1999 – Page 10

"Navidad 99" is the celebration of Christmas organized by the Ayuntamiento de Santo Domingo (city municipality), Secretaría de Turismo (ministry of tourism), Comisión de Monumentos (historic monuments commission), Oficina de Patrimonio Cultural (office of cultural heritage), and the Patronato de la Ciudad Colonial (board of the colonial city). Activities start today, Wednesday, 1 December and …

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African, Caribbean, Asian and European Union ministers, diplomats and officials will meet again in early January to finalize the new post 2000 Europe/ACP arrangement. The revised trade, aid and other provisions need to be in force by the end of February 2000 when Lomé IV Convention expires. The negotiators met 8/9 December in Brussels where …

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The Partido Revolucionario Dominicano, the leading opposition party, is pressing the Executive Branch to increase allotments for several institutions. The PRD is requesting that the Executive Branch increase allotments as follows: Judicial Branch, RD$200 million Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo, RD$225 million Junta Central Electoral, RD$153 million Chamber of Deputies (lower house of Congress), RD$20 …

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President Fernandez said during a conference at the University of Miami that his main frustration in office has been that he has not been able to implement the economic reforms package. The economic reforms package has not been passed by Congress, which is controlled by the PRD opposition party. He also criticized that Congress has …

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The Ministry of Public Works announced it will complete the highway leading from the western side of Haina Port to Km. 14 of the Duarte Highway (the main thoroughfare that connects the North and the South of the DR). Construction will start in January. The highway will help reduce the amount of cargo trucks that …

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The Partido de la Liberación Dominicana organized a successful mega political congregation to close the first phase of the presidential campaign of Danilo Medina. President Leonel Fernández and Vice President Jaime David Fernández were present at the political meeting that took place at the head of the Francisco del Rosario Sánchez Bridge (Puente de la …

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A statistical brief published by Hoy newspaper says that 39.8% (47.1% in Santo Domingo) of Dominicans have their own mode of transportation, be it a car, pick-up, motorcycle or bicycle. The same survey shows that nationwide, 9% get around using their own cars, 4.6% using their own motorcycles, 52.2% uses public buses, 12% use multi-fare …

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A former director of the Instituto Nacional de Recursos Hidraulicos (Indrhi), Augusto Rodríguez Gallart commented on a TV program that a new drain needs to be urgently built into the Sabana Yegua Dam, that is located in the southwest, and is fed by the Yaque del Sur River. He said that in its present state, …

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Father José Núñez of the Parroquia Domingo Savio said that many police agents stationed in the slum areas of La Ciénaga, Los Guandules, 27 de Febrero and Agua Dulce are accomplices of drug traffickers operating at points there. He said that the people in the area do not denounce the drug traffickers for fear of …

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Caribe Tours, a leading bus company, suspended its bus services nationwide yesterday to protest the murder of its chief of security. On Sunday, Caribe Tours buses transported friends and relatives to the funeral of Colonel Pedro Pablo Simé Jorge at the Cristo Redentor Cemetery in Santo Domingo. Simé died when Jimaní transport union members, that …

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