1999 – Page 214

The Central Bank of the Dominican Republic invites national and international investors to participate in a tender for the purchase of the Playa Grande tourism project in the province of Mar?a Trinidad S?nchez on the North Coast. The project has a hillside area reserved for the development of residential villas with an area of one …

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Ministry of Public Works construction workers are putting the final touches on the Quisqueya Ball Park this week. They say almost all is ready to host the Montreal Expos as they take on the New York Mets on the weekend of March 12-13 in Santo Domingo. The Dominican government spruced up the Quisqueya Ball Park …

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Heineken Live is a show that those who enjoy good jazz should not miss. The Altos de Chav?n 5,000-person amphitheater will be the stage for the likes of Taylor Dayne, No Mercy, Giovanni Hildalgo, Hilton Ruiz, Johnny Pacheco, Charlie Sepulveda, Juan Pablo Torres, Eddie Palmiere, Bacacha Tropical Jazz on Saturday, 27 March at 7 pm. …

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As promised, the many major pieces of legislation that did not receive final action in the last session of Congress were reintroduced yesterday amid promises from the leadership that all will be passed this year. Reintroduced were: the draft Monetary and Financial Code; the bill to create a General Health Law; the Export Promotion bill; …

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In interviews with the news dailies El Siglo and Listin Diario, Senate President Ram?n Alburquerque [Dominican Revolutionary Party (PRD) – Monte Plata] rejected President Fern?ndez’s call in his State of the Union address for work to begin on constitutional reform. He suggested that the nation had too many other things to work on at the …

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Three major business groups urged the Senate to stop delaying approval of international loans intended to help the country reconstruct after Hurricane Georges. Celso Marranzini of the National Council of Private Enterprise (CONEP), Andr?s Dauhajre of the National Union of Employers (UNE) and Ignacio M?ndez of the Association of Companies and Industries of Herrera (AEIH) …

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Customs put into effect as of yesterday the new lower tariffs on personal computers and related products. The changes were originally approved under Law 345-98 adopted last August, but did not take effect until now under General Norm 1-99. Under the measure, personal computers imported into the DR have had their tariffs dropped to 1.5% …

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A new poll conducted in late February by the news daily Listin Diario and the Spanish polling firm Sigma Dos shows that the political battle over controlling the Dominican Municipal League (LMD) has hurt the credibility of all the political actors involved. Asked who acted correctly during the LMD crisis, 1,200 Dominicans polled neither the …

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In the scramble to prove that the DR is getting tough on intellectual property piracy and thereby avoid U.S. trade sanctions, authorities yesterday closed two cable TV companies in La Vega – Cable Real and Visaldom – on charges that they were pirating satellite American and European TV signals. The Directorate-General of Telecommunications (DGT) is …

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Dominican industry and officials are also worried that widespread illegal copying of computer programs in the DR may bring Special 301 trade sanctions from the U.S. The National Office for Author’s Rights (ONDA), the body charged with enforcing copyright protection for software in the DR, has announced that it has seized thousands of illegal software …

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