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To celebrate its 85th anniversary, Texaco Caribbean will sponsor the presentation of the George Bizet opera "Carmen" at the National Theater. The opera will be performed 23, 25 and 27 June. The production is directed by Maestro Carlos Piantini.

Cinema fans are in for a treat mid year. From 9-18 July, the First Cinema Festival will take place in Santo Domingo. The Centro Cultural Hispanico, the cultural branch of the Spanish Embassy, said that several of the leading Spanish films will be presented, and several vanguard directors have been invited for the film festival. …

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Santo Domingo’s Hotel Jaragua Renaissance will host the Third Caribbean Hotel Investment and Tourism Conference, 18-20 April. (Note that this event follows the celebration in Santo Domingo of the II Summit of Heads of State and Government of the Caribbean with the visit of the presidents of Mexico, Colombia and most Caribbean Basin nations, including …

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New at the International Book Fair, that will be held in Santo Domingo 22 April through 2 May, is a poetry pavilion, a children’s area, an anthology of stories, and the participation of 26 authors from abroad. Some 203 publishing firms and 80 book stores are participating in the event organized by the government to …

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A new report on time sharing in the Caribbean to be released by RCI Consulting shows that resort timesharing continues to be one of the fastest-growing vacation and real estate industries in the region. There are 128 timeshare projects on 15 Caribbean islands, with 8,150 built timeshare units. Most of these are located in Aruba …

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According to the results from the 16-18 March Hoy-Hamilton & Staff poll of 1,800 Dominicans throughout the national territory, most Dominicans have a good perception of the Junta Central Electoral, the body in charge of organizing the national elections. 61% rated it as the government institution that is carrying out the best work in the …

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The Fern?ndez administration announced it would orient 70% of the RD$8,600 million budget for provincial public works and only 30% for works to be built in the capital city of Santo Domingo. The National District (Santo Domingo), which concentrates the most votes in presidential elections, usually receives the largest share of the government construction budget.

The Partido Revolucionario Dominicano is protesting that the government, through the National Treasury, has only delivered to municipalities 40% of the funding corresponding to the 4% of government revenues. This has affected more than 50,000 municipal employees that have not been paid in March. The PRD says the government is conspiring against the PRD, which …

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Judge Katia Miguelina Jim?nez sent back to the C?mara de Calificaci?n the dossier on the assassination of journalist Orlando Mart?nez. The judge ordered that the process start over because of irregularities in the presentation of the case. The Dominican judiciary also awaits the extradition from the US of former Air Force sergeant Mariano Dur?n Cabrera, …

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The Minister of Education, Ligia Amada Melo guaranteed that 18-year old Claubian Jean Jacques of Villa Altagracia, will not be expelled from his public school because of his lack of a birth certificate. The student made the headline in El Siglo yesterday because of the irony of his being honored by the government in February …

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