1998 – Page 72

Johnny Ventura, the most popular merengue orchestra band leader of all times, was sworn in as mayor of Santo Domingo. The widow of former PRD leader José Francisco Peña Gómez, Peggy Cabral was sworn in as vice mayor. In his first speech as mayor, Ventura said that top priorities of his administration would be to …

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President Leonel Fernández said on Saturday, on occasion of celebrating the second year anniversary of the PLD government, that in the DR there is independence of the branches of the state. He ensured during the meeting with PLD leaders held at the Club Mauricio Báez that all state enterprises would be privatized by the end …

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TV producer Freddy Beras Goico commemorated the 25th year of his popular Sunday TV program, El Gordo de la Semana by presenting live Spanish singer Julio Iglesias and many other renown Latin American and Dominican stars. These included Lissette Alvarez, Willie Chirino, Raul Vale, Danny Rivera, Chichí Peralta and Grupo Yarumba. During last Sunday’s show, …

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Dominican Juana Arrendel won the gold medal in high jump at the Central American and Caribbean Sports Games taking place in Maracaibo, Venezuela. She jumped 1.90 meters to win her first gold. Nicke Gibson of Trinidad & Tobago and Nora Lusson of Cuba. This is the fifth gold the DR has won in the Games. …

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Sammy Sosa hit his 47th home run to tie the record of most home runs in a Major League season hit by a Latin American. The record is shared by Dominican George Bell, Puerto Rican Juan González and Venezuelan Andrés Galarraga. George Bell had set the record in 1987 with the Toronto Blue Jays. Sosa …

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The Chamber of Deputies approved loan projects for US$160 million yesterday. These had been approved by the Senate the day before. The loan contracts were approved in a session that took place from 7 to 9 pm. The president of the Chamber of Deputies waited from 11 am for the necessary quorum. During the session, …

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Will the president of the Chamber of Deputies, Hector Rafael Peguero Méndez, PRD-Independencia, win over the sufficient deputies to be re-elected as president of the Chamber of Deputies on Sunday? Will the hard-line positions adopted by the PRD board divide the nation’s leading opposition party? So far, the party’s board has expelled dissident Peguero Méndez …

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Orlando Gil, political commentator of El Siglo newspaper, speculates that with the late Dr. José Francisco Peña Gómez gone from the PRD, there could be a reshuffling of the affiliations of several senators. He mentions senator Fernando Alvarez Bogaert of the Unión Democrática, Ginette Bournigal, PRD-Puerto Plata and Bernardo Alemán, PRD-Monte Cristi could become PRSC …

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President Leonel Fernández appointed a Special Commission to complete the process to choose a strategic partner for the exploitation of the sulfide ore deposits of Rosario Dominicana. Proven sulfide ore reserves are estimated at more than 100 million tons, which could generate an estimated US$2 billion durin the well over 30 years life span of …

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The acting president of the Partido Reformista Social Cristiano, Donald Reid Cabral complained that the government signed in March of this year a contract that exempts the company operating the Cayman Power Barge I from the payment of import duties, makes the state responsible for supplying and paying for the fuel to be used by …

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