1998 – Page 156

The president of the National Hotel & Restaurant Association and the president of the Tourism Promotion Council (CPT) attributed to merely internal business motives the stir in the British press caused by the British tour operator, Airtours. Airtours announced it would no longer be selling several Dominican properties due to reasons of hygiene at these. …

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Hoy political analyst Gustavo Olivo criticized the poor content of the campaigns of those aspiring to congressional and municipal posts in the 16 May elections. He said that the opposition has based its campaign on denouncing the government for using government resources to back the PLD candidates. "The candidates seem to be all from the …

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The chief trade agreement negotiator for the Dominican Republic, Deputy Minister Frederic Emam-Zade said that negotiations are advanced for the signing of the free trade agreement with Central America during a presidential summit in Santo Domingo on 26 April. Negotiators have just returned from the round of discussions held in Guatemala City from 23-27 March. …

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Cristina Saralegui told the Spanish-language division of CNN television that she would investigate reports that her show presents fake dramas. CNN said that it is not the first time that the show is denounced for impersonations. Recently, the impersonations have presented Dominicans in demeaning situations. Nuria en el 9, a local investigative reporting television show, …

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If you work at the "Huacal" government offices building in Gazcue you are in good physical shape. If you are just visiting, be mentally prepared to go up many flights of stairs. The building that houses 15 floors of government offices and where hundreds of Dominicans work and thousands go for government services has only …

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President Leonel Fernández watched as the Comisión de la Reforma de la Empresa Pública, the government organization in charge of privatization, formally began pre-qualifying the companies that will participate in the tender to choose companies that will be investing in the privatization of the Corporación Dominicana de Electricidad (CDE), the state electricity utility, as per …

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Press reports presented the case of a little girl who tired of being sexually harassed by one of her professors, garnered the support of a group of other girls who were affected by the same situation, and together denounced the professor, seminarist Marcelino Guaba to Father Ricardo Arias, director of the Emma Balaguer Vallejo school …

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Oficina Metropolitana de Servicios de Autobuses (OMSA), engineer Ignacio Ditrén announced that a semi-express bus route will operate on the 27 de Febrero corridor as of next week. Instead of the 49 stops made by the OMSA buses so far, the express buses will make 12 stops. The express service will be attractive to those …

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Hoteles Catalonia chose the Dominican Republic’s East Coast for its first investment in tourism outside of Spain. The Spanish hotel chain that operates 25 hotels in Barcelona, Madrid, Sevilla, Mallorca, Tenerife and Spain and has been in business for over 20 years, is building a 2,000 hotel room complex in the area of Cabeza de …

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American Airlines operates 29 flights a day from the Dominican Republic to the Miami and New York in the United States, and to Puerto Rico. The airline transported 1,900,000 passengers in 1997, or 60% of all regular flight passengers.