1999 – Page 209

Monsignor Francisco Jos? Arn?iz is regarded as the intellectual of the Catholic Church hierarchy, and sits along with President Leonel Fern?ndez and Monsignor Agripino N??ez Collado as arbiter during the ongoing talks among the nation’s three leading political parties taking place at the National Palace. Over the weekend, he criticized that the Legislative Branch has …

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The government will import 1,500 minibuses to serve passengers on feeder routes of the six main bus routes or corridors being installed. The 26-passenger minibuses will replace 2,300 dilapidated minibuses and microbuses that circulate today on city streets. The government plans to purchase the vehicles from the present bus operators/owners. The purchase price will serve …

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Airport authorities arrested 44-year old US citizen Hugh Dennis Carvel for trying to introduce a contraband of jewelry into the DR. Carvel was dressed as a US commercial airline pilot. The contraband was in his hand luggage. He was deported on the next plane out. During questioning he said he had been transporting merchandise to …

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Former Minister of the Armed Forces Constantino Matos Villanueva was arrested on Friday, 5 March after undergoing 10 hours of questioning by the judge Eduardo Sanchez Ortiz, who is in charge of the first phase of the case regarding the disappearance of professor Narciso Gonzalez. The questioning would continue today, 8 March. This is the …

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Dominicans awoke on Monday morning, 8 March to learn that the two missing teenage girls from Santiago had been found — dead. The girls were missing from 26 February when one left for her high school and the other to buy school supplies at a nearby store. The girls, described by friends and teachers as …

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Restaurant Neptuno, one of the most successful restaurant operations in the DR, is now offering Boca Chica tourists a sunset sail tour on board a replica of the Santa Maria caravel Christopher Columbus used on his first trip to the New World. The ship is 42 feet in length, and has capacity for 34 passengers. …

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Minister of Tourism Felix Jim?nez was present at the ground-breaking of the construction of 750 more rooms at the Bah?a Pr?ncipe Resort in Gaspar Hern?ndez, Mar?a Trinidad S?nchez province along the Northeast Coast of the DR. The 750 additional rooms will make the hotel the largest in the DR. It originally opened with 250 rooms …

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According to the Ministry of Tourism report presented to the National Congress last month, in 1998 some new 4,630 rooms entered into operation, a US$568 million investment made primarily by Spanish, Austrian, French, Italian and Canadian investors, in addition to Dominicans. The rooms were built in: Punta Cana: 1,945 rooms (Spanish and Dominican investment) Puerto …

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A Comission of Observers will be holding individual hearings with each of the three contenders to win the tender for the administration of several of the nation’s principal airports. The DR government seeks a partner who can administer the Las Americas (Santo Domingo), Mar?a Montez (Barahona), Arroyo Barril (Saman?) and Gregorio Luper?n (Puerto Plata) airports …

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The president of the Hotel & Restaurant Association, Rafael Blanco, interviewed at the International Tourism Bourse (ITB), the world’s largest travel fair held in Berlin, Germany, said that the Asian crisis will affect German travel to the DR. German tour operators are pressing Dominican hoteliers to further drop their prices alerting they would take their …

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