1998 – Page 30

They are not up yet for sale, but there are already rumors that only the RD$5,000 tickets are left. The Listín Diario, in a show business column by Ramón Almánzar, says that there are more people waiting to grab the tickets than there will be tickets available. This is the concert of the decade. For …

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The Cibao Eagles beat the Northeast Giants 4-3 at Cibao Stadium in Santiago last night. The first-place Eagles will play the Escogido Lions tonight at 8 pm in Quisqueya Stadium in Santo Domingo, while the Giants go to Julian Javier Stadium in San Pedro de Macoris to play the second-place Licey Tigers tonight at 8 …

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U.S. First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton is scheduled to arrive at around 11 pm tonight for a 36-hour visit to the Dominican Republic. She will spend the night in Santo Domingo at the residence of the United States Embassy. The following morning she will visit the Center for Family Integration (CIF) and then meet at …

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In his presentation last night to the Energy Conference of Latin America and the Caribbean (Enerlac ’98), President Leonel Fernández revealed many of the key details about how the privatization of the Dominican Electric Corporation (CDE) will be conducted. Enerlac ’98 is a conference being held all this week at the auditorium of the Central …

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President Leonel Fernández sent to Congress yesterday his tariff and tax reform bill. The President contends that significant tax increases are needed in order to counterbalance expected revenue losses due to tariff cuts and reforms agreed to by the RD in free trade agreements with Central America and the Caribbean Common Market (CARICOM). Currently the …

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A delegation from the Supreme Court (SCJ) visited the Senate yesterday to deliver to Congress the message that it cannot complete its mission of modernizing and restoring credibility to the Dominican justice system if does not recieve the full RD$960 million budget it originally requested. The SCJ delegation, led by first substitute for the SCJ …

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The Reformista Party (PRSC) block in the Chamber of Deputies submitted yesterday a bill to rename the Las Americas Highway after Dr. José Francisco Peña Gómez, the recently-deceased leader of the Dominican Revolutionary Party (PRD), former presidential candidate and ex-mayor of Santo Domingo. The bill was submitted by Deputies Máximo Castro Silverio and Ramón Rogelio …

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Dr. Máximo Beras Goico, a 61-year old psychiatrist known to many Dominicans because of his radio and television advice show "El siquiatra en su hogar" (Psychiatry in Your Home), died suddenly yesterday afternoon of a heart attack. The 61-year old psychiatrist was leaving his clinic and entering his car when the attack occured. He fell, …

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The Director of the Metropolitan Transit Authority (AMET), engineer Hamlet Hermann, revealed yesterday that the entity is currently operating with a RD$30 million deficit and that it has asked for a line of credit for that amount from the Banco de Reservas. Herman explained that the ideal annual budget for AMET for it to complete …

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The National Drug Control Department (DNCD) reports that in the first 10 months of 1998 it has seized more narcotics and arrested more people for drug trafficking than in the entire year of 1997. Some 1,400 kilos of drugs, mostly cocaine and crack, have been seized so far. 2,515 people have been arrested for violating …

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