1999 – Page 25

Marathon Franca defeated Vasco Da Gama, another Brazilian team to win first place in the Pan American Champion Club tournament that ended yesterday at the Juan Pablo Duarte Olympic Center. The event was televised by ESPN, but attracted very little Dominican public.

Toño Rosario, Al Jadaqui and Tribu del Sol are scheduled to play on Sunday during a concert schedule to tribute homage to Major League baseball players Sammy Sosa, Pedro Martínez, Juan Marichal and Felipe Rojas Alou. They will be honored with stars along the boulevard. The event starts at 6 pm and will be transmitted …

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Fernando Echavarría and La Familia André are back. Their show, not to be missed, with original and different merengue music and other contemporary beats is scheduled for 29 November at the Teatro La Fiesta of the Hotel Jaragua. For more information on the show call 221-1435, 412-5723 or 535-5272 (Ticket Express). The tickets for the …

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The Asociación Dominicana de Deportes Acuáticos announces the celebration of the First Speedboat Drag Race on 28 November 1999 at the Ozama River. The race can be viewed from the Avenida del Puerto. For more information, call 223-6767.

Technical meetings of ambassadors and ministers were held over the weekend to prepare the agenda for the II African, Caribbean and Pacific Summit of Heads of State and Government opening in Santo Domingo 25-26 November. The summit is held to establish a joint negotiating position regarding the successor agreement of the Lome IV treaty with …

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Ambassador Freddy Emam Zade, in charge of trade negotiations for the Dominican Republic, told El Siglo newspaper that ACP nations have felt the pressure from developed nations as these try to divide the bloc in their attempt to diminish the incidence of the African, Caribbean and Pacific nations in international organizations. He explained that whenever …

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"Urban Life in the Caribbean Region" is an inter-Caribbean exhibition that opens at the Palacio de Bellas Artes on occasion of the hosting of the II ACP Summit of Heads of State and Government. Cariforum sponsors the traveling exhibition. Three works of art from Barbados, Jamaica, Trinidad & Tobago, Antigua, Barbados, Bahamas, Dominica, Granada, Guyana, …

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Haitian and Dominican foreign ministers, Fritz Longchamps and Eduardo Latorre met in Havana during the 9th Iberoamerican Summit on 15 November and agreed that the directors of migration of both countries would meet in the frontier town of Jimaní at noon on Friday, 20 November. The meeting was to discuss how to better coordinate the …

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Coastal Petroleum Dominicana, an affiliate of Coastal Corporation, (www.coastalcorp.com), announced its new San Pedro de Macorís propane gas storage facility will be ready by the year’s end. The terminal for the uploading of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) includes 30 tanks with capacity for 2,325 barrels of gas, linked by eight-inch high tech pipelines. The new …

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VIII Encounter of Latin American and Caribbean feminists opens today in Juan Dolio. 1,500 women are participating in the event that will focus on the development of women in the region throughout the past recent decades.