1998 – Page 28

The sole game of the Winter Professional Baseball Tournament scheduled for yesterday – a match between the Escogido Lions and the Northeast Giants, was rained out. The same two teams are scheduled to play tonight at Julian Javier Stadium in San Pedro de Macoris tonight at 8:00 pm. Also slated for tonight at 8:00 pm …

Read more…

The first session ever of the new Inter-American Network of Legislative Leaders was held in Boca Chica on Saturday. The Network is the creation of the Organization of American States (OAS) and the Washington-based group Inter-American Dialogue (IAD). The OAS-IAD project is designed to promote dialogue, exchange of ideas and experience, and cooperation among key …

Read more…

Central Bank Governor Héctor Valdez Albizu denied that the peso is falling against the dollar. The Governor insisted that in the above-board market the dollar-peso rate has remained stable, and that the Bank recently made available US$15 million to local banks to keep that way. "The movements higher appear in the unregulated market in the …

Read more…

The Inter-American Investment Corporation (IIC), an affiliate of the Washington-based Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), has granted the Banco Nacional de Crédito (Bancrédito) a US$20 million line of credit to support medium-sized firms in the DR’s tourism sector and in the free zones (zonas francas). The IIC will finance US$7.5 million of the amount directly, while …

Read more…

Dominican home-run king Sammy Sosa revealed upon his return to the DR on Friday that Japan has promised him to send 1,000 prefabricated houses to replace Dominican homes destroyed by Hurricane Georges. Sosa was recently in Japan for an exhibition tournament, where he captured the hearts of Japanese baseball fans. He used the occasion of …

Read more…

Ex-mayor of Santo Domingo, Rafael Suberví Bonilla, made it official on Friday: a team of his advisors and followers paid the RD$100,000 fee and registered him as an official contender for the Dominican Revolutionary Party’s (PRD) standard-bearer in the next presidential elections. He joins the ranks of Milagros Ortiz Bosch, the National Districtís Senator, Hipólito …

Read more…

The Director of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Louis Freeh, announced on Saturday that the FBI plans to open an office in Santo Domingo. Details remain sketchy; the FBI has yet to say when precisely the office will open, nor exactly what sort of work it will be doing. Freeh said that the …

Read more…

The president of the Association of Owners of Urban Transport and Tourism Buses in the city of Puerto Plata announced that 18 drivers’ organizations and unions will hold a two day protest strike tomorrow and Wednesday, November 24-25. Among other things, the drivers are demanding that 27 cars recently allowed on public routes be withdrawn, …

Read more…

A Dominican television documentary about Juan Bosch won the prestigious Emmy award on Saturday. "89 años de entrega" covers the life and works of Juan Bosch, writer, former Dominican President, past presidential candidate and founder of the Dominican Liberation Party (PLD). The documentary was produced by Fernando Hasbún and his wife Alicia Ortega. The documentary …

Read more…

The Eagles beat the Lions on Friday and the Giants on Sunday, making it four wins in a row and increasing to four games their lead over Licey in the Winter Professional Baseball Tournament. The Cibao Eagles beat the Escogido Lions on Friday 5-4; they topped the Northeast Giants 5-3 in a Sunday game at …

Read more…