1999 – Page 222

The Dominican Republic’s Office for Promotion of Investment and the US Department of Commerce are jointly sponsoring the First US-Caribbean Trade & Investment Forum, scheduled for March 16-18, 1999 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. This event will bring together regional and US business and government leaders in two days of conference sessions on telecommunications, electronic …

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Atna Resources Ltd. of Vancouver, Canada reports that the company has commenced a 2,000 meter drill program on the San Antonio I Concession, Dominican Republic. The 7-10 hole program will follow-up recent favorable geological, geophysical and geochemical surveys and be centered over a 600 by 6,000 meter gold, copper, lead, silver and barium soil anomaly. …

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Brugal rum is sponsoring the following big band orchestras to play at the Avenida del Puerto in the Colonial City, starting at 9 pm:Monday, 22 February: Sin Fronteras Tuesday, 23 February: V?ctor Roque y la Gran Manzana Wednesday, 24 February: Manol? y La Banda del Truco Thursday, 25 February: Banda X Friday, 26 February: Parada …

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Dominican cyclist Jos? Guzm?n won the second stage of the Vuelta Independencia, the most important cycling event held in the DR every year. He completed the 116 kilometers of the route Santo Domingo-Boca Chica-San Pedro de Macoris-La Romana in two hours, 52 minutes and 35 seconds. The DR is in first place of the event, …

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In today’s installment of Listin Diario’s slow trickle of results from its recent poll conducted with the Spanish firm Sigma Dos, PRD party faithful were asked who they would vote for in primaries to decide the Party’s candidate for the year 2000 presidential elections. The results show a nine-point gain in the lead for former …

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The President of the Dominican Revolutionary Party (PRD), Enmanuel Esquea Guerrero, indicated yesterday that the PRD will send its formal response to President Leonel Fern?ndez’s Wednesday letter rejecting PRD’s preconditions for entering into a political dialogue with the government. As with PRD’s Tuesday letter to Fern?ndez responding to the President’s invitation to enter into a …

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Have a Dominican family member, friend or loved one awaiting word on their application for a U.S. residency visa? Let them know about the new service to be offered by the U.S. Consulate in Santo Domingo beginning March 1st. As of that date the approximately 50,000 residence visa applicants that the consulate deals with can …

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The Congress closed out its extraordinary session yesterday, leaving a long list of important legislation uncompleted. Most of these measures will have to be formally reintroduced when the new session of Congress is opened on Independence Day, February 27th. As such, they will have to go through a new round of hearings, committee reports and …

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The Senate yesterday passed an amendment to Law 98-97 that would empower the Sports Ministry (SEDEFIR) to force the Professional Baseball League to give full participation rights to the Puerto Plata Dolphins in the Winter Baseball Tournament. So far the League has resisted authorizing the Dolphins to play in the Tournament. Although Law 98-97 called …

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Dominican officials announced yesterday that they will take steps to prevent coastal marine pollution caused by ships. The announcement was made at the closing of an international Forum on the subject held in Santo Domingo under the sponsorship of the London-based International Maritime Organization (IMO), the United Nations specialized body charged with shipping and marine …

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