1999 – Page 17

Donald Reid Cabral, a former Minister of Foreign Relations, and a prominent Dominican businessman alerted that the PLD government is borrowing from local banks placing a major burden on the next government. [A previous PRSC government left major debts for the PLD government, but these were with individual contractors, not banks. The PRD government left …

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Minister of Education Ligia Amada Melo spoke at the graduation of 178 inmates from the Najayo Public Jail in San Cristóbal. Sixty-eight of those who graduated were taught to read and write. The others took electricity, economics, informatics, sewing, hair-styling courses. Minister Melo announced the opening of a TV education program to prepare high school …

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The National Police returned three year old Irene Fernández to her parents yesterday, as per a report in Hoy newspaper. Her parents had denounced to the National Police and to the media in the DR that the little girl who lives in La Caleta, a slum town next to Boca Chica tourism resort area, was …

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Expo Herrera is the largest industrial trade exhibition held every year at the Feria Ganadera exhibition grounds. More than 200 companies participate in the week long event that began 30 November and ends 5 December, from 9 am to 10 pm. Aside from the industrial exhibitions and discounted sales of company goods, the fair organizers …

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"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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Dominican Professional Winter Baseball League’s All Stars Game will be held 12 December. In it the best players of the Santo Domingo city teams, the Licey and the Escogido, will match the best players of the interior provincial teams – Pollos, Estrellas and the Aguilas. The game will be held at the Quisqueya Ball Park …

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Manny Mota, the former star Los Angeles Dodgers player, is bringing together popular music figures and baseball stars for a benefit softball game. First Classic of Celebrities Manny Mota will take place Wednesday, 8 December at the Quisqueya Ball Park. Among the expected players are Fernando Villalona, Kinito Mendez, Jose Canseco, Sammy Sosa, Pedro Martinez, …

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The Dominican Republic, which presides the African, Caribbean and Pacific group of nations, requested before the World Trade Organization Ministerial meeting in Seattle the elimination of subsidies to agriculture by developed countries, and special and differential treatment for the developing economies. ACP nations are seeking a waiver so that the European Union can maintain the …

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With 20 days to go before the official start of winter, residents in the DR, especially in Santo Domingo and Santiago, are dusting off their sweaters and jackets as temperatures drop from the 90s and 80s (30s and 20s Celsius) to the 70s-60s (20s and teens Celsius). Last night winds whistled the trees and morning …

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Roberto Saladín, the new Dominican ambassador to the United States, told the Listín Diario which will be his priorities. These are: 1. Approval by the US Congress of the textile parity bill. 2. Maintain cooperation in regards to drug trafficking and money laundering, harmonization of DR laws with agreements signed with the World Trade Organization, …

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