1999 – Page 228

In 1990, the DR sold US$5 million in exports to Haiti. In 1997, exports were up to USS$27 million. By year 1998, according to the Dominican Center for the Promotion of Exports (CEDOPEX), the DR was exporting over US$60 million. Registered exports go by way of the frontier Jiman? frontier point. But millions are traded …

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The Meli? hotel chain from Spain is investing US$8 million in the remodeling of the Hotel Meli? Santo Domingo, the List?n Diario reported. General manager Andre Gerondeau is overseeing the total remodeling of the hotel they operate in Santo Domingo. The remodelling calls for the total change of the fa?ade so that guests have a …

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II Santo Domingo Music Festival, directed by Maestro Phillippe Entremont, is scheduled to open at the National Theater of Santo Domingo on 10 March, concluding 20 March. Eight recitals are scheduled starring Edgar Nebolsin, The Canadian Brass, Shunsuke Sato, the Christopher O’Riley and Pablo Ziegler duo, Richard Stoltzman, Los Romeros and Anne Gastinel. The Festival …

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In today’s installment of the controlled release of results of a recent national poll, news daily Listin Diario reports that the Dominican Revolutionary Party (PRD) scored highest among voters claiming no party affiliation. Asked by Listin and Sigma Dos if the DR’s presidential elections were held today, which party would the respondent vote for, 46.0% …

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The Senate unanimously approved yesterday in second reading a bill that will prohibit the Government from slicing up public works projects into small chunks in order to avoid putting them up to open bidding. Under the bill proposed by Senator Milton Ray Guevara (PRD-Saman?), any project whose total value is over RD$3 million must be …

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Bulldozers began breaking ground last week on the construction of a new building to house the Supreme Court and Attorney-General’s Office and already dust is being kicked up. The Public Works Ministry started work on the building, to be constructed on the former site of the Agriculture Ministry in Centro de los Heroes, without soliciting …

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Amidst media speculation that the current extraordinary session of Congress would end without approval of the new Financial and Monetary Code, Senate President Ram?n Alburquerque (PRD-Monte Plata) insisted that the Senate would finish its work on the Code this week no matter what it took. If the Congress does not approve the Code in first …

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Lawyers for the PRD returned to the Supreme Court yesterday to re-file their demand against the election of Amable Aristy Castro to head the Dominican Municipal League (LMD). The PRD wants the Court to rule unconstitutional the process and steps taken to elect Aristy Castro and nullify his election. PRD lawyers had filed the same …

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The Technical Secretary of the Presidency, Tem?stocles Mont?s, announced this week the formal solicitation of bids for the construction of the first segment of the overhead tramway planned for Santo Domingo. Bids for the construction project will be accepted during March, and the winner will be announced in May so that work can begin this …

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The Directorate-General of Norms and Quality Systems (DIGENOR), the body charged with setting and monitoring production standards in the DR, released a study yesterday showing most bottled water sold in the DR meets acceptable sanitary production standards. DIGENOR Director-General Hugo Rivera said that the technical study showed that 73 of 89 registered bottlers of "purified" …

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