italy. Spice Girls, Vanesa Williams, Stevie Wonder, Bon Jovi and Nathalie Cole, Celine Dion, Floral Pagny, Trisch Yeanwood and many other renown performers will participate in the event. Molina made …

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Dr. Jose Francisco Peña Gomez, president of the Partido Revolucionario Dominicano and that party’s candidate to mayor for Santo Domingo, said that if he is elected mayor he will decentralize the government of the city. He said he would implement a similar program to which he carried out when mayor from 1982-1986. His priorities would …

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Speaking at the luncheon of the American Chamber of Commerce, Franklyn Almeyda, candidate to senator for the Partido de la Liberación Dominicana (PLD) advocated for better congressional and civic society relations with the Presidency. He said a ten-year national plan is necessary, and that the base for this would be the conclusions of the Diálogo …

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