1998 – Page 188

Amidst the worsening of the energy supply due to the rain and wind storm of Tuesday, the state electricity utility received the first four power plants of five power plants that together will generate 170,000 kilowatts. It was said that the government had contracted another turbogas of 100,000 kilowatts from the same French consortium, GEC-Alsthom. …

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Santo Domingo is hosting the Latin American Forum on Government Reform and Modernization this weekend. Participating are directors of regional organizations and former statesmen. In Santo Domingo for the event are former president Luis Herrera Campins of Venezuela, former president Rodrigo Borja of Ecuador; former president Rodrigo Carazo of Costa Rica and former president Vinicio …

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Press coverage continues into the case of the telecommunications bill. Legal advisor to the Senate, Alberto Valenzuela de los Santos, after meeting with Angel Castillo, assistant to the Attorney General, told the press that the telecommunications bill was altered after it was sent to the office of the president of the Senate, Amable Aristy Castro. …

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Eighty show business writers, members of Acroarte, may vote tomorrow, Saturday, for the winner of the "El Soberano," award of the Cassandra show business awards ceremony, the most important in the Dominican Republic. The three strongest candidates to win the award are all merengue music performers. Milly Quezada, would be recognized for her successful return …

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President Leonel Fernández again invited leader of opposition party, the Partido Revolucionario Dominicano, Dr. José Francisco Peña Gómez, to participate in the National Dialogue, the series of talks the President is hosting all around the nation to gather a consensus as to the direction the nation should take into the 21st century. President Fernández invited …

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Dr. José Francisco Peña Gómez, in an eight page letter to President Leonel Fernández, commented that the government of President Fernández has not yet learned who’s who in the Dominican Republic. He said that this explains the serious errors, moves and countermoves, measures and countermeasures of the government, especially in regards to the performance of …

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President Leonel Fernández visited the widow of Juana Dionisio Infante, 29-year old Civil Defense volunteer who died while assisting flood victims caused by torrential rains early this week in his impoverished Manganagua neighborhood. The carpenter had a reputation of always being ready to help others in his community. He is survived by his wife, four-year …

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The Partido Reformista Social Cristiano (PRSC) will hold its primaries to elect the candidates for the Santo Domingo municipal and congressional posts this Sunday, 8 February, as originally programmed. Johnny Jones, of the organizing committee, said that four Reformistas aspire to the senator position; there are five candidates for mayor; and over 100 aspiring to …

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The announcement that the Central Bank would inject an additional US$40 million into the commercial banking exchange market caused the peso to increase in value in relation to the U.S. dollar. Banks are now offering the dollar for RD$14.40 and RD$14.50, down from RD$14.65 earlier this week. Banks continue to buy dollars at RD$13.95-RD$14.00.

The mayor of Santo Domingo, Rafael Suberví Bonilla, honored Peter O’Malley, president of the Los Angeles Dodgers, recognizing him as a distinguished visitor of the city. Peter O’Malley said the distinction was the greatest honor he had received in his life as it came from the Dominican people, for whom he cared so much. He …

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