1998 – Page 2

Sara L. Steig, coordinator-international communications for Northwest Airlines says that the airline has restarted its winter schedule last week. Northwest is now offering nonstop service each Saturday between Minneapolis/St. Paul and Puerto Plata, on the North Coast of the Dominican Republic. The flight is scheduled to operate until April 3. The timing and flight numbers …

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The Dominican Republic is in a position to fill the empty slots left by banana exporters in Honduras and Nicaragua where banana crops were devastated by Hurricane Mitch. While in the DR, Hurricane Georges caused much damage to crops, one of the primary areas where bananas are grown, the Northwest, was unaffected by Hurricane Georges. …

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AMET announced that OMSA buses will only have exclusive right of way to the 27 de Febrero Expressway lane marked with a rhombus from the Avenida Luper?n to the Calle Leopoldo Navarro. After there, all lanes are open to all kinds of traffic. This stretch is part of the 27 de Febrero Expressway route that …

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US baseball National League Most Valuable Player Sammy Sosa, Dominican crooner Lope Balaguer, US baseball Hall of Famer Juan Marichal, father of the merengue Luis Alberti and legendary humorist Paco Escribano were chosen by the Fundaci?n Bulevar de las Estrellas to receive stars with their names along the Winston Churchill boulevard. This is the second …

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Ram?n de Jes?s Victoria Molina, accused by the Police of the death of 28 year old Lourdes Mayerling Crisp?n Rosario by a stray bullet while at TGI American Bar in Naco early morning of 12 December, says he is innocent and is coordinating with his lawyer to turn himself in to the District Attorney. He …

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Juan Manuel Molin? Rodr?guez and Mario Jos? Redondo Llenas, the two upper middle class university students sentenced to 30 years for the assassination of 12 year old Jos? Rafael Llenas were transferred back to the Najayo jail from the La Victoria penitentiary. The inmates had been sent to La Victoria after negative public opinion reaction …

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The today director of the Department of Forests, Radham?s Lora Salcedo realized a lifetime dream, and this week received the visit of his alma mater University of Cornell forestry experts that visited on occasion of the formal start of operation of the Center for Bioclimatic and Genetic Studies of the Pinus Occidentalis. The Pinus Occidentalis …

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The heads of the three leading political parties, Enmanuel Esquea Guerrero and Milagros Ortiz Bosch for the Partido Revolucionario Dominicano, Alejandrina Germ?n for the Partido de la Liberaci?n Dominicana and Mario Read Vittini of the Partido Reformista Social Cristiano said they support the proposal made by three Catholic Church priests that the political parties participate …

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The Dominican Municipal League approved sending to Congress a bill to increase money assigned from the national budget to city governments to 10% of the total up from 4% . The league will elect a new secretary general as of 26 January. The leading contenders for the post are Julio Mar??ez for the PRD, and …

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Fathers Luis Rosario, Rogelio Cruz and Rumaldo Peralta, of three slum area neighborhoods, proposed that politicians turn their political campaigns into blitzes to teach all Dominicans to read and write. Recently, Cardinal Nicol?s L?pez Rodr?guez said that Dominicans are sick and tired of the bickering of politicians. Monsignor Agripino N??ez Collado, the nation’s leading arbiter …

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